{"id":153795,"date":"2022-12-29T01:23:20","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T07:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/good-and-bad-feelings-for-brain-stem-serotonin"},"modified":"2022-12-29T01:23:20","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T07:23:20","slug":"good-and-bad-feelings-for-brain-stem-serotonin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/good-and-bad-feelings-for-brain-stem-serotonin","title":{"rendered":"Good and bad feelings for brain stem serotonin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/good-and-bad-feelings-for-brain-stem-serotonin.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New insights into the opposing actions of serotonin-producing nerve fibers in mice could lead to drugs for treating addiction and major depression.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists in Japan have identified a nerve pathway involved in the processing of rewarding and distressing stimuli and situations in mice.<\/p>\n<p>The new pathway, originating in a bundle of <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/brain\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">brain<\/a> stem nerve fibers called the median raphe <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/nucleus\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">nucleus<\/a>, acts in opposition to a previously identified reward\/aversion pathway that originates in the nearby dorsal raphe nucleus. The findings, published by scientists at Hokkaido University and Kyoto University with their colleagues in the journal <i>Nature Communications<\/i>, could have implications for developing drug treatments for various mental disorders, including addiction and <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/major+depression\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">major depression<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New insights into the opposing actions of serotonin-producing nerve fibers in mice could lead to drugs for treating addiction and major depression. Scientists in Japan have identified a nerve pathway involved in the processing of rewarding and distressing stimuli and situations in mice. The new pathway, originating in a bundle of brain stem nerve fibers [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}