Ventral striatum
- Plate: roof plate (Aether)
- Sector: pallium (Ego)
- Zone: striatal
- Parent: striatum
- Concepts: Gender, Justice, Alcoholism, Gender, Humor, Narcissism, Promises, Delusion, Psychosis, Mother, Psychopathy, Power, Envy, Schadenfreude, Retaliation
Archetypes
Left: Lilith
The ventral striatum is generally viewed in neuroscience as the ‘reward and pleasure center’, but in neuromythography we call attention to its role in what world religions have historically regarded as ‘evil’ (Western) or ‘disorder’ (Eastern). Reward, pleasure, and evil are not incompatible interpretations.
Right: Lucifer
The left ventral striatum is distinguished by activation in sexual, pain, empathy, social stress, and schadenfreude scenarios. This is why it is assigned to the female archetype Lilith.
The right ventral striatum is distinguished by acquisition in acquisitive, justice, dishonesty, and resistance scenarios. This is why it is assigned to the male archetype Lucifer.
Synonyms: VS, Nacc, NAc, nucleus accumbens
When popular science talks about dopamine (Samsara), they are really talking about dopamine’s effects upon the ventral striatum, which interpret tonic dopamine signals to anticipate and motivate reward-seeking. Pleasure itself is related to mu opioid (Voluptas) receptors in the ventral striatum that are activated by beta-endorphin (Euphoria).
Next time someone talks to you about “dopamine hits” please refer them to this website.
Neighborhood
Children
Nacc core (Mammon), Nacc shell ([?]), ventral putamen (Menoitios/Thrasos)
Remote Entrances
LDTg (Oneroi), ZI (Fenrir), BNSTov (Pan), BNSTfu (APPEASE), A2 (NA) (SICK TO STOMACH), LC (Ajnana), BLA (PRESENT VALUE COMPARISON)
Remote Exits
parastrial nucleus (FEMALE SEX DRIVE), parvofox nucleus (GIGGLING), LH (Wolverine), 9mdp (Zeus), 8BM (Aedos)
Energies
Opioids: Dynorphin-B, Nociceptin (Tantalus)
Sex hormones: Aromatase (Anima)
Enkephalins: Met-enkephalin (Dione)
Receivers
Opioid: KOR (Odin), DOR (Euthymia), MOR (Voluptus)
Vasotocin: v1a (Morrigan), v1b (Mordred) OTR (Tara)
Dopamine: D1 (Elpis), D2 (Ponos)
Serotonin: 5-HT1b (Sophrosyne) 5-HT1F, 5-HT4 (Plane), 5-HT6 (Dakshinamurthy)
Other: CCK2 (Phobos)
References
| Significance | Link |
|---|---|
| Ventral striatum drives retribution, DLPFC drove restraint. | An eye for an eye? Neural correlates of retribution and forgiveness. |
| Delusional psychotic patient activated the ventral striatum. | Activation of the motivation-related ventral striatum during delusional experience |
| GIving advice gives people a sense of power. It also activates the ventral striatum. | Advice Giving: A Subtle Pathway to Power |
| Alcohol cravings may be initiated in right ventral striatum of the brain | Alcohol cravings may be initiated in right ventral striatum of the brain |
| Alcohol-associated stimuli activate the ventral striatum in abstinent alcoholics | Alcohol-associated stimuli activate the ventral striatum in abstinent alcoholics |
| Ventral striatum-10d/10vd/10rd functional connectivity predicts teen social problems. | Altered ventral striatal–medial prefrontal cortex resting-state connectivity mediates adolescent social problems after early institutional care | Development and Psychopathology | Cambridge Core |
| Seeing another in pain aberrantly activated the ventral striatum in psychopaths. | An fMRI study of affective perspective taking in individuals with psychopathy: imagining another in pain does not evoke empathy |
| Becoming a mother reduces the ventral striatum. | Becoming a mother entails anatomical changes in the ventral striatum of the human brain that facilitate its responsiveness to offspring cues - PubMed |
| The ventral striatum is behind cravings in internet gaming disorder. | Craving behavioral intervention for internet gaming disorder: Remediation of functional connectivity of the ventral striatum | Request PDF |
| nhanced default mode network connectivity with ventral striatum in subthreshold depression individuals. | Enhanced default mode network connectivity with ventral striatum in subthreshold depression individuals - ScienceDirect |
| To reacquire equilibrium after exposure to negative images, men do less reappraisal, downregulate the amygdala more, and engage the ventral striatum less, than women. | Gender Differences in Emotion Regulation: An fMRI Study of Cognitive Reappraisal |
| activation in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) and ventral striatum brain regions during procedural justice evaluation is associated with offer rejection in females, but not in males. | Gender Differences in Justice Evaluations: Evidence From fMRI |
| Pathological gambling was associated with larger right ventral striatum and prefrontal cortex. | Higher volume of ventral striatum and right prefrontal cortex in pathological gambling. - PubMed - NCBI |
| The self-fulfilling prophecy that people don't like you, and then getting feedback that they don't like you, causes anxiety. And this is mediated by left ventral striatum. | I Knew You Weren’t Going to Like Me! Neural Response to Accurately Predicting Rejection Is Associated With Anxiety and Depression |
| Individuals interested in politics showed greater activation in the amygdala and the ventral striatum (ventral putamen) relative to individuals uninterested in politics when reading political opinions in accordance with their own views. | Interest in politics modulates neural activity in the amygdala and ventral striatum. - PubMed - NCBI |
| Left amygdala activation to visual sexual stimuli in men. | Men and women differ in amygdala response to visual sexual stimuli | Nature Neuroscience |
| Narcissism is a striatum that is undersupervised by the frontal cortex. | Narcissism is associated with weakened frontostriatal connectivity: a DTI study |
| Threatening people with accusations of hypocrisy engaged 8BM. | Neural correlates of cognitive dissonance and choice-induced preference change |
| An overview of the connections of the ventral striatum. | Neuroanatomy of Reward: A View from the Ventral Striatum - Neurobiology of Sensation and Reward - NCBI Bookshelf |
| The ventral striatum was only active when the subject’s advice led to the advisee winning, and not when the advisee won based on the confederate’s advice. | Reflected glory and failure: the role of the medial prefrontal cortex and ventral striatum in self vs other relevance during advice-giving outcomes |
| Stress gives the ventral striatum a negative attitude. | Stress increases aversive prediction error signal in the ventral striatum | PNAS |
| Stress encourages cocaine addiction by releasing dynorphin in ventral striatum to reduce serotonin. | Stress produces aversion and potentiates cocaine reward by releasing endogenous dynorphins in the ventral striatum to locally stimulate serotonin reuptake. - Abstract - Europe PMC |
| The right ventral striatum leads us to dishonesty. | The Neural Circuitry of a Broken Promise |
| Blasphemy reaction recruits right 9mvp, right IFSp, left p9-46v, bilateral p10p, bilateral PFm, and right ventral striatum. | The Neural Correlates of Religious and Nonreligious Belief |
| Nacc activation predicts retaliatory aggression in both the lab and real-world. | The pleasure of revenge: retaliatory aggression arises from a neural imbalance toward reward |
| The ventral striatum mediates ingroup favoritism. Overriding this to donate to the outgroup required concentration (p24), honor (8BM), and perspective (PGp). | The ties that bind: Group membership shapes the neural correlates of in-group favoritism |
| Envy and schadenfreude come from the ventral striatum (Lucifer) coupled to p32pr (Tiamat). | When Your Gain Is My Pain and Your Pain Is My Gain: Neural Correlates of Envy and Schadenfreude |
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