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… January 23, 2018 Research Findings Lifting the veil on ‘valence,’ brain study reveals roots of desire, dislike The … of neurons that assign good or bad feelings , or “valence,” to experience. Learning to associate pleasure with … called the basolateral amygdala, the researchers show how valence-processing circuitry is organized and how key neurons …

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… realized that the BLA not only endowed memories with their valence of good or bad feeling, but also that potentially … uniquely expressed the protein Ppp1r1b encoded positive valence, and cells in the anterior that uniquely expressed Rspo encoded negative valence. The study showed that these populations drove …

… associations of aversive or rewarding feelings , or “valence,” with memories. The study was conducted by Xiangyu … showed that Ppp1r1b-expressing neurons encode rewarding valence and compete with distinct Rspo2-expressing neurons in the BLA that encode negative valence. In the new study, Zhang, Kim and Tonegawa set out to …