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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2015 Dec 17;233(2):163–186. doi: 10.1007/s00213-015-4151-3

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

Subregional distinctions in the VTA. Coronal sections are arranged from anterior (−4.20) to posterior (−7.10) from bregma. The division between anterior and posterior VTA is drawn between the interpeduncular nucleus and the interpeduncular fossa. PFR (red), parafasciculus retroflexus area; PBP (blue), parabrachial pigmented area; PIF (purple), parainterfascicular nucleus; PN (green), paranigral nucleus; VTT (brown), ventral tegmental tail; midline nuclei (yellow); IF, interfascicular nucleus; RLi, rostral linear nucleus; CLi, caudal linear nucleus (Color figure online)