The Mesolimbic dopamine pathway plays an important role in the reinforcing and addictive properties of drugs like nicotine.
Dopamine is kind of neurotransmitter and also a hormone and has many roles.
These mesolimbic pathways help in transferring dopamine in areas of the body. The mesolimbic dopamine pathways help in transmitting dopamine from ventral tegmental area to the nucleus accumbens.
In the nucleus accumbens is where dopamine creates a feeling of pleasure and reward.
whenever, there is sense of rewarding or pleasurable stimuli, the dopamine travels from ventral tegmental area to the nucleus accumbens where dopamine creates a sense of positive feeling, this leads to the addictive behavior ( ie, drugs)
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