A habenula-insular circuit encodes the willingness to act

Nima Khalighinejad; Neil Garrett; Luke Priestley; Patricia Lockwood; Matthew F. S. Rushworth

doi:10.1038/s41467-021-26569-1

Nature Communications (Nov 2021)

A habenula-insular circuit encodes the willingness to act

Nima Khalighinejad,
Neil Garrett,
Luke Priestley,
Patricia Lockwood,
Matthew F. S. Rushworth

Affiliations

Nima Khalighinejad: Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford
Neil Garrett: Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford
Luke Priestley: Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford
Patricia Lockwood: Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford
Matthew F. S. Rushworth: Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26569-1
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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A crucial component of voluntary behaviour is deciding that it is worth doing something rather than nothing. Here the authors show the brain network that encodes this decision, which includes the habenula and anterior insula.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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