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Anatomizing the “King of Neurosciences”
Ioannis N Mavridis, Medical office of the Command of the Hellenic Navy General Staff (Naval Hospital of Athens), 15561 Athens, Greece
Author contributions: Mavridis IN solely contributed to this paper.
Correspondence to: Ioannis N Mavridis, MD, PhD, Medical office of the Command of the Hellenic Navy General Staff (Naval Hospital of Athens), Mesogion Av. 229, Cholargos, 15561 Athens, Greece. pap-van@otenet.gr
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Received: February 10, 2013
Revised: March 19, 2013
Accepted: May 8, 2013
Published online: June 28, 2013
Processing time: 113 Days and 10.1 Hours
Revised: March 19, 2013
Accepted: May 8, 2013
Published online: June 28, 2013
Processing time: 113 Days and 10.1 Hours
Core Tip
Core tip: The human nucleus accumbens (NA), a major pleasure center of the brain, is a limbic-motor interface involved in several neurological and psychiatric disorders. It became recently a deep brain stimulation target for selected patients. Its exceptional clinical significance justifies its title as the “King of Neurosciences”. Purpose of this editorial is to review the few studies who explored the NA gross anatomy. The first anatomical study focused on this nucleus came from Neto et al. The most extensive study of the NA gross, imaging, stereotactic and neurosurgical anatomy came from the research of Mavridis et al.