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An earlier mouse study directly linked pregnancy food-craving-like events to dynamic accumbal D2-receptor dopaminergic signaling. DIRECT_TEXT

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Source: Food craving-like episodes during pregnancy are mediated by accumbal dopaminergic circuits · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:9e6df999cc932eb232f781668ce944c48b66ddf08627a35d4a2f01349e4a4c40

These episodes are associated with a brain connectivity reorganization that affects key components of the dopaminergic mesolimbic circuitry... Pregnancy engages a dynamic modulation of dopaminergic signalling through neurons expressing dopamine D2 receptors in the nucleus accumbens, which directly modulate food craving-like events.