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Which area of the brain, attached to the basal ganglia by an impulsive, reward-seeking system, plays a large role in brain addiction? a. ​hippocampus b. ​medulla oblongata c. ​hypothalamus d. ​nucleus
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Which area of the brain, attached to the basal ganglia by an impulsive, reward-seeking system, plays a large role in brain addiction?

a. ​hippocampus
b. ​medulla oblongata
c. ​hypothalamus
d. ​nucleus accumbens?

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D - Nucleus Accumbens

The Nucleus Accumbens is stimulated through rewarding experiences which leads to addictions. The Nucleus Accumbens then continues to achieve for meditating rewards which continues in a process of addiction.

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