"It is connected to the ventral tegmental area (VTA), the prefrontal cortex (PFC), basolateral amygdala (BLA) and the lateral hypothalamus (LH)"
"Dopaminergic innervation from the ventral tegmental area (VTA) and glutaminergic innervation from the PFC are responsible for the reward pathway for food, sex and music. The nucleus accumbens (NAc) also receives orexinergic projections from the LH which are thought to model the psychosomatic response to psychostimulant drugs 3."