If someone is planning out a series of steps, such as getting money and driving to meet a dealer, to obtain a drug of abuse, which structure is likely mediating these plans?

a. Nucleus accumbens
b. Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex
c. Amygdala
d. Hypothalamus


Ans: B

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