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Granata LE, Chang A, Shaheed H, Shinde A, Kulkarni P, Satpute A, Brenhouse HC, Honeycutt JA. Examining Brain Activity Responses during Rat Ultrasonic Vocalization Playback: Insights from a Novel fMRI Translational Paradigm. eNeuro 2024; 11:ENEURO.0179-23.2024. [PMID: 39299806 PMCID: PMC11451431 DOI: 10.1523/eneuro.0179-23.2024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2023] [Revised: 08/26/2024] [Accepted: 09/16/2024] [Indexed: 09/22/2024] Open
Abstract
Despite decades of preclinical investigation, there remains limited understanding of the etiology and biological underpinnings of anxiety disorders. Sensitivity to potential threat is characteristic of anxiety-like behavior in humans and rodents, but traditional rodent behavioral tasks aimed to assess threat responsiveness lack translational value, especially with regard to emotionally valenced stimuli. Therefore, development of novel preclinical approaches to serve as analogues to patient assessments is needed. In humans, the fearful face task is widely used to test responsiveness to socially communicated threat signals. In rats, ultrasonic vocalizations (USVs) are analogous social cues associated with positive or negative affective states that can elicit behavioral changes in the receiver. It is therefore likely that when rats hear aversive alarm call USVs (22 kHz), they evoke translatable changes in brain activity comparable with the fearful face task. We used functional magnetic resonance imaging in male and female rats to assess changes in BOLD activity induced by exposure to aversive 22 kHz alarm calls emitted in response to threatening stimuli, prosocial (55 kHz) USVs emitted in response to appetitive stimuli, or a computer-generated 22 kHz tone. Results show patterns of regional activation that are specific to each USV stimulus. Notably, limbic regions clinically relevant to psychiatric disorders (e.g., amygdala, bed nucleus of the stria terminalis) are preferentially activated by either aversive 22 kHz or appetitive 55 kHz USVs. These results support the use of USV playback as a promising translational tool to investigate affective processing under conditions of distal threat in preclinical rat models.
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- Lauren E Granata
- Developmental Neuropsychobiology Laboratory, Department of Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
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- Center for Translational Neuroimaging, Department of Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
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- Developmental Neuropsychobiology Laboratory, Department of Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
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- Center for Translational Neuroimaging, Department of Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
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- Center for Translational Neuroimaging, Department of Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
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- Affective and Brain Sciences Lab, Department of Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
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- Developmental Neuropsychobiology Laboratory, Department of Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
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- Developmental Neuropsychobiology Laboratory, Department of Psychology, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
- Research in Affective and Translational Neuroscience Lab, Department of Psychology and Program in Neuroscience, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine 04011
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Bigot M, De Badts CH, Benchetrit A, Vicq É, Moigneu C, Meyrel M, Wagner S, Hennrich AA, Houenou J, Lledo PM, Henry C, Alonso M. Disrupted basolateral amygdala circuits supports negative valence bias in depressive states. Transl Psychiatry 2024; 14:382. [PMID: 39300117 DOI: 10.1038/s41398-024-03085-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2023] [Revised: 08/29/2024] [Accepted: 09/02/2024] [Indexed: 09/22/2024] Open
Abstract
Negative bias is an essential characteristic of depressive episodes leading patients to attribute more negative valence to environmental cues. This negative bias affects all levels of information processing including emotional response, attention and memory, leading to the development and maintenance of depressive symptoms. In this context, pleasant stimuli become less attractive and unpleasant ones more aversive, yet the related neural circuits underlying this bias remain largely unknown. By studying a mice model for depression chronically receiving corticosterone (CORT), we showed a negative bias in valence attribution to olfactory stimuli that responds to antidepressant drug. This result paralleled the alterations in odor value assignment we observed in bipolar depressed patients. Given the crucial role of amygdala in valence coding and its strong link with depression, we hypothesized that basolateral amygdala (BLA) circuits alterations might support negative shift associated with depressive states. Contrary to humans, where limits in spatial resolution of imaging tools impair easy amygdala segmentation, recently unravelled specific BLA circuits implicated in negative and positive valence attribution could be studied in mice. Combining CTB and rabies-based tracing with ex vivo measurements of neuronal activity, we demonstrated that negative valence bias is supported by disrupted activity of specific BLA circuits during depressive states. Chronic CORT administration induced decreased recruitment of BLA-to-NAc neurons preferentially involved in positive valence encoding, while increasing recruitment of BLA-to-CeA neurons preferentially involved in negative valence encoding. Importantly, this dysfunction was dampened by chemogenetic hyperactivation of BLA-to-NAc neurons. Moreover, altered BLA activity correlated with durable presynaptic connectivity changes coming from the paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus, recently demonstrated as orchestrating valence assignment in the amygdala. Together, our findings suggest that specific BLA circuits alterations might support negative bias in depressive states and provide new avenues for translational research to understand the mechanisms underlying depression and treatment efficacy.
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- Mathilde Bigot
- Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 3571, Perception and Action Unit, F-75015, Paris, France
- Sorbonne Université, Collège doctoral, Paris, France
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- Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 3571, Perception and Action Unit, F-75015, Paris, France
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- Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 3571, Perception and Action Unit, F-75015, Paris, France
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- Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 3571, Perception and Action Unit, F-75015, Paris, France
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- Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 3571, Perception and Action Unit, F-75015, Paris, France
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- Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Department of psychiatry, Mondor University Hospital, Créteil, France
- NeuroSpin, PsyBrain Team, UNIACT Lab, CEA Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
- Université Paris Est Créteil, Faculté de Santé de Créteil, INSERM U955, IMRB, Translational Neuropsychiatry team, Créteil, France
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- Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 3571, Perception and Action Unit, F-75015, Paris, France
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- Max von Pettenkofer-Institute Virology, Medical Faculty, and Gene Center, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Department of psychiatry, Mondor University Hospital, Créteil, France
- NeuroSpin, PsyBrain Team, UNIACT Lab, CEA Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
- Université Paris Est Créteil, Faculté de Santé de Créteil, INSERM U955, IMRB, Translational Neuropsychiatry team, Créteil, France
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- Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 3571, Perception and Action Unit, F-75015, Paris, France
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- Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 3571, Perception and Action Unit, F-75015, Paris, France.
- Université de Paris Cité, Paris, France.
- Departement of Psychiatry, Service Hospitalo-Universitaire, GHU Paris Psychiatrie & Neurosciences, Paris, France.
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- Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Mixte de Recherche 3571, Perception and Action Unit, F-75015, Paris, France.
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Yau JOY, Li A, Abdallah L, Lisowksi L, McNally GP. State- and Circuit-Dependent Opponent Processing of Fear. J Neurosci 2024; 44:e0857242024. [PMID: 39060174 PMCID: PMC11411590 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.0857-24.2024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/07/2024] [Revised: 07/16/2024] [Accepted: 07/23/2024] [Indexed: 07/28/2024] Open
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The presence of valence coding neurons in the basolateral amygdala (BLA) that form distinct projections to other brain regions implies functional opposition between aversion and reward during learning. However, evidence for opponent interactions in fear learning is sparse and may only be apparent under certain conditions. Here we test this possibility by studying the roles of the BLA→central amygdala (CeA) and BLA→nucleus accumbens (Acb) pathways in fear learning in male rats. First, we assessed the organization of these pathways in the rat brain. BLA→CeA and BLA→Acb pathways were largely segregated in the BLA but shared overlapping molecular profiles. Then we assessed activity of the BLA→CeA and BLA→Acb pathways during two different forms of fear learning-fear learning in a neutral context and fear learning in a reward context. BLA→CeA neurons were robustly recruited by footshock regardless of where fear learning occurred, whereas recruitment of BLA→Acb neurons was state-dependent because footshock only recruited this pathway in a reward context. Finally, we assessed the causal roles of activity in these pathways in fear learning. Photoinhibition of the BLA→CeA pathway during the footshock US impaired fear learning, regardless of where fear learning occurred. In contrast, photoinhibition of the BLA→Acb pathway augmented fear learning, but only in the reward context. Taken together, our findings show circuit- and state-dependent opponent processing of fear. Footshock activity in the BLA→Acb pathway limits how much fear is learned.
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- Joanna Oi-Yue Yau
- School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales 2052, Australia
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- School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales 2052, Australia
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- School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales 2052, Australia
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- Translational Vectorology Research Unit, Children's Medical Research Institute, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Westmead, New South Wales 2145, Australia
- Australian Genome Therapeutics Centre, Children's Medical Research Institute and Sydney Children's Hospitals Network, Westmead, New South Wales 2145, Australia
- Laboratory of Molecular Oncology and Innovative Therapies, Military Institute of Medicine - National Research Institute, Szaserów 128 Street, 04-141 Warszawa 44, Poland
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- School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales 2052, Australia
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Aukema RJ, Petrie GN, Matarasso AK, Baglot SL, Molina LA, Füzesi T, Kadhim S, Nastase AS, Rodriguez Reyes I, Bains JS, Morena M, Bruchas MR, Hill MN. Identification of a stress-responsive subregion of the basolateral amygdala in male rats. Neuropsychopharmacology 2024:10.1038/s41386-024-01927-x. [PMID: 39117904 DOI: 10.1038/s41386-024-01927-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2024] [Revised: 06/14/2024] [Accepted: 07/10/2024] [Indexed: 08/10/2024]
Abstract
The basolateral amygdala (BLA) is reliably activated by psychological stress and hyperactive in conditions of pathological stress or trauma; however, subsets of BLA neurons are also readily activated by rewarding stimuli and can suppress fear and avoidance behaviours. The BLA is highly heterogeneous anatomically, exhibiting continuous molecular and connectivity gradients throughout the entire structure. A critical gap remains in understanding the anatomical specificity of amygdala subregions, circuits, and cell types explicitly activated by acute stress and how they are dynamically activated throughout stimulus exposure. Using a combination of topographical mapping for the activity-responsive protein FOS and fiber photometry to measure calcium transients in real-time, we sought to characterize the spatial and temporal patterns of BLA activation in response to a range of novel stressors (shock, swim, restraint, predator odour) and non-aversive, but novel stimuli (crackers, citral odour). We report four main findings: (1) the BLA exhibits clear spatial activation gradients in response to novel stimuli throughout the medial-lateral and dorsal-ventral axes, with aversive stimuli strongly biasing activation towards medial aspects of the BLA; (2) novel stimuli elicit distinct temporal activation patterns, with stressful stimuli exhibiting particularly enhanced or prolonged temporal activation patterns; (3) changes in BLA activity are associated with changes in behavioural state; and (4) norepinephrine enhances stress-induced activation of BLA neurons via the ß-noradrenergic receptor. Moving forward, it will be imperative to combine our understanding of activation gradients with molecular and circuit-specificity.
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- Robert J Aukema
- Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, T2N 4N1, Canada
- Mathison Centre for Mental Health, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, T2N 4N1, Canada
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- Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, T2N 4N1, Canada
- Mathison Centre for Mental Health, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, T2N 4N1, Canada
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- Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA
- Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA
- UW Center for the Neurobiology of Addiction, Pain, and Emotion (NAPE), University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA
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- Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, T2N 4N1, Canada
- Mathison Centre for Mental Health, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, T2N 4N1, Canada
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- Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, T2N 4N1, Canada
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- Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, T2N 4N1, Canada
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- Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, T2N 4N1, Canada
- Mathison Centre for Mental Health, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, T2N 4N1, Canada
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- Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, T2N 4N1, Canada
- Mathison Centre for Mental Health, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, T2N 4N1, Canada
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- Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA
- UW Center for the Neurobiology of Addiction, Pain, and Emotion (NAPE), University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA
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- Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, T2N 4N1, Canada
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- Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, T2N 4N1, Canada
- Mathison Centre for Mental Health, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, T2N 4N1, Canada
- Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, 00185, Italy
- Neuropsychopharmacology Unit, European Center for Brain Research, Santa Lucia Foundation, Rome, 00143, Italy
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- Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA
- Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA
- UW Center for the Neurobiology of Addiction, Pain, and Emotion (NAPE), University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA
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- Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, T2N 4N1, Canada.
- Mathison Centre for Mental Health, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, T2N 4N1, Canada.
- Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, T2N 4N1, Canada.
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, T2N 4N1, Canada.
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Gergues MM, Lalani LK, Kheirbek MA. Identifying dysfunctional cell types and circuits in animal models for psychiatric disorders with calcium imaging. Neuropsychopharmacology 2024:10.1038/s41386-024-01942-y. [PMID: 39122815 DOI: 10.1038/s41386-024-01942-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2024] [Revised: 05/30/2024] [Accepted: 07/09/2024] [Indexed: 08/12/2024]
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A central goal of neuroscience is to understand how the brain transforms external stimuli and internal bodily signals into patterns of activity that underlie cognition, emotional states, and behavior. Understanding how these patterns of activity may be disrupted in mental illness is crucial for developing novel therapeutics. It is well appreciated that psychiatric disorders are complex, circuit-based disorders that arise from dysfunctional activity patterns generated in discrete cell types and their connections. Recent advances in large-scale, cell-type specific calcium imaging approaches have shed new light on the cellular, circuit, and network-level dysfunction in animal models for psychiatric disorders. Here, we highlight a series of recent findings over the last ~10 years from in vivo calcium imaging studies that show how aberrant patterns of activity in discrete cell types and circuits may underlie behavioral deficits in animal models for several psychiatric disorders, including depression, anxiety, autism spectrum disorders, and schizophrenia. These advances in calcium imaging in pre-clinical models demonstrate the power of cell-type-specific imaging tools in understanding the underlying dysfunction in cell types, activity patterns, and neural circuits that may contribute to disease and provide new blueprints for developing more targeted therapeutics and treatment strategies.
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- Mark M Gergues
- Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
- Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
- Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
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- Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
- Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
- Kavli Institute for Fundamental Neuroscience, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
- Center for Integrative Neuroscience, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
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Antonoudiou P, Stone BT, Colmers PLW, Evans-Strong A, Teboul E, Walton NL, Weiss GL, Maguire J. Experience-dependent information routing through the basolateral amygdala shapes behavioral outcomes. Cell Rep 2024; 43:114489. [PMID: 38990724 PMCID: PMC11330675 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2024.114489] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2023] [Revised: 05/22/2024] [Accepted: 06/25/2024] [Indexed: 07/13/2024] Open
Abstract
It is well established that the basolateral amygdala (BLA) is an emotional processing hub that governs a diverse repertoire of behaviors. Selective engagement of a heterogeneous cell population in the BLA is thought to contribute to this flexibility in behavioral outcomes. However, whether this process is impacted by previous experiences that influence emotional processing remains unclear. Here we demonstrate that previous positive (enriched environment [EE]) or negative (chronic unpredictable stress [CUS]) experiences differentially influence the activity of populations of BLA principal neurons projecting to either the nucleus accumbens core or bed nucleus of the stria terminalis. Chemogenetic manipulation of these projection-specific neurons can mimic or occlude the effects of CUS and EE on behavioral outcomes to bidirectionally control avoidance behaviors and stress-induced helplessness. These data demonstrate that previous experiences influence the responsiveness of projection-specific BLA principal neurons, biasing information routing through the BLA, to drive divergent behavioral outcomes.
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- Pantelis Antonoudiou
- Department of Neuroscience, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
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- Neuroscience Program, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
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- Neuroscience Program, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.
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Clarke RE, Grant RI, Woods SN, Pagoota BE, Buchmaier S, Bordieanu B, Tsyrulnikov A, Westphal AM, Paniccia JE, Doncheck EM, Carroll-Deaton J, Vollmer KM, Ward AL, Winston KT, King DI, Baek J, Martino MR, Green LM, McGinty JF, Scofield MD, Otis JM. Corticostriatal ensemble dynamics across heroin self-administration to reinstatement. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2024:2024.06.21.599790. [PMID: 38979314 PMCID: PMC11230161 DOI: 10.1101/2024.06.21.599790] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/10/2024]
Abstract
Corticostriatal projection neurons from prelimbic medial prefrontal cortex to the nucleus accumbens core critically regulate drug-seeking behaviors, yet the underlying encoding dynamics whereby these neurons contribute to drug seeking remain elusive. Here we use two-photon calcium imaging to visualize the activity of corticostriatal neurons in mice from the onset of heroin use to relapse. We find that the activity of these neurons is highly heterogeneous during heroin self-administration and seeking, with at least 8 distinct neuronal ensembles that display both excitatory and inhibitory encoding dynamics. These neuronal ensembles are particularly apparent during relapse, where excitatory responses are amplified compared to heroin self-administration. Moreover, we find that optogenetic inhibition of corticostriatal projection neurons attenuates heroin seeking regardless of the relapse trigger. Our results reveal the precise corticostriatal activity dynamics underlying drug-seeking behaviors and support a key role for this circuit in mediating relapse to drug seeking.
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- Rachel E Clarke
- Department of Neuroscience, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
- Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
- Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
- Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
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- Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
- Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
- Co-last authors
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- Department of Neuroscience, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
- Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
- Hollings Cancer Center, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
- Co-last authors
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Báldi R, Muthuswamy S, Loomba N, Patel S. Synaptic Organization-Function Relationships of Amygdala Interneurons Supporting Associative Learning. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2024:2024.06.18.599631. [PMID: 38948865 PMCID: PMC11212985 DOI: 10.1101/2024.06.18.599631] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/02/2024]
Abstract
Coordinated activity of basolateral amygdala (BLA) GABAergic interneurons (INs) and glutamatergic principal cells (PCs) is critical for associative learning, however the microcircuit organization-function relationships of distinct IN classes remain uncertain. Here, we show somatostatin (SOM) INs provide inhibition onto, and are excited by, local PCs, whereas vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) INs are driven by extrinsic afferents. Parvalbumin (PV) INs inhibit PCs and are activated by local and extrinsic inputs. Thus, SOM and VIP INs exhibit complementary roles in feedback and feedforward inhibition, respectively, while PV INs contribute to both microcircuit motifs. Functionally, each IN subtype reveals unique activity patterns across fear- and extinction learning with SOM and VIP INs showing most divergent characteristics, and PV INs display an intermediate phenotype parallelling synaptic data. Finally, SOM and PV INs dynamically track behavioral state transitions across learning. These data provide insight into the synaptic microcircuit organization-function relationships of distinct BLA IN classes.
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Jared Ramirez Sanchez L, Li B. Driving valence-specific behavior through single-cell resolution control in the amygdala. Neuron 2024; 112:521-523. [PMID: 38387436 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2024.01.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2024] [Revised: 01/17/2024] [Accepted: 01/17/2024] [Indexed: 02/24/2024]
Abstract
In this issue of Neuron, Piantadosi et al.1 demonstrate that by precisely controlling the activity of individual negative-valence neurons and positive-valence neurons in the basolateral amygdala, one can alter animals' appetitive or aversive responses, respectively, establishing a causal role of these neurons in valence-specific behavior.
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- School of Biological Sciences, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724, USA; Westlake Laboratory of Life Sciences and Biomedicine, School of Life Sciences, Westlake University, Hangzhou 310024, China.
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Wojick JA, Paranjapye A, Chiu JK, Mahmood M, Oswell C, Kimmey BA, Wooldridge LM, McCall NM, Han A, Ejoh LL, Chehimi SN, Crist RC, Reiner BC, Korb E, Corder G. A nociceptive amygdala-striatal pathway for chronic pain aversion. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2024:2024.02.12.579947. [PMID: 38405972 PMCID: PMC10888915 DOI: 10.1101/2024.02.12.579947] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/27/2024]
Abstract
The basolateral amygdala (BLA) is essential for assigning positive or negative valence to sensory stimuli. Noxious stimuli that cause pain are encoded by an ensemble of nociceptive BLA projection neurons (BLAnoci ensemble). However, the role of the BLAnoci ensemble in mediating behavior changes and the molecular signatures and downstream targets distinguishing this ensemble remain poorly understood. Here, we show that the same BLAnoci ensemble neurons are required for both acute and chronic neuropathic pain behavior. Using single nucleus RNA-sequencing, we characterized the effect of acute and chronic pain on the BLA and identified enrichment for genes with known functions in axonal and synaptic organization and pain perception. We thus examined the brain-wide targets of the BLAnoci ensemble and uncovered a previously undescribed nociceptive hotspot of the nucleus accumbens shell (NAcSh) that mirrors the stability and specificity of the BLAnoci ensemble and is recruited in chronic pain. Notably, BLAnoci ensemble axons transmit acute and neuropathic nociceptive information to the NAcSh, highlighting this nociceptive amygdala-striatal circuit as a unique pathway for affective-motivational responses across pain states.
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- Jessica A Wojick
- Dept. of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Dept. of Neuroscience, Mahoney Institute for Neurosciences, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Dept. of Biology, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Epigenetics Institute, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Dept. of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Dept. of Neuroscience, Mahoney Institute for Neurosciences, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Dept. of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Dept. of Neuroscience, Mahoney Institute for Neurosciences, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Dept. of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Dept. of Neuroscience, Mahoney Institute for Neurosciences, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Dept. of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Dept. of Neuroscience, Mahoney Institute for Neurosciences, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Dept. of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Dept. of Neuroscience, Mahoney Institute for Neurosciences, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Dept. of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Dept. of Neuroscience, Mahoney Institute for Neurosciences, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Dept. of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Dept. of Neuroscience, Mahoney Institute for Neurosciences, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Dept. of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Dept. of Neuroscience, Mahoney Institute for Neurosciences, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Dept. of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Dept. of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Dept. of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Genetics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Epigenetics Institute, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Dept. of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
- Dept. of Neuroscience, Mahoney Institute for Neurosciences, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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LaFosse PK, Zhou Z, Friedman NG, Deng Y, Li AJ, Akitake B, Histed MH. Bicistronic Expression of a High-Performance Calcium Indicator and Opsin for All-Optical Stimulation and Imaging at Cellular Resolution. eNeuro 2023; 10:ENEURO.0378-22.2023. [PMID: 36858826 PMCID: PMC10062490 DOI: 10.1523/eneuro.0378-22.2023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/12/2022] [Revised: 02/21/2023] [Accepted: 02/23/2023] [Indexed: 03/03/2023] Open
Abstract
State-of-the-art all-optical systems promise unprecedented access to neural activity in vivo, using multiphoton optogenetics to allow simultaneous imaging and control of activity in selected neurons at cellular resolution. However, to achieve wide use of all-optical stimulation and imaging, simple strategies are needed to robustly and stably express opsins and indicators in the same cells. Here, we describe a bicistronic adeno-associated virus (AAV) that expresses both the fast and bright calcium indicator jGCaMP8s, and a soma-targeted (st) and two-photon-activatable opsin, ChrimsonR. With this method, stChrimsonR stimulation with two-photon holography in the visual cortex of mice drives robust spiking in targeted cells, and neural responses to visual sensory stimuli and spontaneous activity are strong and stable. Cells expressing this bicistronic construct show responses to both photostimulation and visual stimulation that are similar to responses measured from cells expressing the same opsin and indicator via separate viruses. This approach is a simple and robust way to prepare neurons in vivo for two-photon holography and imaging.
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- Paul K LaFosse
- Intramural Program, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892
- National Institutes of Health-University of Maryland Graduate Partnerships Program, Bethesda, MD 20892
- Neuroscience and Cognitive Science Program, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD 20742
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- Intramural Program, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892
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- Intramural Program, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892
- National Institutes of Health-University of Maryland Graduate Partnerships Program, Bethesda, MD 20892
- Neuroscience and Cognitive Science Program, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD 20742
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- Intramural Program, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892
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- Intramural Program, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892
- Department of Biological Structure, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195
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- Intramural Program, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892
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- Intramural Program, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892
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