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Geissmann L, Coynel D, Papassotiropoulos A, de Quervain DJF. Neurofunctional underpinnings of individual differences in visual episodic memory performance. Nat Commun 2023; 14:5694. [PMID: 37709747 PMCID: PMC10502056 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-41380-w] [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: 09/12/2022] [Accepted: 09/01/2023] [Indexed: 09/16/2023] Open
Abstract
Episodic memory, the ability to consciously recollect information and its context, varies substantially among individuals. While prior fMRI studies have identified certain brain regions linked to successful memory encoding at a group level, their role in explaining individual memory differences remains largely unexplored. Here, we analyze fMRI data of 1,498 adults participating in a picture encoding task in a single MRI scanner. We find that individual differences in responsivity of the hippocampus, orbitofrontal cortex, and posterior cingulate cortex account for individual variability in episodic memory performance. While these regions also emerge in our group-level analysis, other regions, predominantly within the lateral occipital cortex, are related to successful memory encoding but not to individual memory variation. Furthermore, our network-based approach reveals a link between the responsivity of nine functional connectivity networks and individual memory variability. Our work provides insights into the neurofunctional correlates of individual differences in visual episodic memory performance.
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- Léonie Geissmann
- Division of Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
- Research Cluster Molecular and Cognitive Neurosciences, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
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- Division of Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- Research Cluster Molecular and Cognitive Neurosciences, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Research Cluster Molecular and Cognitive Neurosciences, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- Division of Molecular Neuroscience, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- University Psychiatric Clinics, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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- Division of Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
- Research Cluster Molecular and Cognitive Neurosciences, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
- University Psychiatric Clinics, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
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Noorbakhshnia M, Zarrinimehr N. The role of nucleus accumbens shell on acquisition and retrieval stages of morphine state dependent learning. Asian J Psychiatr 2019; 39:150-156. [PMID: 30639974 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajp.2018.12.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2018] [Revised: 12/15/2018] [Accepted: 12/20/2018] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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AIM In the present study, the effect of transient inactivation of the shell subregion of the nucleus accumbens (NAC shell) by lidocaine on the acquisition and retrieval stages of passive avoidance learning (PAL) and memory and morphine state-dependent learning (SDL) in male wistar rats was investigated. METHODOLOGY Adult male wistar rats weighing (220-250 g) were used. Lidocaine hydrochloride was bilaterally injected into the shell area of the nucleus accumbens 5 min before of subcutaneous morphine administration. RESULTS pre-training and pre-test infusion of lidocaine into the NAC shell significantly impaired PAL and memory. Furthermore, Pre-training administration of morphine (5 mg/kg, s.c.) in a step-through passive avoidance task induced state-dependent learning with impaired memory retrieval on the test day. The impairment of memory was restored after pre-test administration of the same dose of morphine. This phenomenon has been named as morphine state dependent learning (SDL). Moreover, Pre-training and pre-test inactivation of the NAC shell impaired morphine SDL. CONCLUSIONS The results suggest the role of NAC shell as a common structure in the PAL and morphine SDL. It is suggested that NAC shell as a common area plays a critical role in the acquisition and retrieval stages of PAL and also morphine SDL.
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- Maryam Noorbakhshnia
- Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran.
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran
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Mayer D, Kahl E, Uzuneser TC, Fendt M. Role of the mesolimbic dopamine system in relief learning. Neuropsychopharmacology 2018; 43:1651-1659. [PMID: 29453443 PMCID: PMC6006155 DOI: 10.1038/s41386-018-0020-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2017] [Revised: 01/19/2018] [Accepted: 01/20/2018] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
Abstract
The relief from an aversive event is rewarding. Since organisms are able to learn which environmental cues can cease an aversive event, relief learning helps to better cope with future aversive events. Literature data suggest that relief learning is affected in various psychopathological conditions, such as anxiety disorders. Here, we investigated the role of the mesolimbic dopamine system in relief learning. Using a relief learning procedure in Sprague Dawley rats, we applied a combination of behavioral experiments with anatomical tracing, c-Fos immunohistochemistry, and local chemogenetic and pharmacological interventions to broadly characterize the role of the mesolimbic dopamine system. The present study shows that a specific part of the mesolimbic dopamine system, the projection from the posterior medial ventral tegmental area (pmVTA) to the nucleus accumbens shell (AcbSh), is activated by aversive electric stimuli. 6-OHDA lesions of the pmVTA blocked relief learning but fear learning and safety learning were not affected. Chemogenetic silencing of the pmVTA-AcbSh projection using the DREADD approach, as well as intra-AcbSh injections of the dopamine D2/3 receptor antagonist raclopride inhibited relief learning. Taken together, the present data demonstrate that the dopaminergic pmVTA-AcbSh projection is critical for relief learning but not for similar learning phenomena. This novel finding may have clinical implications since the processing of signals predicting relief and safety is often impaired in patients suffering from anxiety disorders. Furthermore, it may help to better understand psychological conditions like non-suicidal self-injury, which are associated with pain offset relief.
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- Dana Mayer
- Institute for Pharmacology and Toxicology, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany
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- Institute for Pharmacology and Toxicology, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany
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- Institute for Pharmacology and Toxicology, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany
- Integrative Neuroscience Program, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany
- Department for Psychiatry & Psychotherapy, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany
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- Institute for Pharmacology and Toxicology, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany.
- Center of Behavioral Brain Sciences, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany.
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König C, Khalili A, Ganesan M, Nishu AP, Garza AP, Niewalda T, Gerber B, Aso Y, Yarali A. Reinforcement signaling of punishment versus relief in fruit flies. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2018; 25:247-257. [PMID: 29764970 PMCID: PMC5959229 DOI: 10.1101/lm.047308.118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2018] [Accepted: 04/06/2018] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Painful events establish opponent memories: cues that precede pain are remembered negatively, whereas cues that follow pain, thus coinciding with relief are recalled positively. How do individual reinforcement-signaling neurons contribute to this “timing-dependent valence-reversal?” We addressed this question using an optogenetic approach in the fruit fly. Two types of fly dopaminergic neuron, each comprising just one paired cell, indeed established learned avoidance of odors that preceded their photostimulation during training, and learned approach to odors that followed the photostimulation. This is in striking parallel to punishment versus relief memories reinforced by a real noxious event. For only one of these neuron types, both effects were strong enough for further analyses. Notably, interfering with dopamine biosynthesis in these neurons partially impaired the punishing effect, but not the relieving after-effect of their photostimulation. We discuss how this finding constraints existing computational models of punishment versus relief memories and introduce a new model, which also incorporates findings from mammals. Furthermore, whether using dopaminergic neuron photostimulation or a real noxious event, more prolonged punishment led to stronger relief. This parametric feature of relief may also apply to other animals and may explain particular aspects of related behavioral dysfunction in humans.
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- Christian König
- Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Research Group Molecular Systems Biology of Learning, Magdeburg 39118, Germany.,Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg 39118, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Research Group Molecular Systems Biology of Learning, Magdeburg 39118, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Research Group Molecular Systems Biology of Learning, Magdeburg 39118, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Research Group Molecular Systems Biology of Learning, Magdeburg 39118, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Research Group Molecular Systems Biology of Learning, Magdeburg 39118, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Department Genetics of Learning and Memory, Magdeburg 39118, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Department Genetics of Learning and Memory, Magdeburg 39118, Germany.,Otto von Guericke University, Institute for Biology, Behavioural Genetics, Magdeburg 39118, Germany.,Center for Behavioral Brain Sciences, Magdeburg 39118, Germany
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- HHMI, Janelia Research Campus, Ashburn, Virginia 20147, USA
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- Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Research Group Molecular Systems Biology of Learning, Magdeburg 39118, Germany.,Center for Behavioral Brain Sciences, Magdeburg 39118, Germany
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Banqueri M, Méndez M, Arias JL. Spatial memory-related brain activity in normally reared and different maternal separation models in rats. Physiol Behav 2017; 181:80-85. [DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2017.09.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2017] [Revised: 09/04/2017] [Accepted: 09/07/2017] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Bergado Acosta JR, Schneider M, Fendt M. Intra-accumbal blockade of endocannabinoid CB1 receptors impairs learning but not retention of conditioned relief. Neurobiol Learn Mem 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2017.06.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Salles A, Krawczyk MDC, Blake M, Romano A, Boccia MM, Freudenthal R. Requirement of NF-kappa B Activation in Different Mice Brain Areas during Long-Term Memory Consolidation in Two Contextual One-Trial Tasks with Opposing Valences. Front Mol Neurosci 2017; 10:104. [PMID: 28439227 PMCID: PMC5383659 DOI: 10.3389/fnmol.2017.00104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2016] [Accepted: 03/24/2017] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
Abstract
NF-kappa B is a transcription factor whose activation has been shown to be necessary for long-term memory consolidation in several species. NF-kappa B is activated and translocates to the nucleus of cells in a specific temporal window during consolidation. Our work focuses on a one trial learning tasks associated to the inhibitory avoidance (IA) setting. Mice were trained either receiving or not a footshock when entering a dark compartment (aversive vs. appetitive learning). Regardless of training condition (appetitive or aversive), latencies to step-through during testing were significantly different to those measured during training. Additionally, these testing latencies were also different from those of a control group that only received a shock unrelated to context. Moreover, nuclear NF-kappa B DNA-binding activity was augmented in the aversive and the appetitive tasks when compared with control and naïve animals. NF-kappa B inhibition by Sulfasalazine injected either in the Hippocampus, Amygdala or Nucleus accumbens immediately after training was able to impair retention in both training versions. Our results suggest that NF-kappa B is a critical molecular step, in different brain areas on memory consolidation. This was the case for both the IA task and also the modified version of the same task where the footshock was omitted during training. This work aims to further investigate how appetitive and aversive memories are consolidated.
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- Angeles Salles
- Laboratorio de Neurobiología de la Memoria, Departamento de Fisiología y Biología Molecular y Celular, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos AiresBuenos Aires, Argentina.,Instituto de Fisiología, Biología Molecular y Neurociencias (IFIBYNE), CONICET-Universidad de Buenos AiresBuenos Aires, Argentina
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- Laboratorio de Neurofarmacología de los Procesos de Memoria, Cátedra de Farmacología, Fac. Farmacia y Bioquímica, Universidad de Buenos Aires/CONICETBuenos Aires, Argentina
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- Departamento de Fisiología, Instituto de Fisiología y Biofísica Bernardo Houssay (IFIBIO), Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Buenos Aires, CONICETBuenos Aires, Argentina
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- Laboratorio de Neurobiología de la Memoria, Departamento de Fisiología y Biología Molecular y Celular, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos AiresBuenos Aires, Argentina.,Instituto de Fisiología, Biología Molecular y Neurociencias (IFIBYNE), CONICET-Universidad de Buenos AiresBuenos Aires, Argentina
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- Laboratorio de Neurofarmacología de los Procesos de Memoria, Cátedra de Farmacología, Fac. Farmacia y Bioquímica, Universidad de Buenos Aires/CONICETBuenos Aires, Argentina
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- Laboratorio de Neurobiología de la Memoria, Departamento de Fisiología y Biología Molecular y Celular, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos AiresBuenos Aires, Argentina.,Instituto de Fisiología, Biología Molecular y Neurociencias (IFIBYNE), CONICET-Universidad de Buenos AiresBuenos Aires, Argentina
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Bergado Acosta JR, Kahl E, Kogias G, Uzuneser TC, Fendt M. Relief learning requires a coincident activation of dopamine D1 and NMDA receptors within the nucleus accumbens. Neuropharmacology 2016; 114:58-66. [PMID: 27894877 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2016.11.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2016] [Revised: 11/03/2016] [Accepted: 11/24/2016] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
Abstract
Relief learning is the association of a stimulus with the offset of an aversive event. Later, the now conditioned relief stimulus induces appetitive-like behavioral changes. We previously demonstrated that the NMDA receptors within the nucleus accumbens (NAC) are involved in relief learning. The NAC is also important for reward learning and it has been shown that reward learning is mediated by an interaction of accumbal dopamine and NMDA glutamate receptors. Since conditioned relief has reward-like properties, we hypothesized that (a) acquisition of relief learning requires the activation of dopamine D1 receptors in the NAC, and (b) if D1 receptors are involved in this process as expected, a concurrent dopamine D1 and NMDA receptor activation may mediate this learning. The present study tested these hypotheses. Therefore, rats received intra-NAC injections of the dopamine D1 receptor antagonist SCH23390 and the NMDA antagonist AP5, either separately or together, at different time points of a relief conditioning procedure. First, we showed that SCH23390 dose-dependently blocked acquisition and the expression of conditioned relief. Next, we demonstrated that co-injections of SCH23390 and AP5 into the NAC, at doses that were ineffective when applied separately, blocked acquisition but not consolidation or expression of relief learning. Notably, neither of the injections affected the locomotor response of the animals to the aversive stimuli suggesting that their perception is not changed. This data indicates that a co-activation of dopamine D1 and NMDA receptors in the NAC is required for acquisition of relief learning.
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- Jorge R Bergado Acosta
- Institute for Pharmacology and Toxicology, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany
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- Institute for Pharmacology and Toxicology, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany
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- Institute for Pharmacology and Toxicology, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany; Integrative Neuroscience Program, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany
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- Institute for Pharmacology and Toxicology, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany; Integrative Neuroscience Program, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany
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- Institute for Pharmacology and Toxicology, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany; Center of Behavioral Brain Sciences, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany.
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