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Hisey E, Purkey A, Gao Y, Hossain K, Soderling SH, Ressler KJ. A Ventromedial Prefrontal-to-Lateral Entorhinal Cortex Pathway Modulates the Gain of Behavioral Responding During Threat. Biol Psychiatry 2023; 94:239-248. [PMID: 36925415 PMCID: PMC10354215 DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2023.01.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2022] [Revised: 01/11/2023] [Accepted: 01/11/2023] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
Abstract
BACKGROUND The ability to correctly associate cues and contexts with threat is critical for survival, and the inability to do so can result in threat-related disorders such as posttraumatic stress disorder. The prefrontal cortex (PFC) and hippocampus are well known to play critical roles in cued and contextual threat memory processing. However, the circuits that mediate prefrontal-hippocampal modulation of context discrimination during cued threat processing are less understood. Here, we demonstrate the role of a previously unexplored projection from the ventromedial region of PFC (vmPFC) to the lateral entorhinal cortex (LEC) in modulating the gain of behavior in response to contextual information during threat retrieval and encoding. METHODS We used optogenetics followed by in vivo calcium imaging in male C57/B6J mice to manipulate and monitor vmPFC-LEC activity in response to threat-associated cues in different contexts. We then investigated the inputs to, and outputs from, vmPFC-LEC cells using Rabies tracing and channelrhodopsin-assisted electrophysiology. RESULTS vmPFC-LEC cells flexibly and bidirectionally shaped behavior during threat expression, shaping sensitivity to contextual information to increase or decrease the gain of behavioral output in response to a threatening or neutral context, respectively. CONCLUSIONS Glutamatergic vmPFC-LEC cells are key players in behavioral gain control in response to contextual information during threat processing and may provide a future target for intervention in threat-based disorders.
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- Erin Hisey
- Department of Cell Biology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina; Department of Psychiatry, McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Belmont, Massachusetts
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- Department of Cell Biology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
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- Department of Cell Biology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
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- Department of Cell Biology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
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- Department of Cell Biology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina
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- Department of Psychiatry, McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Belmont, Massachusetts.
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Yun S, Soler I, Tran FH, Haas HA, Shi R, Bancroft GL, Suarez M, de Santis CR, Reynolds RP, Eisch AJ. Behavioral pattern separation and cognitive flexibility are enhanced in a mouse model of increased lateral entorhinal cortex-dentate gyrus circuit activity. Front Behav Neurosci 2023; 17:1151877. [PMID: 37324519 PMCID: PMC10267474 DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2023.1151877] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2023] [Accepted: 04/26/2023] [Indexed: 06/17/2023] Open
Abstract
Behavioral pattern separation and cognitive flexibility are essential cognitive abilities that are disrupted in many brain disorders. A better understanding of the neural circuitry involved in these abilities will open paths to treatment. In humans and mice, discrimination and adaptation rely on the integrity of the hippocampal dentate gyrus (DG) which receives glutamatergic input from the entorhinal cortex (EC), including the lateral EC (LEC). An inducible increase of EC-DG circuit activity improves simple hippocampal-dependent associative learning and increases DG neurogenesis. Here, we asked if the activity of LEC fan cells that directly project to the DG (LEC → DG neurons) regulates the relatively more complex hippocampal-dependent abilities of behavioral pattern separation or cognitive flexibility. C57BL/6J male mice received bilateral LEC infusions of a virus expressing shRNA TRIP8b, an auxiliary protein of an HCN channel or a control virus (SCR shRNA). Prior work shows that 4 weeks post-surgery, TRIP8b mice have more DG neurogenesis and greater activity of LEC → DG neurons compared to SCR shRNA mice. Here, 4 weeks post-surgery, the mice underwent testing for behavioral pattern separation and reversal learning (touchscreen-based location discrimination reversal [LDR]) and innate fear of open spaces (elevated plus maze [EPM]) followed by quantification of new DG neurons (doublecortin-immunoreactive cells [DCX+] cells). There was no effect of treatment (SCR shRNA vs. TRIP8b) on performance during general touchscreen training, LDR training, or the 1st days of LDR testing. However, in the last days of LDR testing, the TRIP8b shRNA mice had improved pattern separation (reached the first reversal more quickly and had more accurate discrimination) compared to the SCR shRNA mice, specifically when the load on pattern separation was high (lit squares close together or "small separation"). The TRIP8b shRNA mice were also more cognitively flexible (achieved more reversals) compared to the SCR shRNA mice in the last days of LDR testing. Supporting a specific influence on cognitive behavior, the SCR shRNA and TRIP8b shRNA mice did not differ in total distance traveled or in time spent in the closed arms of the EPM. Supporting an inducible increase in LEC-DG activity, DG neurogenesis was increased. These data indicate that the TRIP8b shRNA mice had better pattern separation and reversal learning and more neurogenesis compared to the SCR shRNA mice. This study advances fundamental and translational neuroscience knowledge relevant to two cognitive functions critical for adaptation and survival-behavioral pattern separation and cognitive flexibility-and suggests that the activity of LEC → DG neurons merits exploration as a therapeutic target to normalize dysfunctional DG behavioral output.
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- Sanghee Yun
- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States
- Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States
- University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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- Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States
- Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States
- Department of Neuroscience and Mahoney Institute for Neurosciences, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States
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Schmitt O, Eipert P, Wang Y, Kanoke A, Rabiller G, Liu J. Connectome-based prediction of functional impairment in experimental stroke models. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2023:2023.05.05.539601. [PMID: 37205373 PMCID: PMC10187266 DOI: 10.1101/2023.05.05.539601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Experimental rat models of stroke and hemorrhage are important tools to investigate cerebrovascular disease pathophysiology mechanisms, yet how significant patterns of functional impairment induced in various models of stroke are related to changes in connectivity at the level of neuronal populations and mesoscopic parcellations of rat brains remain unresolved. To address this gap in knowledge, we employed two middle cerebral artery occlusion models and one intracerebral hemorrhage model with variant extent and location of neuronal dysfunction. Motor and spatial memory function was assessed and the level of hippocampal activation via Fos immunohistochemistry. Contribution of connectivity change to functional impairment was analyzed for connection similarities, graph distances and spatial distances as well as the importance of regions in terms of network architecture based on the neuroVIISAS rat connectome. We found that functional impairment correlated with not only the extent but also the locations of the injury among the models. In addition, via coactivation analysis in dynamic rat brain models, we found that lesioned regions led to stronger coactivations with motor function and spatial learning regions than with other unaffected regions of the connectome. Dynamic modeling with the weighted bilateral connectome detected changes in signal propagation in the remote hippocampus in all 3 stroke types, predicting the extent of hippocampal hypoactivation and impairment in spatial learning and memory function. Our study provides a comprehensive analytical framework in predictive identification of remote regions not directly altered by stroke events and their functional implication.
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- Oliver Schmitt
- Medical School Hamburg - University of Applied Sciences, Department of Anatomy; University of Rostock, Institute of Anatomy
- SFVAMC, 1700 Owens Street, San Francisco, CA 94158
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- Medical School Hamburg - University of Applied Sciences, Department of Anatomy; University of Rostock, Institute of Anatomy
- SFVAMC, 1700 Owens Street, San Francisco, CA 94158
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- Department of Neurological Surgery, UCSF
- SFVAMC, 1700 Owens Street, San Francisco, CA 94158
- Department of Neurological Surgery, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, PR China, 100050
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- Department of Neurological Surgery, UCSF
- SFVAMC, 1700 Owens Street, San Francisco, CA 94158
- Department of Neurosurgery, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, 1-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8574, Japan
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- Department of Neurological Surgery, UCSF
- SFVAMC, 1700 Owens Street, San Francisco, CA 94158
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- Department of Neurological Surgery, UCSF
- SFVAMC, 1700 Owens Street, San Francisco, CA 94158
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Balbinot G, Haubrich J. Dorsal Hippocampal β-Adrenergic System Modulates Recognition Memory Reconsolidation. Neuroscience 2023; 516:91-99. [PMID: 36858308 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2023.02.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2022] [Revised: 02/15/2023] [Accepted: 02/20/2023] [Indexed: 03/02/2023]
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Targeting reconsolidation with propranolol, a blocker of β-adrenergic receptors (β-ARs), emerged as a potential treatment for maladaptive memories such as those involved in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Reconsolidation targeting treatments for PTSD are becoming a common practice in the clinic and it is important to unveil any side effects upon 'non-targeted' memories. While previous studies have focused on propranolol's effects on the reconsolidation of emotional/distressful memories, the present study asked whether propranolol is involved in the reconsolidation of recognition memories - by assessing its effects on distinct memory components and the role of the dorsal hippocampus. Rats performed an object recognition (OR) task where they were exposed to different objects: A and B presented during the sample phase; A and C presented during the reactivation phase; and D in combination of either A, B, or C during a final test. Intra-hippocampal injections of propranolol (5 µg or 10 µg) were conducted immediately after the reactivation session. Propranolol infusions consistently impaired the addition of novel information to the previously consolidated memory trace regardless of dose, and the retention of familiar objects was not affected. Higher doses of propranolol also hindered memory of a familiar object that was not presented during the reactivation session, but was previously placed at the same location where novel information was presented during reactivation. The present results shed light on the role of β-ARs on the reconsolidation of different memory components and argue for the need for further studies examining possible recognition memory deficits following propranolol treatment.
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- Gustavo Balbinot
- Brain Institute, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil; KITE Research Institute, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada; Krembil Research Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada.
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- Department of Neurophysiology, Medical Faculty, Ruhr-University, Bochum, Germany.
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Yun S, Soler I, Tran F, Haas HA, Shi R, Bancroft GL, Suarez M, de Santis CR, Reynolds RP, Eisch AJ. Behavioral pattern separation and cognitive flexibility are enhanced in a mouse model of increased lateral entorhinal cortex-dentate gyrus circuit activity. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2023:2023.01.26.525756. [PMID: 36747871 PMCID: PMC9900985 DOI: 10.1101/2023.01.26.525756] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
Abstract
Behavioral pattern separation and cognitive flexibility are essential cognitive abilities which are disrupted in many brain disorders. Better understanding of the neural circuitry involved in these abilities will open paths to treatment. In humans and mice, discrimination and adaptation rely on integrity of the hippocampal dentate gyrus (DG) which both receive glutamatergic input from the entorhinal cortex (EC), including the lateral EC (LEC). Inducible increase of EC-DG circuit activity improves simple hippocampal-dependent associative learning and increases DG neurogenesis. Here we asked if the activity of LEC fan cells that directly project to the DG (LEC➔DG neurons) regulates behavioral pattern separation or cognitive flexibility. C57BL6/J male mice received bilateral LEC infusions of a virus expressing shRNA TRIP8b, an auxiliary protein of an HCN channel or a control virus (SCR shRNA); this approach increases the activity of LEC➔DG neurons. Four weeks later, mice underwent testing for behavioral pattern separation and reversal learning (touchscreen-based Location Discrimination Reversal [LDR] task) and innate fear of open spaces (elevated plus maze [EPM]) followed by counting of new DG neurons (doublecortin-immunoreactive cells [DCX+] cells). TRIP8b and SCR shRNA mice performed similarly in general touchscreen training and LDR training. However, in late LDR testing, TRIP8b shRNA mice reached the first reversal more quickly and had more accurate discrimination vs. SCR shRNA mice, specifically when pattern separation was challenging (lit squares close together or "small separation"). Also, TRIP8b shRNA mice achieved more reversals in late LDR testing vs. SCR shRNA mice. Supporting a specific influence on cognitive behavior, SCR shRNA and TRIP8b shRNA mice did not differ in total distance traveled or in time spent in the closed arms of the EPM. Supporting an inducible increase in LEC-DG activity, DG neurogenesis was increased. These data indicate TRIP8b shRNA mice had better pattern separation and reversal learning and more neurogenesis vs. SCR shRNA mice. This work advances fundamental and translational neuroscience knowledge relevant to two cognitive functions critical for adaptation and survival - behavioral pattern separation and cognitive flexibility - and suggests the activity of LEC➔DG neurons merits exploration as a therapeutic target to normalize dysfunctional DG behavioral output.
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Aime M, Calcini N, Borsa M, Campelo T, Rusterholz T, Sattin A, Fellin T, Adamantidis A. Paradoxical somatodendritic decoupling supports cortical plasticity during REM sleep. Science 2022; 376:724-730. [PMID: 35549430 DOI: 10.1126/science.abk2734] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
Abstract
Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep is associated with the consolidation of emotional memories. Yet, the underlying neocortical circuits and synaptic mechanisms remain unclear. We found that REM sleep is associated with a somatodendritic decoupling in pyramidal neurons of the prefrontal cortex. This decoupling reflects a shift of inhibitory balance between parvalbumin neuron-mediated somatic inhibition and vasoactive intestinal peptide-mediated dendritic disinhibition, mostly driven by neurons from the central medial thalamus. REM-specific optogenetic suppression of dendritic activity led to a loss of danger-versus-safety discrimination during associative learning and a lack of synaptic plasticity, whereas optogenetic release of somatic inhibition resulted in enhanced discrimination and synaptic potentiation. Somatodendritic decoupling during REM sleep promotes opposite synaptic plasticity mechanisms that optimize emotional responses to future behavioral stressors.
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- Mattia Aime
- Zentrum für Experimentelle Neurologie, Department of Neurology, Inselspital University Hospital Bern, Bern, Switzerland.,Department of Biomedical Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Zentrum für Experimentelle Neurologie, Department of Neurology, Inselspital University Hospital Bern, Bern, Switzerland.,Department of Biomedical Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Zentrum für Experimentelle Neurologie, Department of Neurology, Inselspital University Hospital Bern, Bern, Switzerland.,Department of Biomedical Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Zentrum für Experimentelle Neurologie, Department of Neurology, Inselspital University Hospital Bern, Bern, Switzerland.,Department of Biomedical Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Zentrum für Experimentelle Neurologie, Department of Neurology, Inselspital University Hospital Bern, Bern, Switzerland.,Department of Biomedical Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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- Optical Approaches to Brain Function Laboratory, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova, Italy
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- Optical Approaches to Brain Function Laboratory, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova, Italy
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- Zentrum für Experimentelle Neurologie, Department of Neurology, Inselspital University Hospital Bern, Bern, Switzerland.,Department of Biomedical Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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Takehara-Nishiuchi K. Neuronal Code for Episodic Time in the Lateral Entorhinal Cortex. Front Integr Neurosci 2022; 16:899412. [PMID: 35573446 PMCID: PMC9099416 DOI: 10.3389/fnint.2022.899412] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2022] [Accepted: 04/11/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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- Kaori Takehara-Nishiuchi
- Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Department of Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Neuroscience Program, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
- *Correspondence: Kaori Takehara-Nishiuchi
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Persson BM, Ambrozova V, Duncan S, Wood ER, O’Connor AR, Ainge JA. Lateral entorhinal cortex lesions impair odor-context associative memory in male rats. J Neurosci Res 2022; 100:1030-1046. [PMID: 35187710 PMCID: PMC9302644 DOI: 10.1002/jnr.25027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2021] [Revised: 01/10/2022] [Accepted: 01/12/2022] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Lateral entorhinal cortex (LEC) has been hypothesized to process nonspatial, item information that is combined with spatial information from medial entorhinal cortex to form episodic memories within the hippocampus. Recent studies, however, have demonstrated that LEC has a role in integrating features of episodic memory prior to the hippocampus. While the precise role of LEC is still unclear, anatomical studies show that LEC is ideally placed to be a hub integrating multisensory information. The current study tests whether the role of LEC in integrating information extends to long-term multimodal item-context associations. In Experiment 1, male rats were trained on a context-dependent odor discrimination task, where two different contexts served as the cue to the correct odor. Rats were pretrained on the task and then received either bilateral excitotoxic LEC or sham lesions. Following surgery, rats were tested on the previously learned odor-context associations. Control rats showed good memory for the previously learned association but rats with LEC lesions showed significantly impaired performance relative to both their own presurgery performance and to control rats. Experiment 2 went on to test whether impairments in Experiment 1 were the result of LEC lesions impairing either odor or context memory retention alone. Male rats were trained on simple odor and context discrimination tasks that did not require integration of features to solve. Following surgery, both LEC and control rats showed good memory for previously learned odors and contexts. These data show that LEC is critical for long-term odor-context associative memory.
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- Bjorn M. Persson
- School of Psychology & NeuroscienceUniversity of St AndrewsSt AndrewsUK
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- School of Psychology & NeuroscienceUniversity of St AndrewsSt AndrewsUK
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- Centre for Discovery Brain SciencesUniversity of EdinburghEdinburghUK
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- School of Psychology & NeuroscienceUniversity of St AndrewsSt AndrewsUK
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- School of Psychology & NeuroscienceUniversity of St AndrewsSt AndrewsUK
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Differential Effects of Lateral and Medial Entorhinal Cortex Lesions on Trace, Delay and Contextual Fear Memories. Brain Sci 2021; 12:brainsci12010034. [PMID: 35053778 PMCID: PMC8773659 DOI: 10.3390/brainsci12010034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2021] [Revised: 12/23/2021] [Accepted: 12/24/2021] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The entorhinal cortex (EC), with connections to the hippocampus, amygdala, and neocortex, is a critical, yet still underexplored, contributor to fear memory. Previous research suggests possible heterogeneity of function among its lateral (LEC) and medial (MEC) subregions. However, it is not well established what unique roles these subregions serve as the literature has shown mixed results depending on target of manipulation and type of conditioning used. Few studies have manipulated both the LEC and MEC within the same experiment. The present experiment systematically manipulated LEC and MEC function to examine their potential roles in fear memory expression. Long-Evans rats were trained using either trace or delay fear conditioning. The following day, rats received an N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA)-induced lesion to the LEC or MEC or received a sham surgery. Following recovery, rats were given an 8-min context test in the original context. The next day, rats were tested for tone freezing in a novel context with three discrete tone presentations. Further, rats were tested for hyperactivity in an open field under both dark and bright light gradient conditions. Results: Following either LEC or MEC lesion, freezing to context was significantly reduced in both trace and delay conditioned rats. LEC-lesioned rats consistently showed significantly less freezing following tone-offset (trace interval, or equivalent, and intertrial interval) in both trace and delay fear conditioned rats. Conclusions: These data suggest that the LEC may play a role in the expression of a conjunctive representation between the tone and context that mediates the maintenance of post-tone freezing.
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Poitreau J, Buttet M, Manrique C, Poucet B, Sargolini F, Save E. Navigation using global or local reference frames in rats with medial and lateral entorhinal cortex lesions. Behav Brain Res 2021; 413:113448. [PMID: 34246711 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2021.113448] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2021] [Revised: 06/18/2021] [Accepted: 07/06/2021] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The medial (MEC) and the lateral (LEC) regions of the entorhinal cortex send a major input to the hippocampus and have been proposed to play a foremost role in combining spatial and non-spatial attributes of episodic memory. In addition, it has been recently suggested that the MEC is involved in the processing of information in a global reference frame and the LEC in the processing of information in a local reference frame. Whether these putative functions could be generalized to navigation contexts has not been established yet. To address this hypothesis, rats with MEC or LEC NMDA-induced lesions were trained in two versions of a navigation task in the water maze, a global cue condition in which they had to use distal room cues and a local cue condition in which they had to use 3 objects placed in the pool. In the global cue condition, MEC-lesioned rats exhibited slower acquisition and were not able to precisely locate the submerged platform during the probe trial. In contrast LEC-lesioned rats exhibited control-like performance. In the local cue condition, navigational abilities were spared in both lesion groups. In addition when the 3 different objects were replaced by 3 identical objects, all groups maintained their navigation accuracy suggesting that the identity of objects is not crucial for place navigation. Overall, the results indicate that the MEC is necessary for place navigation using a global reference frame. In contrast, navigation using a local reference frame does not require the LEC nor the MEC.
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- Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience, Marseille, France
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- Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience, Marseille, France
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- Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience, Marseille, France.
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Vyleta NP, Snyder JS. Prolonged development of long-term potentiation at lateral entorhinal cortex synapses onto adult-born neurons. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0253642. [PMID: 34143843 PMCID: PMC8213073 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0253642] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2021] [Accepted: 06/09/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
Abstract
Critical period plasticity at adult-born neuron synapses is widely believed to contribute to the learning and memory functions of the hippocampus. Experience regulates circuit integration and for a transient interval, until cells are ~6 weeks old, new neurons display enhanced long-term potentiation (LTP) at afferent and efferent synapses. Since neurogenesis declines substantially with age, this raises questions about the extent of lasting plasticity offered by adult-born neurons. Notably, however, the hippocampus receives sensory information from two major cortical pathways. Broadly speaking, the medial entorhinal cortex conveys spatial information to the hippocampus via the medial perforant path (MPP), and the lateral entorhinal cortex, via the lateral perforant path (LPP), codes for the cues and items that make experiences unique. While enhanced critical period plasticity at MPP synapses is relatively well characterized, no studies have examined long-term plasticity at LPP synapses onto adult-born neurons, even though the lateral entorhinal cortex is uniquely vulnerable to aging and Alzheimer's pathology. We therefore investigated LTP at LPP inputs both within (4-6 weeks) and beyond (8+ weeks) the traditional critical period. At immature stages, adult-born neurons did not undergo significant LTP at LPP synapses, and often displayed long-term depression after theta burst stimulation. However, over the course of 3-4 months, adult-born neurons displayed increasingly greater amounts of LTP. Analyses of short-term plasticity point towards a presynaptic mechanism, where transmitter release probability declines as cells mature, providing a greater dynamic range for strengthening synapses. Collectively, our findings identify a novel form of new neuron plasticity that develops over an extended interval, and may therefore be relevant for maintaining cognitive function in aging.
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- Nicholas P. Vyleta
- Department of Psychology, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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Sariah A, Pu W, Xue Z, Liu Z, Huang X. Reduced Cortical Thickness in the Right Caudal Middle Frontal Is Associated With Symptom Severity in Betel Quid-Dependent Chewers. Front Psychiatry 2020; 11:654. [PMID: 32754064 PMCID: PMC7366340 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00654] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2020] [Accepted: 06/24/2020] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Findings from brain structural imaging studies on betel quid dependence have supported relations between betel quid chewing and alterations in gray matter volume and white matter integrity. However, the effect of betel quid chewing on cortical thickness and the link between cortical thickness and symptom severity remains unascertained. METHODS In this observational study, we compared cortical thickness measures from 24 male betel quid-dependent chewers with 27 male healthy controls. Using FreeSufer, we obtained three-dimensional T1-weighted images that were used to compute the thickness of the cerebral cortex throughout the cortical layer. RESULTS Compared to healthy controls, betel quid dependent chewers displayed significant decreased cortical thickness in the precuneus, entorhinal, right paracentral, middle temporal, and caudal middle frontal gyri. Betel quid dependence scale scores negatively correlated (r = -0.604; p = 0.002) with reduced cortical thickness in the right caudal middle frontal of betel quid-dependent chewers. CONCLUSION The findings provide evidence for cortical thickness abnormality in betel dependent chewers and further propose that the severity of betel quid symptoms may be a critical aspect associated with the cortical alterations. The observed alterations may serve as potential mechanisms to explain why BQ chewing behavior is persistent among individuals with betel quid dependence.
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- Adellah Sariah
- National Clinical Research Centre for Mental Disorders, Institute of Mental Health and Department of Psychiatry, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, China.,Department of Mental Health and Psychiatric Nursing, Hubert Kairuki Memorial University, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
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- Medical Psychological Institute, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, China
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- National Clinical Research Centre for Mental Disorders, Institute of Mental Health and Department of Psychiatry, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, China
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- National Clinical Research Centre for Mental Disorders, Institute of Mental Health and Department of Psychiatry, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, China
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- National Clinical Research Centre for Mental Disorders, Institute of Mental Health and Department of Psychiatry, The Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, Changsha, China
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Vandrey B, Garden DLF, Ambrozova V, McClure C, Nolan MF, Ainge JA. Fan Cells in Layer 2 of the Lateral Entorhinal Cortex Are Critical for Episodic-like Memory. Curr Biol 2019; 30:169-175.e5. [PMID: 31839450 PMCID: PMC6947484 DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.11.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2019] [Revised: 10/11/2019] [Accepted: 11/07/2019] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Episodic memory requires different types of information to be bound together to generate representations of experiences. The lateral entorhinal cortex (LEC) and hippocampus are required for episodic-like memory in rodents [1, 2]. The LEC is critical for integrating spatial and contextual information about objects [2, 3, 4, 5, 6]. Further, LEC neurons encode objects in the environment and the locations where objects were previously experienced and generate representations of time during the encoding and retrieval of episodes [7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12]. However, it remains unclear how specific populations of cells within the LEC contribute to the integration of episodic memory components. Layer 2 (L2) of LEC manifests early pathology in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and related animal models [13, 14, 15, 16]. Projections to the hippocampus from L2 of LEC arise from fan cells in a superficial sub-layer (L2a) that are immunoreactive for reelin and project to the dentate gyrus [17, 18]. Here, we establish an approach for selectively targeting fan cells using Sim1:Cre mice. Whereas complete lesions of the LEC were previously found to abolish associative recognition memory [2, 3], we report that, after selective suppression of synaptic output from fan cells, mice can discriminate novel object-context configurations but are impaired in recognition of novel object-place-context associations. Our results suggest that memory functions are segregated between distinct LEC networks. Sim1:Cre mice provide access to DG-projecting fan cells in lateral entorhinal cortex Fan cells are not required for novel object or object-context recognition Fan cells are required to discriminate novel object-place-context configurations Episodic-like memory impairment is correlated with extent of fan-cell inactivation
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- Brianna Vandrey
- Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Hugh Robson Building, 15 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9XE, Scotland; School of Psychology & Neuroscience, University of St. Andrews, St. Mary's Quad, South Street, St. Andrews KY16 9JP, Scotland
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- Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Hugh Robson Building, 15 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9XE, Scotland
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- School of Psychology & Neuroscience, University of St. Andrews, St. Mary's Quad, South Street, St. Andrews KY16 9JP, Scotland
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- Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Hugh Robson Building, 15 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9XE, Scotland
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- Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Hugh Robson Building, 15 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9XE, Scotland.
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- School of Psychology & Neuroscience, University of St. Andrews, St. Mary's Quad, South Street, St. Andrews KY16 9JP, Scotland.
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Stellate Cells in the Medial Entorhinal Cortex Are Required for Spatial Learning. Cell Rep 2019; 22:1313-1324. [PMID: 29386117 PMCID: PMC5809635 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2018.01.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2017] [Revised: 12/05/2017] [Accepted: 01/02/2018] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Spatial learning requires estimates of location that may be obtained by path integration or from positional cues. Grid and other spatial firing patterns of neurons in the superficial medial entorhinal cortex (MEC) suggest roles in behavioral estimation of location. However, distinguishing the contributions of path integration and cue-based signals to spatial behaviors is challenging, and the roles of identified MEC neurons are unclear. We use virtual reality to dissociate linear path integration from other strategies for behavioral estimation of location. We find that mice learn to path integrate using motor-related self-motion signals, with accuracy that decreases steeply as a function of distance. We show that inactivation of stellate cells in superficial MEC impairs spatial learning in virtual reality and in a real world object location recognition task. Our results quantify contributions of path integration to behavior and corroborate key predictions of models in which stellate cells contribute to location estimation. Mice learn to estimate location by path integration and cue-based strategies Motor-related self-motion signals are used for path integration Accuracy of path integration decreases with distance Stellate cells in medial entorhinal cortex are required for spatial learning
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Save E, Sargolini F. Disentangling the Role of the MEC and LEC in the Processing of Spatial and Non-Spatial Information: Contribution of Lesion Studies. Front Syst Neurosci 2017; 11:81. [PMID: 29163076 PMCID: PMC5663729 DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2017.00081] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2017] [Accepted: 10/12/2017] [Indexed: 12/01/2022] Open
Abstract
It is now widely accepted that the entorhinal cortex (EC) plays a pivotal role in the processing of spatial information and episodic memory. The EC is segregated into two sub-regions, the medial EC (MEC) and the lateral EC (LEC) but a comprehensive understanding of their roles across multiple behavioral contexts remains unclear. Considering that it is still useful to investigate the impact of lesions of EC on behavior, we review the contribution of lesion approach to our knowledge of EC functions. We show that the MEC and LEC play different roles in the processing of spatial and non-spatial information. The MEC is necessary to the use of distal but not proximal landmarks during navigation and is crucial for path integration, in particular integration of linear movements. Consistent with predominant hypothesis, the LEC is important for combining the spatial and non-spatial aspects of the environment. However, object exploration studies suggest that the functional segregation between the MEC and the LEC is not as clearly delineated and is dependent on environmental and behavioral factors. Manipulation of environmental complexity and therefore of cognitive demand shows that the MEC and the LEC are not strictly necessary to the processing of spatial and non-spatial information. In addition we suggest that the involvement of these sub-regions can depend on the kind of behavior, i.e., navigation or exploration, exhibited by the animals. Thus, the MEC and the LEC work in a flexible manner to integrate the “what” and “where” information in episodic memory upstream the hippocampus.
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- Etienne Save
- Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience, Aix Marseille University, CNRS, LNC UMR 7291, Marseille, France
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- Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience, Aix Marseille University, CNRS, LNC UMR 7291, Marseille, France.,Institut Universitaire de France, Paris, France
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Mason EJ, Hussey EP, Molitor RJ, Ko PC, Donahue MJ, Ally BA. Family History of Alzheimer's Disease is Associated with Impaired Perceptual Discrimination of Novel Objects. J Alzheimers Dis 2017; 57:735-745. [PMID: 28304286 PMCID: PMC5389043 DOI: 10.3233/jad-160772] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
Abstract
Early detection may be the key to developing therapies that will combat Alzheimer's disease (AD). It has been consistently demonstrated that one of the main pathologies of AD, tau, is present in the brain decades before a clinical diagnosis. Tau pathology follows a stereotypical route through the medial temporal lobe beginning in the entorhinal and perirhinal cortices. If early pathology leads to very subtle changes in behavior, it may be possible to detect these changes in subjects years before a clinical diagnosis can currently be made. We aimed to discover if cognitively normal middle-aged adults (40-60 years old) at increased risk for AD due to family history would have impaired performance on a cognitive task known to challenge the perirhinal cortex. Using an oddity detection task, we found that subjects with a family history of AD had lowered accuracy without demonstrating differences in rate of acquisition. There were no differences between subjects' medial temporal lobe volume or cortical thickness, indicating that the changes in behavior were not due to significant atrophy. These results demonstrate that subtle changes in perceptual processing are detectable years before a typical diagnosis even when there are no differences detectable in structural imaging data. Anatomically-targeted cognitive testing may be useful in identifying subjects in the earliest stages of AD.
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- Emily J Mason
- Department of Neurology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.,Department of Psychiatry, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.,Department of Radiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Neurosurgery, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA
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Pilkiw M, Insel N, Cui Y, Finney C, Morrissey MD, Takehara-Nishiuchi K. Phasic and tonic neuron ensemble codes for stimulus-environment conjunctions in the lateral entorhinal cortex. eLife 2017; 6. [PMID: 28682237 PMCID: PMC5536943 DOI: 10.7554/elife.28611] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2017] [Accepted: 07/05/2017] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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The lateral entorhinal cortex (LEC) is thought to bind sensory events with the environment where they took place. To compare the relative influence of transient events and temporally stable environmental stimuli on the firing of LEC cells, we recorded neuron spiking patterns in the region during blocks of a trace eyeblink conditioning paradigm performed in two environments and with different conditioning stimuli. Firing rates of some neurons were phasically selective for conditioned stimuli in a way that depended on which room the rat was in; nearly all neurons were tonically selective for environments in a way that depended on which stimuli had been presented in those environments. As rats moved from one environment to another, tonic neuron ensemble activity exhibited prospective information about the conditioned stimulus associated with the environment. Thus, the LEC formed phasic and tonic codes for event-environment associations, thereby accurately differentiating multiple experiences with overlapping features. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.28611.001 The context in which an event occurs plays a large role in how the brain understands and responds to the event. While a key part of context is where we are, contexts can also change within the same space: different meetings are held at different times and with different people in the same room, and a grassy field can be a place of intense competition or a place to relax and gaze at clouds. However, we have little understanding of how the brain sets up and maintains a sense of context. A region of the brain called the lateral entorhinal cortex (LEC) responds to events as they happen, but may also maintain a record of past experiences, and helps us to learn new associations between events. To find out how LEC neurons might represent context, Pilkiw et al. measured the activity of individual LEC neurons in rats as they experienced different combinations of events and environments. In each trial, the rats were placed in one of two different rooms and exposed to one of two sensory cues (sound or light) six times, either alone or, to test learning, paired moments later with a mild stimulation to the eyelid. The gaps between the cues lasted from 20 to 40 seconds. As expected, some LEC neurons responded to the sensory cues, and varied their responses to cues depending on whether or not they were paired with eyelid stimulation. What was much more striking is that almost all cells in the LEC behaved very differently in different contexts, both in response to the cues and also during the long gaps between the cues. This suggests that the LEC provides the brain with information about the circumstances of an event, and may be the reason we expect different events under different circumstances – even if we are in the same place. We tend to underestimate how much we rely on context to remember events and to guide our behavior. Many disabling health conditions, including addiction, post-traumatic stress disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder, are affected by context. For example, people who are trying to overcome drug addiction can often reduce their cravings by avoiding places and situations in which they previously used the drug in question. Understanding how the LEC represents context may therefore help us to develop treatments that target this brain region in order to alter harmful behaviors. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.28611.002
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- Maryna Pilkiw
- Department of Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.,Department of Psychology, University of Montana, Missoula, United States
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- Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.,Neuroscience Program, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- Department of Cell and Systems Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.,Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.,Neuroscience Program, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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Chen Q, Luo F, Yue F, Xia J, Xiao Q, Liao X, Jiang J, Zhang J, Hu B, Gao D, He C, Hu Z. Histamine Enhances Theta-Coupled Spiking and Gamma Oscillations in the Medial Entorhinal Cortex Consistent With Successful Spatial Recognition. Cereb Cortex 2017; 28:2439-2457. [DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhx145] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2017] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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- Quanhui Chen
- Department of Physiology, Collaborative Innovation Center for Brain Science, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Department of Physiology, Collaborative Innovation Center for Brain Science, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Department of Physiology, Collaborative Innovation Center for Brain Science, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Department of Physiology, Collaborative Innovation Center for Brain Science, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Department of Physiology, Collaborative Innovation Center for Brain Science, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Brain Research Center, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Department of Basic Psychology, School of Psychology, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Department of Physiology, Collaborative Innovation Center for Brain Science, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Department of Physiology, Collaborative Innovation Center for Brain Science, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Department of Sleep and Psychology, Institute of Surgery Research, Daping Hospital, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Department of Physiology, Collaborative Innovation Center for Brain Science, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China
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- Department of Physiology, Collaborative Innovation Center for Brain Science, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China
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Kuruvilla MV, Ainge JA. Lateral Entorhinal Cortex Lesions Impair Local Spatial Frameworks. Front Syst Neurosci 2017; 11:30. [PMID: 28567006 PMCID: PMC5434111 DOI: 10.3389/fnsys.2017.00030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2017] [Accepted: 04/28/2017] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
Abstract
A prominent theory in the neurobiology of memory processing is that episodic memory is supported by contextually gated spatial representations in the hippocampus formed by combining spatial information from medial entorhinal cortex (MEC) with non-spatial information from lateral entorhinal cortex (LEC). However, there is a growing body of evidence from lesion and single-unit recording studies in rodents suggesting that LEC might have a role in encoding space, particularly the current and previous locations of objects within the local environment. Landmarks, both local and global, have been shown to control the spatial representations hypothesized to underlie cognitive maps. Consequently, it has recently been suggested that information processing within this network might be organized with reference to spatial scale with LEC and MEC providing information about local and global spatial frameworks respectively. In the present study, we trained animals to search for food using either a local or global spatial framework. Animals were re-tested on both tasks after receiving excitotoxic lesions of either the MEC or LEC. LEC lesioned animals were impaired in their ability to learn a local spatial framework task. LEC lesioned animals were also impaired on an object recognition (OR) task involving multiple local features but unimpaired at recognizing a single familiar object. Together, this suggests that LEC is involved in associating features of the local environment. However, neither LEC nor MEC lesions impaired performance on the global spatial framework task.
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- Maneesh V Kuruvilla
- School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of St AndrewsSt Andrews, UK
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- School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of St AndrewsSt Andrews, UK
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Rodo C, Sargolini F, Save E. Processing of spatial and non-spatial information in rats with lesions of the medial and lateral entorhinal cortex: Environmental complexity matters. Behav Brain Res 2017; 320:200-209. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2016.12.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2016] [Revised: 12/06/2016] [Accepted: 12/07/2016] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Yoo SW, Lee I. Functional double dissociation within the entorhinal cortex for visual scene-dependent choice behavior. eLife 2017; 6. [PMID: 28169828 PMCID: PMC5308889 DOI: 10.7554/elife.21543] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2016] [Accepted: 02/06/2017] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
Abstract
How visual scene memory is processed differentially by the upstream structures of the hippocampus is largely unknown. We sought to dissociate functionally the lateral and medial subdivisions of the entorhinal cortex (LEC and MEC, respectively) in visual scene-dependent tasks by temporarily inactivating the LEC and MEC in the same rat. When the rat made spatial choices in a T-maze using visual scenes displayed on LCD screens, the inactivation of the MEC but not the LEC produced severe deficits in performance. However, when the task required the animal to push a jar or to dig in the sand in the jar using the same scene stimuli, the LEC but not the MEC became important. Our findings suggest that the entorhinal cortex is critical for scene-dependent mnemonic behavior, and the response modality may interact with a sensory modality to determine the involvement of the LEC and MEC in scene-based memory tasks. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.21543.001
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- Seung-Woo Yoo
- Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
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Boisselier L, Ferry B, Gervais R. Respective role of the dorsal hippocampus and the entorhinal cortex during the recombination of previously learned olfactory-tactile associations in the rat. Learn Mem 2017; 24:24-34. [PMID: 27980073 PMCID: PMC5159655 DOI: 10.1101/lm.043299.116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2016] [Accepted: 08/17/2016] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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The hippocampal formation has been extensively described as a key component for object recognition in conjunction with place and context. The present study aimed at describing neural mechanisms in the hippocampal formation that support olfactory-tactile (OT) object discrimination in a task where space and context were not taken into account. The task consisted in discriminating one baited cup among three, each of them presenting overlapping olfactory or tactile elements. The experiment tested the involvement of the entorhinal cortex (EC) and the dorsal hippocampus (DH) in the acquisition of this cross-modal task, either with new items or with familiar but recombined items. The main results showed that DH inactivation or cholinergic muscarinic blockade in the DH selectively and drastically disrupted performance in the recombination task. EC inactivation impaired OT acquisition of any OT combinations while cholinergic blockade only delayed it. Control experiments showed that neither DH nor EC inactivation impaired unimodal olfactory or tactile tasks. As a whole, these data suggest that DH-EC interactions are of importance for flexibility of cross-modal representations with overlapping elements.
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- Lise Boisselier
- Centre de Recherche en Neuroscience de Lyon, Team CMO, CNRS UMR 5292, INSERM U 1028, Université Lyon 1, Université de Lyon, 69366 Lyon, France
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- Centre de Recherche en Neuroscience de Lyon, Team CMO, CNRS UMR 5292, INSERM U 1028, Université Lyon 1, Université de Lyon, 69366 Lyon, France
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- Centre de Recherche en Neuroscience de Lyon, Team CMO, CNRS UMR 5292, INSERM U 1028, Université Lyon 1, Université de Lyon, 69366 Lyon, France
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Schwarb H, Johnson CL, McGarry MDJ, Cohen NJ. Medial temporal lobe viscoelasticity and relational memory performance. Neuroimage 2016; 132:534-541. [PMID: 26931816 PMCID: PMC4970644 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.02.059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2015] [Revised: 01/15/2016] [Accepted: 02/21/2016] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Structural and functional imaging studies have been among converging lines of evidence demonstrating the importance of the hippocampus in successful memory performance. The advent of a novel neuroimaging technique - magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) - now makes it possible for us to investigate the relationship between the microstructural integrity of hippocampal tissue and successful memory processing. Mechanical properties of brain tissue estimated with MRE provide a measure of the integrity of the underlying tissue microstructure and have proven to be sensitive measures of tissue health in neurodegeneration. However, until recently, MRE methods lacked sufficient resolution necessary to accurately examine specific neuroanatomical structures in the brain, and thus could not contribute to examination of specific structure-function relationships. In this study, we took advantage of recent developments in MRE spatial resolution and mechanical inversion techniques to measure the viscoelastic properties of the human hippocampus in vivo, and investigated how these properties reflect hippocampal function. Our data reveal a strong relationship between relative elastic/viscous behavior of the hippocampus and relational memory performance (N=20). This is the first report linking the mechanical properties of brain tissue with functional performance.
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- Hillary Schwarb
- Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61081, USA.
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- Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61081, USA.
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- Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, 14 Engineering Drive, Hanover, NH 03755, USA
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- Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61081, USA
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Keene CS, Bladon J, McKenzie S, Liu CD, O'Keefe J, Eichenbaum H. Complementary Functional Organization of Neuronal Activity Patterns in the Perirhinal, Lateral Entorhinal, and Medial Entorhinal Cortices. J Neurosci 2016; 36:3660-75. [PMID: 27030753 PMCID: PMC4812128 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.4368-15.2016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2015] [Accepted: 02/16/2016] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
Abstract
UNLABELLED It is commonly conceived that the cortical areas of the hippocampal region are functionally divided into the perirhinal cortex (PRC) and the lateral entorhinal cortex (LEC), which selectively process object information; and the medial entorhinal cortex (MEC), which selectively processes spatial information. Contrary to this notion, in rats performing a task that demands both object and spatial information processing, single neurons in PRC, LEC, and MEC, including those in both superficial and deep cortical areas and in grid, border, and head direction cells of MEC, have a highly similar range of selectivity to object and spatial dimensions of the task. By contrast, representational similarity analysis of population activity reveals a key distinction in the organization of information in these areas, such that PRC and LEC populations prioritize object over location information, whereas MEC populations prioritize location over object information. These findings bring to the hippocampal system a growing emphasis on population analyses as a powerful tool for characterizing neural representations supporting cognition and memory. SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT Contrary to the common view that brain regions in the "what" and "where" streams distinctly process object and spatial cues, respectively, we found that both streams encode both object and spatial information but distinctly organize memories for objects and space. Specifically, perirhinal cortex and lateral entorhinal cortex represent objects and, within the object-specific representations, the locations where they occur. Conversely, medial entorhinal cortex represents relevant locations and, within those spatial representations, the objects that occupy them. Furthermore, these findings reach beyond simple notions of perirhinal cortex and lateral entorhinal cortex neurons as object detectors and MEC neurons as position detectors, and point to a more complex organization of memory representations within the medial temporal lobe system.
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- Christopher S Keene
- Center for Memory and Brain, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, and
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- Center for Memory and Brain, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, and
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- The Neuroscience Institute, New York University Langone Medical Center, New York, New York 10016
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- Center for Memory and Brain, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, and
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- Center for Memory and Brain, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, and
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- Center for Memory and Brain, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, and
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Tanninen SE, Yu X, Giritharan T, Tran L, Bakir R, Volle J, Morrissey MD, Takehara-Nishiuchi K. Cholinergic, but not NMDA, receptors in the lateral entorhinal cortex mediate acquisition in trace eyeblink conditioning. Hippocampus 2015; 25:1456-64. [PMID: 25865030 DOI: 10.1002/hipo.22466] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 04/06/2015] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
Abstract
Anatomical and electrophysiological studies collectively suggest that the entorhinal cortex consists of several subregions, each of which is involved in the processing of different types of information. Consistent with this idea, we previously reported that the dorsolateral portion of the entorhinal cortex (DLE), but not the caudomedial portion, is necessary for the expression of a memory association between temporally discontiguous stimuli in trace eyeblink conditioning (Morrissey et al. (2012) J Neurosci 32:5356-5361). The present study examined whether memory acquisition depends on the DLE and what types of local neurotransmitter mechanisms are involved in memory acquisition and expression. Male Long-Evans rats experienced trace eyeblink conditioning, in which an auditory conditioned stimulus (CS) was paired with a mildly aversive electric shock to the eyelid (US) with a stimulus-free interval of 500 ms. Immediately before the conditioning, the rats received a microinfusion of neuroreactive substances into the DLE. We found that reversible inactivation of the DLE with GABAA receptor agonist, muscimol impaired memory acquisition. Furthermore, blockade of local muscarinic acetylcholine receptors (mACh) with scopolamine retarded memory acquisition while blockade of local NMDA receptors with APV had no effect. Memory expression was not impaired by either type of receptor blocker. These results suggest that the DLE is necessary for memory acquisition, and that acquisition depends on the integrity of local mACh receptor-dependent firing modulation, but not NMDA receptor-dependent synaptic plasticity.
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- Department of Psychology, Toronto, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, Toronto, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, Toronto, Canada.,Neuroscience Program, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, Toronto, Canada.,Neuroscience Program, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.,Department of Cell and Systems Biology, Toronto, Canada
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Keeley RJ, Burger DK, Saucier DM, Iwaniuk AN. The size of non-hippocampal brain regions varies by season and sex in Richardson's ground squirrel. Neuroscience 2015; 289:194-206. [PMID: 25595988 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2014.12.077] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2014] [Revised: 11/29/2014] [Accepted: 12/18/2014] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
Abstract
Sex- and season-specific modulation of hippocampal size and function is observed across multiple species, including rodents. Other non-hippocampal-dependent behaviors exhibit season and sex differences, and whether the associated brain regions exhibit similar variation with sex and season remains to be fully characterized. As such, we examined the brains of wild-caught Richardson's ground squirrels (RGS; Urocitellus richardsonii) for seasonal (breeding, non-breeding) and sex differences in the volumes of specific brain areas, including: total brain volume, corpus callosum (CC), anterior commissure (AC), medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), total neocortex (NC), entorhinal cortex (EC), and superior colliculus (SC). Analyses of variance and covariance revealed significant interactions between season and sex for almost all areas studied, primarily resulting from females captured during the breeding season exhibiting larger volumes than females captured during the non-breeding season. This was observed for volumes of the AC, mPFC, NC, EC, and SC. Where simple main effects of season were observed for males (the NC and the SC), the volume advantage favoured males captured during the NBr season. Only two simple main effects of sex were observed: males captured in the non-breeding season had significantly larger total brain volume than females captured in the non-breeding season, and females captured during the breeding season had larger volumes of the mPFC and EC than males captured in the breeding season. These results indicate that females have more pronounced seasonal differences in brain and brain region sizes. The extent to which seasonal differences in brain region volumes vary with behaviour is unclear, but our data do suggest that seasonal plasticity is not limited to the hippocampus and that RGS is a useful mammalian species for understanding seasonal plasticity in an ecologically relevant context.
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Affiliation(s)
- R J Keeley
- Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience, University of Lethbridge, 4401 University Drive, Lethbridge, AB T1K 3M4, Canada.
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- Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience, University of Lethbridge, 4401 University Drive, Lethbridge, AB T1K 3M4, Canada
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- Faculty of Science, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Oshawa, ON L1H 7K4, Canada
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- Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience, University of Lethbridge, 4401 University Drive, Lethbridge, AB T1K 3M4, Canada
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