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Hernández-Recio S, Muñoz-Arnaiz R, López-Madrona V, Makarova J, Herreras O. Uncorrelated bilateral cortical input becomes timed across hippocampal subfields for long waves whereas gamma waves are largely ipsilateral. Front Cell Neurosci 2023; 17:1217081. [PMID: 37576568 PMCID: PMC10412937 DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2023.1217081] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2023] [Accepted: 07/11/2023] [Indexed: 08/15/2023] Open
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The role of interhemispheric connections along successive segments of cortico-hippocampal circuits is poorly understood. We aimed to obtain a global picture of spontaneous transfer of activity during non-theta states across several nodes of the bilateral circuit in anesthetized rats. Spatial discrimination techniques applied to bilateral laminar field potentials (FP) across the CA1/Dentate Gyrus provided simultaneous left and right readouts in five FP generators that reflect activity in specific hippocampal afferents and associative pathways. We used a battery of correlation and coherence analyses to extract complementary aspects at different time scales and frequency bands. FP generators exhibited varying bilateral correlation that was high in CA1 and low in the Dentate Gyrus. The submillisecond delays indicate coordination but not support for synaptic dependence of one side on another. The time and frequency characteristics of bilateral coupling were specific to each generator. The Schaffer generator was strongly bilaterally coherent for both sharp waves and gamma waves, although the latter maintained poor amplitude co-variation. The lacunosum-moleculare generator was composed of up to three spatially overlapping activities, and globally maintained high bilateral coherence for long but not short (gamma) waves. These two CA1 generators showed no ipsilateral relationship in any frequency band. In the Dentate Gyrus, strong bilateral coherence was observed only for input from the medial entorhinal areas, while those from the lateral entorhinal areas were largely asymmetric, for both alpha and gamma waves. Granger causality testing showed strong bidirectional relationships between all homonymous bilateral generators except the lateral entorhinal input and a local generator in the Dentate Gyrus. It also revealed few significant relationships between ipsilateral generators, most notably the anticipation of lateral entorhinal cortex toward all others. Thus, with the notable exception of the lateral entorhinal areas, there is a marked interhemispheric coherence primarily for slow envelopes of activity, but not for pulse-like gamma waves, except in the Schafer segment. The results are consistent with essentially different streams of activity entering from and returning to the cortex on each side, with slow waves reflecting times of increased activity exchange between hemispheres and fast waves generally reflecting ipsilateral processing.
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- Sara Hernández-Recio
- Laboratory of Experimental and Computational Neurophysiology, Department of Translational Neuroscience, Cajal Institute, CSIC, Madrid, Spain
- Program in Neuroscience, Autónoma de Madrid University-Cajal Institute, Madrid, Spain
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- Laboratory of Experimental and Computational Neurophysiology, Department of Translational Neuroscience, Cajal Institute, CSIC, Madrid, Spain
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- Laboratory of Experimental and Computational Neurophysiology, Department of Translational Neuroscience, Cajal Institute, CSIC, Madrid, Spain
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- Laboratory of Experimental and Computational Neurophysiology, Department of Translational Neuroscience, Cajal Institute, CSIC, Madrid, Spain
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Yang J, Liu Y, Fan Y, Shen D, Shen J, Fang G. High-Frequency Local Field Potential Oscillations May Modulate Aggressive Behaviors in Mice. BIOLOGY 2022; 11:1682. [PMID: 36421396 PMCID: PMC9687601 DOI: 10.3390/biology11111682] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2022] [Revised: 11/14/2022] [Accepted: 11/15/2022] [Indexed: 07/03/2024]
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Aggressive behavior is one of congenital social behaviors in many species, which could be promoted by social neglect or isolation in the early stages of life. Many brain regions including the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), medial amygdala (MeA) and ventromedial hypothalamus (VMH) are demonstrated to relate to aggressive behavior; however, the dynamic patterns of neural activities during the occurrence of this behavior remain unclear. In this study, 21-day-old male CD-1 mice were reared in social isolation conditions and cohousing conditions for two weeks. Aggressive behaviors of each subject were estimated by the resident-intruder test. Simultaneously, the local field potentials of mPFC, MeA and VMH were recorded for exploring differences in the relative power spectra of different oscillations when aggressive behaviors occurred. The results showed that the following: (1) Compared with the cohousing mice, the socially isolated mice exhibited more aggression. (2) Regardless of "time condition" (pre-, during- and post- attack), the relative power spectra of beta band in the cohousing mice were significantly greater than those in the socially isolated mice, and inversely, the relative power spectra of gamma band in the cohousing mice were significantly smaller than those in the socially isolated mice. (3) The bilateral mPFC exhibited significantly smaller beta power spectra but greater gamma power spectra compared with other brain areas regardless of rearing patterns. (4) For the right VMH of the socially isolated mice, the relative power spectra of the gamma band during attacks were significantly greater than those before attack. These results suggest that aggressive behaviors in mice could be shaped by rearing patterns and that high-frequency oscillations (beta and gamma bands) may engage in mediating aggressive behaviors in mice.
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- Jing Yang
- Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No.9 Section 4, Renmin Nan Road, Chengdu 610041, China
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- Sichuan Nursing Vocational College, No. 173 Longdu Nan Road, Chengdu 610100, China
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- Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No.9 Section 4, Renmin Nan Road, Chengdu 610041, China
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- Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No.9 Section 4, Renmin Nan Road, Chengdu 610041, China
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- Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No.9 Section 4, Renmin Nan Road, Chengdu 610041, China
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- Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No.9 Section 4, Renmin Nan Road, Chengdu 610041, China
- Key Laboratory of Southwest China Wildlife Resources Conservation (Ministry of Education), China West Normal University, No. 1 Shi Da Road, Nanchong 637009, China
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Mouly AM, Bouillot C, Costes N, Zimmer L, Ravel N, Litaudon P. PET Metabolic Imaging of Time-Dependent Reorganization of Olfactory Cued Fear Memory Networks in Rats. Cereb Cortex 2021; 32:2717-2728. [PMID: 34668524 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhab376] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/22/2021] [Revised: 09/15/2021] [Accepted: 09/16/2021] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Memory consolidation involves reorganization at both the synaptic and system levels. The latter involves gradual reorganization of the brain regions that support memory and has been mostly highlighted using hippocampal-dependent tasks. The standard memory consolidation model posits that the hippocampus becomes gradually less important over time in favor of neocortical regions. In contrast, this reorganization of circuits in amygdala-dependent tasks has been less investigated. Moreover, this question has been addressed using primarily lesion or cellular imaging approaches thus precluding the comparison of recent and remote memory networks in the same animals. To overcome this limitation, we used microPET imaging to characterize, in the same animals, the networks activated during the recall of a recent versus remote memory in an olfactory cued fear conditioning paradigm. The data highlighted the drastic difference between the extents of the two networks. Indeed, although the recall of a recent odor fear memory activates a large network of structures spanning from the prefrontal cortex to the cerebellum, significant activations during remote memory retrieval are limited to the piriform cortex. These results strongly support the view that amygdala-dependent memories also undergo system-level reorganization, and that sensory cortical areas might participate in the long-term storage of emotional memories.
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- Anne-Marie Mouly
- Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, CNRS UMR 5292, INSERM U1028, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Bron Cedex 69675, France
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- Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, CNRS UMR 5292, INSERM U1028, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Bron Cedex 69675, France.,CERMEP-Life Imaging, Bron Cedex 69677, France.,Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon 69002, France
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- Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, CNRS UMR 5292, INSERM U1028, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Bron Cedex 69675, France
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- Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, CNRS UMR 5292, INSERM U1028, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Bron Cedex 69675, France
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Cavelius M, Brunel T, Didier A. Lessons from behavioral lateralization in olfaction. Brain Struct Funct 2021; 227:685-696. [PMID: 34596756 PMCID: PMC8843900 DOI: 10.1007/s00429-021-02390-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2021] [Accepted: 09/19/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Sensory information, sampled by sensory organs positioned on each side of the body may play a crucial role in organizing brain lateralization. This question is of particular interest with regard to the growing evidence of alteration in lateralization in several psychiatric conditions. In this context, the olfactory system, an ancient, mostly ipsilateral and well-conserved system across phylogeny may prove an interesting model system to understand the behavioral significance of brain lateralization. Here, we focused on behavioral data in vertebrates and non-vertebrates, suggesting that the two hemispheres of the brain differentially processed olfactory cues to achieve diverse sensory operations, such as detection, discrimination, identification of behavioral valuable cues or learning. These include reports across different species on best performances with one nostril or the other or odorant active sampling by one nostril or the other, depending on odorants or contexts. In some species, hints from peripheral anatomical or functional asymmetry were proposed to explain these asymmetries in behavior. Instigations of brain activation or more rarely of brain connectivity evoked by odorants revealed a complex picture with regards to asymmetric patterns which is discussed with respect to behavioral data. Along the steps of the discussed literature, we propose avenues for future research.
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- Matthias Cavelius
- Lyon Neuroscience Research Center (CRNL), Neuropop Team, Lyon, France.,CNRS 5292, Inserm 1028, Lyon 1 University, Lyon, France
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- Lyon Neuroscience Research Center (CRNL), Neuropop Team, Lyon, France.,CNRS 5292, Inserm 1028, Lyon 1 University, Lyon, France
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- Lyon Neuroscience Research Center (CRNL), Neuropop Team, Lyon, France. .,CNRS 5292, Inserm 1028, Lyon 1 University, Lyon, France.
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Functional Relevance of Dual Olfactory Bulbs in Olfactory Coding. eNeuro 2021; 8:ENEURO.0070-21.2021. [PMID: 34413085 PMCID: PMC8422849 DOI: 10.1523/eneuro.0070-21.2021] [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] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2021] [Revised: 08/03/2021] [Accepted: 08/04/2021] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Bilateral convergence of external stimuli is a common feature of vertebrate sensory systems. This convergence of inputs from the bilateral receptive fields allows higher order sensory perception, such as depth perception in the vertebrate visual system and stimulus localization in the auditory system. The functional role of such bilateral convergence in the olfactory system is unknown. To test whether each olfactory bulb (OB) contributes a separate piece of olfactory information, and whether information from the bilateral OB is integrated, we synchronized the activation of OBs with blue light in mice expressing ChIEF in the olfactory sensory neurons (OSNs) and behaviorally assessed the relevance of dual OBs in olfactory perception. Our findings suggest that each OB contributes separate components of olfactory information, and the mice integrate the bilaterally synchronized olfactory information for olfactory identity.
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Thonnard D, Callaerts-Vegh Z, D'Hooge R. Effects of orbitofrontal cortex and ventral hippocampus disconnection on spatial reversal learning. Neurosci Lett 2021; 750:135711. [PMID: 33571575 DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2021.135711] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2020] [Revised: 02/01/2021] [Accepted: 02/03/2021] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Behavioural flexibility is a cognition-related function that enables subjects to adapt to a changing environment. Orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) and hippocampus (HC) have been involved in cognitive flexibility, but the interaction between these structures might be of particular functional significance. We applied a disconnection model in C57BL/6JRj mice to investigate the importance of OFC and ventral HC (vHC) interaction. Spatial acquisition and reversal performance in the Morris water maze (MWM) was compared between animals with small contralateral excitotoxic lesions to OFC and vHC, ipsilateral lesions (i.e., OFC-vHC lesions in the same hemisphere), as well as small bilateral OFC or vHC lesions. Spatial learning and memory performance was mostly unimpaired or only slightly impaired in our brain-lesioned animals compared to sham-lesioned control mice. However, contralaterally lesioned mice were significantly impaired during the early phase of reversal learning, whereas the other lesion groups performed similar to controls. These mice might also have experienced some difficulties using cognitively advanced search strategies. Additional non-mnemonic tests indicated that none of the defects could be reduced to motor, motivational or anxiety-related changes. Our findings support the particular role of PFC-HC interaction in advanced cognitive processes and flexibility.
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- David Thonnard
- Laboratory of Biological Psychology, University of Leuven, Belgium
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- Laboratory of Biological Psychology, University of Leuven, Belgium.
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Differential functional connectivity underlying asymmetric reward-related activity in human and nonhuman primates. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2020; 117:28452-28462. [PMID: 33122437 PMCID: PMC7668182 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2000759117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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The orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) is a key brain region involved in complex cognitive functions such as reward processing and decision making. Neuroimaging studies have reported unilateral OFC response to reward-related variables; however, those studies rarely discussed this observation. Nevertheless, some lesion studies suggest that the left and right OFC contribute differently to cognitive processes. We hypothesized that the OFC asymmetrical response to reward could reflect underlying hemispherical difference in OFC functional connectivity. Using resting-state and reward-related functional MRI data from humans and from rhesus macaques, we first identified an asymmetrical response of the lateral OFC to reward in both species. Crucially, the subregion showing the highest reward-related asymmetry (RRA) overlapped with the region showing the highest functional connectivity asymmetry (FCA). Furthermore, the two types of asymmetries were found to be significantly correlated across individuals. In both species, the right lateral OFC was more connected to the default mode network compared to the left lateral OFC. Altogether, our results suggest a functional specialization of the left and right lateral OFC in primates.
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Hou H, Zhang X, Meng Q. Olfactory EEG Signal Classification Using a Trapezoid Difference-Based Electrode Sequence Hashing Approach. Int J Neural Syst 2020; 30:2050011. [PMID: 32116092 DOI: 10.1142/s0129065720500112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Olfactory-induced electroencephalogram (EEG) signal classification is of great significance in a variety of fields, such as disorder treatment, neuroscience research, multimedia applications and brain-computer interface. In this paper, a trapezoid difference-based electrode sequence hashing method is proposed for olfactory EEG signal classification. First, an N-layer trapezoid feature set whose size ratio of the top, bottom and height is 1:2:1 is constructed for each frequency band of each EEG sample. This construction is based on N optimized power-spectral-density features extracted from N real electrodes and N nonreal electrode's features. Subsequently, the N real electrodes' sequence (ES) codes of each layer of the constructed trapezoid feature set are obtained by arranging the feature values in ascending order. Finally, the nearest neighbor classification is used to find a class whose ES codes are the most similar to those of the testing sample. Thirteen-class olfactory EEG signals collected from 11 subjects are used to compare the classification performance of the proposed method with six traditional classification methods. The comparison shows that the proposed method gives average accuracy of 94.3%, Cohen's kappa value of 0.94, precision of 95.0%, and F1-measure of 94.6%, which are higher than those of the existing methods.
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- Huirang Hou
- Tianjin Key Laboratory of Process Measurement and Control, Institute of Robotics and Autonomous Systems, School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, P. R. China
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- Tianjin Key Laboratory of Process Measurement and Control, Institute of Robotics and Autonomous Systems, School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, P. R. China
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- Tianjin Key Laboratory of Process Measurement and Control, Institute of Robotics and Autonomous Systems, School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, P. R. China
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Unmasking the relevance of hemispheric asymmetries—Break on through (to the other side). Prog Neurobiol 2020; 192:101823. [DOI: 10.1016/j.pneurobio.2020.101823] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2020] [Revised: 04/17/2020] [Accepted: 05/13/2020] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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Fourcaud-Trocmé N, Lefèvre L, Garcia S, Messaoudi B, Buonviso N. High beta rhythm amplitude in olfactory learning signs a well-consolidated and non-flexible behavioral state. Sci Rep 2019; 9:20259. [PMID: 31889074 PMCID: PMC6937317 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-56340-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2019] [Accepted: 12/07/2019] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Beta rhythm (15-30 Hz) is a major candidate underlying long-range communication in the brain. In olfactory tasks, beta activity is strongly modulated by learning but its condition of expression and the network(s) responsible for its generation are unclear. Here we analyzed the emergence of beta activity in local field potentials recorded from olfactory, sensorimotor and limbic structures of rats performing an olfactory task. Rats performed successively simple discrimination, rule transfer, memory recall tests and contingency reversal. Beta rhythm amplitude progressively increased over learning in most recorded areas. Beta amplitude reduced to baseline when new odors were introduced, but remained high during memory recall. Intra-session analysis showed that even expert rats required several trials to reach a good performance level, with beta rhythm amplitude increasing in parallel. Notably, at the beginning of the reversal task, beta amplitude remained high while performance was low and, in all tested animals, beta amplitude decreased before rats were able to learn the new contingencies. Connectivity analysis showed that beta activity was highly coherent between all structures where it was expressed. Overall, our results suggest that beta rhythm is expressed in a highly coherent network when context learning - including both odors and reward - is consolidated and signals behavioral inflexibility.
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- Nicolas Fourcaud-Trocmé
- Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, Inserm U 1028, CNRS UMR 5292, University Lyon 1, Bron, 69675, France.
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- Medical Research Council Brain Network Dynamics Unit, University of Oxford, OX1 3TH, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, Inserm U 1028, CNRS UMR 5292, University Lyon 1, Bron, 69675, France
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- Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, Inserm U 1028, CNRS UMR 5292, University Lyon 1, Bron, 69675, France
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- Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, Inserm U 1028, CNRS UMR 5292, University Lyon 1, Bron, 69675, France
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(1) Background: Although olfaction is the predominant sensory modality in rodents, studies focusing on lateralisation of olfactory processing remain scarce, and they are limited to the exploration of brain asymmetries. This study aimed to test whether outbred and inbred mice (NMRI and C57BL/6J mice strains) show nostril-use preference in processing olfactory stimuli differing in terms of emotional valence under unrestrained conditions. (2) Methods: Five odour stimuli were used in the study: vanilla, female urine, garlic, rat, distilled water. We measured the number of times mice used their left or right nostril for each testing session. (3) Results: We here showed that mice preferentially used their right nostril when sniffing attractive stimuli (female urine, vanilla), and their left nostril when sniffing aversive stimuli (rat odour). Results were consistent for both strains. (4) Conclusions: Surprisingly, the results obtained seem opposite to the valence theory assessing that the left and the right hemispheres are dominant in processing stimuli with a positive and a negative valence, respectively. It remains to be determined whether this valence-dependent pattern is specific or not to olfaction in mice. These new findings will be important to better understand how both hemispheres contribute to odour processing in rodents.
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Odor Identification in Rats: Behavioral and Electrophysiological Evidence of Learned Olfactory-Auditory Associations. eNeuro 2019; 6:ENEURO.0102-19.2019. [PMID: 31362955 PMCID: PMC6709214 DOI: 10.1523/eneuro.0102-19.2019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2019] [Revised: 06/28/2019] [Accepted: 07/15/2019] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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The ability to recognize and identify a smell is highly dependent on multisensory context and expectation, for example, hearing the name of the odor source. Here, we develop a novel auditory-odor association task in rats, wherein the animal learns that a specific auditory tone, when associated with a specific odor, predicts reward (Go signal), whereas the same tone associated with a different odor, or vice versa, is not (No-Go signal). The tone occurs prior to the onset of the odor, allowing physiological analyses of sensory-evoked local field potential (LFP) activity to each stimulus in primary auditory cortex and anterior piriform cortex (aPCX). In trained animals that have acquired the task, both auditory and subsequent olfactory cues activate β band oscillations in both the auditory cortex and PCX, suggesting multisensory integration. Naive animals show no such multisensory responses, suggesting the response is learned. In addition to the learned multisensory evoked responses, functional connectivity between auditory cortex and PCX, as assessed with spectral coherence and phase lag index (PLI), is enhanced. Importantly, both the multi-sensory evoked responses and the functional connectivity are context-dependent. In trained animals, the same auditory stimuli presented in the home cage evoke no responses in auditory cortex or PCX, and functional connectivity between the sensory cortices is reduced. Together, the results demonstrate how learning and context shape the expression of multisensory cortical processing. Given that odor identification impairment is associated with preclinical dementia in humans, the mechanisms suggested here may help develop experimental models to assess effects of neuropathology on behavior.
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Courtiol E, Neiman M, Fleming G, Teixeira CM, Wilson DA. A specific olfactory cortico-thalamic pathway contributing to sampling performance during odor reversal learning. Brain Struct Funct 2018; 224:961-971. [PMID: 30506279 DOI: 10.1007/s00429-018-1807-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2018] [Accepted: 11/27/2018] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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A growing body of evidence shows that olfactory information is processed within a thalamic nucleus in both rodents and humans. The mediodorsal thalamic nucleus (MDT) receives projections from olfactory cortical areas including the piriform cortex (PCX) and is interconnected with the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC). Using electrophysiology in freely moving rats, we recently demonstrated the representation of olfactory information in the MDT and the dynamics of functional connectivity between the PCX, MDT and OFC. Notably, PCX-MDT coupling is specifically increased during odor sampling of an odor discrimination task. However, whether this increase of coupling is functionally relevant is unknown. To decipher the importance of PCX-MDT coupling during the sampling period, we used optogenetics to specifically inactivate the PCX inputs to MDT during an odor discrimination task and its reversal in rats. We demonstrate that inactivating the PCX inputs to MDT does not affect the performance accuracy of an odor discrimination task and its reversal, however, it does impact the rats' sampling duration. Indeed, rats in which PCX inputs to MDT were inactivated during the sampling period display longer sampling duration during the odor reversal learning compared to controls-an effect not observed when inactivating OFC inputs to MDT. We demonstrate a causal link between the PCX inputs to MDT and the odor sampling performance, highlighting the importance of this specific cortico-thalamic pathway in olfaction.
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- Emmanuelle Courtiol
- Emotional Brain Institute, Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, 140 Old Orangeburg Road, Orangeburg, NY, 10962, USA. .,Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, New York Langone Medical Center, 1 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, USA. .,Neuroscience Research Center of Lyon, Team CMO, CNRS UMR 5292-INSERM U1028-Université Lyon 1, 50 Avenue Tony Garnier, 69366, Lyon Cedex 07, France.
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- Emotional Brain Institute, Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, 140 Old Orangeburg Road, Orangeburg, NY, 10962, USA
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- Emotional Brain Institute, Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, 140 Old Orangeburg Road, Orangeburg, NY, 10962, USA
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- Emotional Brain Institute, Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, 140 Old Orangeburg Road, Orangeburg, NY, 10962, USA.,Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, New York Langone Medical Center, 1 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, USA
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- Emotional Brain Institute, Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, 140 Old Orangeburg Road, Orangeburg, NY, 10962, USA.,Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, New York Langone Medical Center, 1 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10016, USA
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Grobman M, Dalal T, Lavian H, Shmuel R, Belelovsky K, Xu F, Korngreen A, Haddad R. A Mirror-Symmetric Excitatory Link Coordinates Odor Maps across Olfactory Bulbs and Enables Odor Perceptual Unity. Neuron 2018; 99:800-813.e6. [PMID: 30078580 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2018.07.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2018] [Revised: 05/11/2018] [Accepted: 07/06/2018] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Sensory input reaching the brain from bilateral and offset channels is nonetheless perceived as unified. This unity could be explained by simultaneous projections to both hemispheres, or inter-hemispheric information transfer between sensory cortical maps. Odor input, however, is not topographically organized, nor does it project bilaterally, making olfactory perceptual unity enigmatic. Here we report a circuit that interconnects mirror-symmetric isofunctional mitral/tufted cells between the mouse olfactory bulbs. Connected neurons respond to similar odors from ipsi- and contra-nostrils, whereas unconnected neurons do not respond to odors from the contralateral nostril. This connectivity is likely mediated through a one-to-one mapping from mitral/tufted neurons to the ipsilateral anterior olfactory nucleus pars externa, which activates the mirror-symmetric isofunctional mitral/tufted neurons glutamatergically. This circuit enables sharing of odor information across hemispheres in the absence of a cortical topographical organization, suggesting that olfactory glomerular maps are the equivalent of cortical sensory maps found in other senses.
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- Mark Grobman
- The Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 5290002, Israel
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- The Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 5290002, Israel
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- The Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 5290002, Israel
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- The Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 5290002, Israel
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- The Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 5290002, Israel
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- State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligent Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071, China
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- The Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 5290002, Israel; The Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 5290002, Israel
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- The Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 5290002, Israel.
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