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Huang J, Zhang Y, Zhang Q, Wei L, Zhang X, Jin C, Yang J, Li Z, Liang S. The current status and trend of the functional magnetic resonance combined with stimulation in animals. Front Neurosci 2022; 16:963175. [PMID: 36213733 PMCID: PMC9540855 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2022.963175] [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: 06/07/2022] [Accepted: 08/05/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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As a non-radiative, non-invasive imaging technique, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has excellent effects on studying the activation of blood oxygen levels and functional connectivity of the brain in human and animal models. Compared with resting-state fMRI, fMRI combined with stimulation could be used to assess the activation of specific brain regions and the connectivity of specific pathways and achieve better signal capture with a clear purpose and more significant results. Various fMRI methods and specific stimulation paradigms have been proposed to investigate brain activation in a specific state, such as electrical, mechanical, visual, olfactory, and direct brain stimulation. In this review, the studies on animal brain activation using fMRI combined with different stimulation methods were retrieved. The instruments, experimental parameters, anesthesia, and animal models in different stimulation conditions were summarized. The findings would provide a reference for studies on estimating specific brain activation using fMRI combined with stimulation.
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Weiss C, Bertolino N, Procissi D, Disterhoft JF. Brain activity studied with magnetic resonance imaging in awake rabbits. FRONTIERS IN NEUROIMAGING 2022; 1:965529. [PMID: 37555136 PMCID: PMC10406271 DOI: 10.3389/fnimg.2022.965529] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2022] [Accepted: 08/08/2022] [Indexed: 08/10/2023]
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We reviewed fMRI experiments from our previous work in conscious rabbits, an experimental preparation that is advantageous for measuring brain activation that is free of anesthetic modulation and which can address questions in a variety of areas in sensory, cognitive, and pharmacological neuroscience research. Rabbits do not struggle or move for several hours while sitting with their heads restrained inside the horizontal bore of a magnet. This greatly reduces movement artifacts in magnetic resonance (MR) images in comparison to other experimental animals such as rodents, cats, and monkeys. We have been able to acquire high-resolution anatomic as well as functional images that are free of movement artifacts during several hours of restraint. Results from conscious rabbit fMRI studies with whisker stimulation are provided to illustrate the feasibility of this conscious animal model for functional MRI and the reproducibility of data gained with it.
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- Craig Weiss
- Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, United States
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Chen PC, Shoa KH, Jao JC, Hsiao CC. Dynamic magnetic resonance imaging of carbogen challenge on awake rabbit brain at 1.5T. JOURNAL OF X-RAY SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 2018; 26:997-1009. [PMID: 30223421 DOI: 10.3233/xst-180395] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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BACKGROUND Anesthesia may alter the cellular components contributing to the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) signal intensities. Developing awake animal models to evaluate cerebral function has grown in importance. OBJECTIVE To investigate a noninvasive strategy for dynamic MRI (dMRI) of awake rabbits during carbogen challenge. METHODS A nonmetallic assistive device with a self-adhering wrap secure procedure was developed for the head fixation of awake rabbits. Multi-shot gradient echo echo-planar imaging sequence was applied for the dMRI on a 1.5 T clinical MRI scanner with a quadrature head coil. The carbogen challenge pattern was applied in a sequence of air - carbogen - air - carbogen - air. Twelve scans were performed for each block of carbogen challenge. T2-weighted fast-spin echo and T1-weighted gradient echo sequences were performed before and after dMRI to evaluate the head position shifts. The whole dMRI scan time was about 30 minutes. RESULTS The position shift of 8 rabbits in the x-and y-direction was less than 3%. The average MRI signal intensities (SI) from the 8 rabbits during carbogen challenge was fitted well using exponential growth and decay functions. The average MRI SI increase due to carbogen inhaling was 1.51%. CONCLUSIONS The proposed strategy for head dMRI on an awake rabbit during carbogen challenge is feasible.
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- Po-Chou Chen
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, I-Shou University, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan, ROC
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- Department of Radiology, Jhong Jheng Orthopedic Hospital, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan, ROC
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- Department of Medical Imaging and Radiological Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan, ROC
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- Department of Radiology, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan, ROC
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Weiss C, Procissi D, Power JM, Disterhoft JF. The rabbit as a behavioral model system for magnetic resonance imaging. J Neurosci Methods 2017; 300:196-205. [PMID: 28552515 DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2017.05.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2017] [Revised: 05/17/2017] [Accepted: 05/22/2017] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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BACKGROUND fMRI requires that subjects not move during image acquisition. This has been achieved by instructing people not to move, or by anesthetizing experimental animal subjects to induce immobility. We have demonstrated that a surgically implanted headbolt onto the skull of a rabbit allows their brain to be imaged comfortably while the animal is awake. This article provides a detailed method for the preparation. NEW METHOD We took advantage of the rabbit's tolerance for restraint to image the brain while holding the head at the standard stereotaxic angle. Visual stimulation was produced by flashing green LEDs and whisker stimulation was done by powering a small coil of wire attached to a fiber band. Blinking was recorded with an infrared emitter/detector directed at the eye with fiber-optic cabling. RESULTS Results indicate that a single daily session of habituation is sufficient to produce adequate immobility on subsequent days to avoid movement artifacts. Results include high resolution images in the stereotaxic plane of the rabbit. COMPARISON WITH EXISTING METHOD(S) We see no degradation or distortion of MR signal, and the headbolt provides a means for rapid realignment of the head in the magnet from day to day, and across subjects. The use of rabbits instead of rodents allows much shorter periods of habituation, and the rabbit allows behavior to be observed during the day while the animal is in its normal wake cycle. CONCLUSIONS The natural tolerance of the rabbit for restraint makes it a valuable subject for MRI studies of the brain.
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- Craig Weiss
- Department of Physiology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, 303 E. Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611, USA.
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- Department of Radiology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, 303 E. Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
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- Translational Neuroscience Facility & Department of Physiology, School of Medical Sciences, UNSW Australia, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
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- Department of Physiology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, 303 E. Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611, USA
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Aksenov DP, Miller MJ, Li L, Wyrwicz AM. Eyeblink classical conditioning and BOLD fMRI of anesthesia-induced changes in the developing brain. Physiol Behav 2016; 167:10-15. [PMID: 27591109 DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2016.08.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2016] [Revised: 07/21/2016] [Accepted: 08/29/2016] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Millions of children undergo general anesthesia each year in the USA alone, and a growing body of literature from animals and humans suggests that exposure to anesthesia at an early age can impact neuronal development, leading to learning and memory impairments later in childhood. Although a number of studies have reported behavioral and structural effects of anesthesia exposure during infancy, the functional manifestation of these changes has not been previous examined. In this study we used BOLD fMRI to measure the functional response to stimulation in the whisker barrel cortex of awake rabbits before and after learning a trace eyeblink classical conditioning paradigm. The functional changes, in terms of activated volume and time course, in rabbits exposed to isoflurane anesthesia during infancy was compared to unanesthetized controls when both groups reached young adulthood. Our findings show that whereas both groups exhibited decreased BOLD response duration after learning, the anesthesia-exposed group also showed a decrease in BOLD response volume in the whisker barrel cortex, particularly in the deeper infragranular layer. These results suggest that anesthesia exposure during infancy may affect the intracortical processes that mediate learning-related plasticity.
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- NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, IL, 60201, USA
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- NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, IL, 60201, USA
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Elias GA, Bieszczad KM, Weinberger NM. Learning strategy refinement reverses early sensory cortical map expansion but not behavior: Support for a theory of directed cortical substrates of learning and memory. Neurobiol Learn Mem 2015; 126:39-55. [PMID: 26596700 DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2015.10.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2015] [Revised: 10/05/2015] [Accepted: 10/14/2015] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Primary sensory cortical fields develop highly specific associative representational plasticity, notably enlarged area of representation of reinforced signal stimuli within their topographic maps. However, overtraining subjects after they have solved an instrumental task can reduce or eliminate the expansion while the successful behavior remains. As the development of this plasticity depends on the learning strategy used to solve a task, we asked whether the loss of expansion is due to the strategy used during overtraining. Adult male rats were trained in a three-tone auditory discrimination task to bar-press to the CS+ for water reward and refrain from doing so during the CS- tones and silent intertrial intervals; errors were punished by a flashing light and time-out penalty. Groups acquired this task to a criterion within seven training sessions by relying on a strategy that was "bar-press from tone-onset-to-error signal" ("TOTE"). Three groups then received different levels of overtraining: Group ST, none; Group RT, one week; Group OT, three weeks. Post-training mapping of their primary auditory fields (A1) showed that Groups ST and RT had developed significantly expanded representational areas, specifically restricted to the frequency band of the CS+ tone. In contrast, the A1 of Group OT was no different from naïve controls. Analysis of learning strategy revealed this group had shifted strategy to a refinement of TOTE in which they self-terminated bar-presses before making an error ("iTOTE"). Across all animals, the greater the use of iTOTE, the smaller was the representation of the CS+ in A1. Thus, the loss of cortical expansion is attributable to a shift or refinement in strategy. This reversal of expansion was considered in light of a novel theoretical framework (CONCERTO) highlighting four basic principles of brain function that resolve anomalous findings and explaining why even a minor change in strategy would involve concomitant shifts of involved brain sites, including reversal of cortical expansion.
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- Gabriel A Elias
- Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory and Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697-3800, United States
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- Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory and Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697-3800, United States; Behavioral and Systems Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8020, United States
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- Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory and Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697-3800, United States.
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Song X, Panych LP, Chen NK. Spatially regularized machine learning for task and resting-state fMRI. J Neurosci Methods 2015; 257:214-28. [PMID: 26470627 DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2015.10.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2015] [Revised: 09/10/2015] [Accepted: 10/02/2015] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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BACKGROUND Reliable mapping of brain function across sessions and/or subjects in task- and resting-state has been a critical challenge for quantitative fMRI studies although it has been intensively addressed in the past decades. NEW METHOD A spatially regularized support vector machine (SVM) technique was developed for the reliable brain mapping in task- and resting-state. Unlike most existing SVM-based brain mapping techniques, which implement supervised classifications of specific brain functional states or disorders, the proposed method performs a semi-supervised classification for the general brain function mapping where spatial correlation of fMRI is integrated into the SVM learning. The method can adapt to intra- and inter-subject variations induced by fMRI nonstationarity, and identify a true boundary between active and inactive voxels, or between functionally connected and unconnected voxels in a feature space. RESULTS The method was evaluated using synthetic and experimental data at the individual and group level. Multiple features were evaluated in terms of their contributions to the spatially regularized SVM learning. Reliable mapping results in both task- and resting-state were obtained from individual subjects and at the group level. COMPARISON WITH EXISTING METHODS A comparison study was performed with independent component analysis, general linear model, and correlation analysis methods. Experimental results indicate that the proposed method can provide a better or comparable mapping performance at the individual and group level. CONCLUSIONS The proposed method can provide accurate and reliable mapping of brain function in task- and resting-state, and is applicable to a variety of quantitative fMRI studies.
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- Xiaomu Song
- Department of Electrical Engineering, School of Engineering, Widener University, Kirkbride Hall, Room 369, One University Place, Chester, PA 19013, United States.
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- Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, United States
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- Brain Imaging and Analysis Center, Duke University Medical Center, Box 3918, Hock Plaza, Durham, NC 27710, United States
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Visual Interhemispheric and Striate-Extrastriate Cortical Connections in the Rabbit: A Multiple Tracer Study. Neurol Res Int 2015; 2015:591245. [PMID: 26435850 PMCID: PMC4578745 DOI: 10.1155/2015/591245] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2015] [Accepted: 08/10/2015] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Previous studies in rabbits identified an array of extrastriate cortical areas anatomically connected with V1 but did not describe their internal topography. To address this issue, we injected multiple anatomical tracers into different regions in V1 of the same animal and analyzed the topography of resulting extrastriate labeled fields with reference to the patterns of callosal connections and myeloarchitecture revealed in tangential sections of the flattened cortex. Our results extend previous studies and provide further evidence that rabbit extrastriate areas resemble the visual areas in rats and mice not only in their general location with respect to V1 but also in their internal topography. Moreover, extrastriate areas in the rabbit maintain a constant relationship with myeloarchitectonic borders and features of the callosal pattern. These findings highlight the rabbit as an alternative model to rats and mice for advancing our understanding of cortical visual processing in mammals, especially for projects benefiting from a larger brain.
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Weiss C, Disterhoft JF. The impact of hippocampal lesions on trace-eyeblink conditioning and forebrain-cerebellar interactions. Behav Neurosci 2015; 129:512-22. [PMID: 26214216 PMCID: PMC4518454 DOI: 10.1037/bne0000061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Behavioral Neuroscience published a pivotal paper by Moyer, Deyo, and Disterhoft (1990) 25 years ago that described the impaired acquisition of trace-eyeblink conditioning in rabbits with complete removal of the hippocampus. As part of the Behavioral Neuroscience celebration commemorating the 30th anniversary of the journal, we reflect upon the impact of that study on understanding the role of the hippocampus, forebrain, and forebrain-cerebellar interactions that mediate acquisition and retention of trace-conditioned responses, and of declarative memory more globally. We discuss the expansion of the conditioning paradigm to species other than the rabbit, the heterogeneity of responses among hippocampal neurons during trace conditioning, the responsivity of hippocampal neurons following consolidation of conditioning, the role of awareness in conditioning, how blink conditioning can be used as a translational tool by assaying potential therapeutics for cognitive enhancement, how trace and delay classical conditioning may be used to investigate neurological disorders including Alzheimer's disease and schizophrenia, and how the 2 paradigms may be used to understand the relationship between declarative (explicit) and nondeclarative (implicit) memory systems.
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- Craig Weiss
- Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
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Weinberger NM. New perspectives on the auditory cortex: learning and memory. HANDBOOK OF CLINICAL NEUROLOGY 2015; 129:117-47. [PMID: 25726266 DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-444-62630-1.00007-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Primary ("early") sensory cortices have been viewed as stimulus analyzers devoid of function in learning, memory, and cognition. However, studies combining sensory neurophysiology and learning protocols have revealed that associative learning systematically modifies the encoding of stimulus dimensions in the primary auditory cortex (A1) to accentuate behaviorally important sounds. This "representational plasticity" (RP) is manifest at different levels. The sensitivity and selectivity of signal tones increase near threshold, tuning above threshold shifts toward the frequency of acoustic signals, and their area of representation can increase within the tonotopic map of A1. The magnitude of area gain encodes the level of behavioral stimulus importance and serves as a substrate of memory strength. RP has the same characteristics as behavioral memory: it is associative, specific, develops rapidly, consolidates, and can last indefinitely. Pairing tone with stimulation of the cholinergic nucleus basalis induces RP and implants specific behavioral memory, while directly increasing the representational area of a tone in A1 produces matching behavioral memory. Thus, RP satisfies key criteria for serving as a substrate of auditory memory. The findings suggest a basis for posttraumatic stress disorder in abnormally augmented cortical representations and emphasize the need for a new model of the cerebral cortex.
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- Norman M Weinberger
- Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory and Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA.
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Weiss C, Disterhoft JF. Eyeblink Conditioning and Novel Object Recognition in the Rabbit: Behavioral Paradigms for Assaying Psychiatric Diseases. Front Psychiatry 2015; 6:142. [PMID: 26500564 PMCID: PMC4595794 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2015.00142] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2015] [Accepted: 09/22/2015] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Analysis of data collected from behavioral paradigms has provided important information for understanding the etiology and progression of diseases that involve neural regions mediating abnormal behavior. The trace eyeblink conditioning (EBC) paradigm is particularly suited to examine cerebro-cerebellar interactions since the paradigm requires the cerebellum, forebrain, and awareness of the stimulus contingencies. Impairments in acquiring EBC have been noted in several neuropsychiatric conditions, including schizophrenia, Alzheimer's disease (AD), progressive supranuclear palsy, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Although several species have been used to examine EBC, the rabbit is unique in its tolerance for restraint, which facilitates imaging, its relatively large skull that facilitates chronic neuronal recordings, a genetic sequence for amyloid that is identical to humans which makes it a valuable model to study AD, and in contrast to rodents, it has a striatum that is differentiated into a caudate and a putamen that facilitates analysis of diseases involving the striatum. This review focuses on EBC during schizophrenia and AD since impairments in cerebro-cerebellar connections have been hypothesized to lead to a cognitive dysmetria. We also relate EBC to conditioned avoidance responses that are more often examined for effects of antipsychotic medications, and we propose that an analysis of novel object recognition (NOR) may add to our understanding of how the underlying neural circuitry has changed during disease states. We propose that the EBC and NOR paradigms will help to determine which therapeutics are effective for treating the cognitive aspects of schizophrenia and AD, and that neuroimaging may reveal biomarkers of the diseases and help to evaluate potential therapeutics. The rabbit, thus, provides an important translational system for studying neural mechanisms mediating maladaptive behaviors that underlie some psychiatric diseases, especially cognitive impairments associated with schizophrenia and AD, and object recognition provides a simple test of memory that can corroborate the results of EBC.
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- Craig Weiss
- Department of Physiology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine , Chicago, IL , USA
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- Department of Physiology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine , Chicago, IL , USA
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Kashef A, Campolattaro MM, Freeman JH. Learning-related neuronal activity in the ventral lateral geniculate nucleus during associative cerebellar learning. J Neurophysiol 2014; 112:2234-50. [PMID: 25122718 DOI: 10.1152/jn.00185.2013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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During delay eyeblink conditioning, rats learn to produce an eyelid-closure conditioned response (CR) to a conditioned stimulus (CS), such as a light, which precedes and coterminates with an unconditioned stimulus (US). Previous studies have suggested that the ventral lateral geniculate nucleus (LGNv) might play an important role in visual eyeblink conditioning by supplying visual sensory input to the pontine nuclei (PN) and also receiving feedback from the cerebellum. No prior study has investigated LGNv neuronal activity during eyeblink conditioning. The present study used multiple tetrodes to monitor single-unit activity in the rat LGNv during pre-exposure (CS only), unpaired CS/US, and paired CS-US training conditions. This behavioral-training sequence was used to investigate nonassociative- and associative-driven neuronal activity in the LGNv during training. LGNv neuronal activity habituated during unpaired training and then recovered from habituation during subsequent paired training, which may indicate that the LGNv plays a role in attention to the CS. The amplitude of LGNv neuronal activity correlated with CR production during paired but not unpaired CS/US training. Cerebellar feedback to the LGNv may play a role in modulating LGNv activity and attention to the CS during paired training. Based on the present findings, we hypothesize that the role of LGNv in visual eyeblink conditioning goes beyond simply routing visual CS information to the PN and involves modulation of attention.
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- Alireza Kashef
- Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa; and
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- Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa; and
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Song X, Chen NK. A SVM-based quantitative fMRI method for resting-state functional network detection. Magn Reson Imaging 2014; 32:819-31. [PMID: 24928301 DOI: 10.1016/j.mri.2014.04.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2013] [Revised: 02/20/2014] [Accepted: 04/03/2014] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) aims to measure baseline neuronal connectivity independent of specific functional tasks and to capture changes in the connectivity due to neurological diseases. Most existing network detection methods rely on a fixed threshold to identify functionally connected voxels under the resting state. Due to fMRI non-stationarity, the threshold cannot adapt to variation of data characteristics across sessions and subjects, and generates unreliable mapping results. In this study, a new method is presented for resting-state fMRI data analysis. Specifically, the resting-state network mapping is formulated as an outlier detection process that is implemented using one-class support vector machine (SVM). The results are refined by using a spatial-feature domain prototype selection method and two-class SVM reclassification. The final decision on each voxel is made by comparing its probabilities of functionally connected and unconnected instead of a threshold. Multiple features for resting-state analysis were extracted and examined using an SVM-based feature selection method, and the most representative features were identified. The proposed method was evaluated using synthetic and experimental fMRI data. A comparison study was also performed with independent component analysis (ICA) and correlation analysis. The experimental results show that the proposed method can provide comparable or better network detection performance than ICA and correlation analysis. The method is potentially applicable to various resting-state quantitative fMRI studies.
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- Xiaomu Song
- Department of Electrical Engineering, School of Engineering, Widener University, Kirkbride Hall, Room 369, One University Place, Chester, PA 19013, USA.
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- Brain Imaging and Analysis Center, Duke University Medical Center, Box 2737, Hock Plaza, Durham, NC 27710, USA
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Steinmetz AB, Harmon TC, Freeman JH. Visual cortical contributions to associative cerebellar learning. Neurobiol Learn Mem 2013; 104:103-9. [PMID: 23791556 DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2013.06.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/26/2013] [Accepted: 06/07/2013] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Eye-blink conditioning (EBC) is a form of associative learning that depends on the cerebellum. Previous reports suggested that sensory cortex is necessary for trace EBC but not for delay EBC. The trace and delay EBC procedures used in these studies differed by the presence or absence of a temporal gap between the end of the conditioned stimulus and the onset of the unconditioned stimulus (trace interval) and in the interval between the onset of the CS and the US (inter-stimulus interval, ISI). The current study examined the role of the visual cortex in delay, long-delay, and trace EBC, matching CS duration and inter-stimulus interval between groups. In Experiment 1, extensive removal of the visual cortex impaired acquisition of long-delay and trace EBC but had no effect on delay EBC. In Experiment 2, bilateral inactivation of the visual cortex impaired acquisition and retention of long-delay and trace EBC, but had no effect on delay EBC. In Experiment 3, unilateral inactivation of the visual cortex impaired long-delay EBC but had no effect on trace EBC. The results indicate that the visual cortex facilitates EBC with relatively long ISIs, regardless of whether there is a trace interval or not. Moreover, the ipsilateral projections from the visual cortex to the pontine nuclei are sufficient for modulating long-delay EBC, whereas trace EBC involves bilateral visual cortical interactions with forebrain systems including the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex.
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- Adam B Steinmetz
- Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
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Kryukov VI. Towards a unified model of pavlovian conditioning: short review of trace conditioning models. Cogn Neurodyn 2012; 6:377-98. [PMID: 24082960 PMCID: PMC3438324 DOI: 10.1007/s11571-012-9195-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2010] [Revised: 12/12/2011] [Accepted: 02/03/2012] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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There are three basic paradigms of classical conditioning: delay, trace and context conditioning where presentation of a conditioned stimulus (CS) or a context typically predicts an unconditioned stimulus (US). In delay conditioning CS and US normally coterminate, whereas in trace conditioning an interval of time exists between CS termination and US onset. The modeling of trace conditioning is a rather difficult computational problem and is a challenge to the behavior and connectionist approaches mainly due to a time gap between CS and US. To account for trace conditioning, Pavlov (Conditioned reflexes: an investigation of the physiological activity of the cerebral cortex, Oxford University Press, London, 1927) postulated the existence of a stimulus "trace" in the nervous system. Meanwhile, there exist many other options for solving this association problem. There are several excellent reviews of computational models of classical conditioning but none has thus far been devoted to trace conditioning. Eight representative models of trace conditioning aimed at building a prospective model are being reviewed below in a brief form. As a result, one of them, comprising the most important features of its predecessors, can be suggested as a real candidate for a unified model of trace conditioning.
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- V. I. Kryukov
- St. Daniel Monastery, Danilovsky Val 22, 115191 Moscow, Russia
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Takehara-Nishiuchi K, Maal-Bared G, Morrissey MD. Increased Entorhinal-Prefrontal Theta Synchronization Parallels Decreased Entorhinal-Hippocampal Theta Synchronization during Learning and Consolidation of Associative Memory. Front Behav Neurosci 2012; 5:90. [PMID: 22319482 PMCID: PMC3262397 DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2011.00090] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2011] [Accepted: 12/15/2011] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Memories are thought to be encoded as a distributed representation in the neocortex. The medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) has been shown to support the expression of memories that initially depend on the hippocampus (HPC), yet the mechanisms by which the HPC and mPFC access the distributed representations in the neocortex are unknown. By measuring phase synchronization of local field potential (LFP) oscillations, we found that learning initiated changes in neuronal communication of the HPC and mPFC with the lateral entorhinal cortex (LEC), an area that is connected with many other neocortical regions. LFPs were recorded simultaneously from the three brain regions while rats formed an association between an auditory stimulus (CS) and eyelid stimulation (US) in a trace eyeblink conditioning paradigm, as well as during retention 1 month following learning. Over the course of learning, theta oscillations in the LEC and mPFC became strongly synchronized following presentation of the CS on trials in which rats exhibited a conditioned response (CR), and this strengthened synchronization was also observed during remote retention. In contrast, CS-evoked theta synchronization between the LEC and HPC decreased with learning. Our results suggest that communication between the LEC and mPFC are strengthened with learning whereas the communication between the LEC and HPC are concomitantly weakened, suggesting that enhanced LEC–mPFC communication may be a neuronal correlate for theoretically proposed neocortical reorganization accompanying encoding and consolidation of a memory.
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The physiology of developmental changes in BOLD functional imaging signals. Dev Cogn Neurosci 2011; 1:199-216. [PMID: 22436508 DOI: 10.1016/j.dcn.2011.04.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 112] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2011] [Revised: 04/18/2011] [Accepted: 04/19/2011] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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BOLD fMRI (blood oxygenation level dependent functional magnetic resonance imaging) is increasingly used to detect developmental changes of human brain function that are hypothesized to underlie the maturation of cognitive processes. BOLD signals depend on neuronal activity increasing cerebral blood flow, and are reduced by neural oxygen consumption. Thus, developmental changes of BOLD signals may not reflect altered information processing if there are concomitant changes in neurovascular coupling (the mechanism by which neuronal activity increases blood flow) or neural energy use (and hence oxygen consumption). We review how BOLD signals are generated, and explain the signalling pathways which convert neuronal activity into increased blood flow. We then summarize in broad terms the developmental changes that the brain's neural circuitry undergoes during growth from childhood through adolescence to adulthood, and present the changes in neurovascular coupling mechanisms and energy use which occur over the same period. This information provides a framework for assessing whether the BOLD changes observed during human development reflect altered cognitive processing or changes in neurovascular coupling and energy use.
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Song X, Wyrwicz AM. Unsupervised spatiotemporal fMRI data analysis using support vector machines. Neuroimage 2009; 47:204-12. [PMID: 19344772 PMCID: PMC2807732 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.03.054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2008] [Revised: 03/05/2009] [Accepted: 03/18/2009] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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In this work we present a new support vector machine (SVM)-based method for fMRI data analysis. SVM has been shown to be a powerful, efficient data-driven tool in pattern recognition, and has been applied to the supervised classification of brain cognitive states in fMRI experiments. We examine the unsupervised mapping of activated brain regions using SVM. Specifically, the mapping process is formulated as an outlier detection problem of one-class SVM (OCSVM) that provides initial mapping results. These results are further refined by applying prototype selection and SVM reclassification. Multiple spatial and temporal features are extracted and selected to facilitate SVM learning. The proposed method was compared with correlation analysis (CA), t-test (TT), and spatial independent component analysis (SICA) methods using synthetic and experimental data. Our results show that the proposed method can provide more accurate and robust activation mapping than CA, TT and SICA, and is computationally more efficient than SICA. Besides its applicability to typical fMRI experiments, the proposed method is also a powerful tool in fMRI studies where a reliable quantification of activated brain regions is required.
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Affiliation(s)
- Xiaomu Song
- Center for Basic MR Research, NUH Research Institute, Department of Radiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, 1033 University Place, Suite 100, Evanston, IL 60201, USA.
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