Publication Date:
2014-10-25
Description:
Cognitive processes require working memory (WM) that involves a brief period of memory retention known as the delay period. Elevated delay-period activity in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) has been observed, but its functional role in WM tasks remains unclear. We optogenetically suppressed or enhanced activity of pyramidal neurons in mouse mPFC during the delay period. Behavioral performance was impaired during the learning phase but not after the mice were well trained. Delay-period mPFC activity appeared to be more important in memory retention than in inhibitory control, decision-making, or motor selection. Furthermore, endogenous delay-period mPFC activity showed more prominent modulation that correlated with memory retention and behavioral performance. Thus, properly regulated mPFC delay-period activity is critical for information retention during learning of a WM task.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Liu, Ding -- Gu, Xiaowei -- Zhu, Jia -- Zhang, Xiaoxing -- Han, Zhe -- Yan, Wenjun -- Cheng, Qi -- Hao, Jiang -- Fan, Hongmei -- Hou, Ruiqing -- Chen, Zhaoqin -- Chen, Yulei -- Li, Chengyu T -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2014 Oct 24;346(6208):458-63. doi: 10.1126/science.1256573.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Institute of Neuroscience and Key Laboratory of Primate Neurobiology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China. ; Institute of Neuroscience and Key Laboratory of Primate Neurobiology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China. ; Institute of Neuroscience and Key Laboratory of Primate Neurobiology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China. tonylicy@ion.ac.cn.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25342800" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Calcium-Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinase Type 2/genetics/metabolism
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Learning/*physiology
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Luminescent Proteins/genetics/metabolism
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Male
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Memory, Short-Term/*physiology
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Mice
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Mice, Inbred C57BL
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Mice, Transgenic
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Prefrontal Cortex/cytology/*physiology
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Pyramidal Cells/*physiology
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Reaction Time
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*Retention (Psychology)
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Rhodopsin/genetics/metabolism
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Smell
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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