Publication Date:
2015-05-01
Description:
The ability to differentiate stimuli predicting positive or negative outcomes is critical for survival, and perturbations of emotional processing underlie many psychiatric disease states. Synaptic plasticity in the basolateral amygdala complex (BLA) mediates the acquisition of associative memories, both positive and negative. Different populations of BLA neurons may encode fearful or rewarding associations, but the identifying features of these populations and the synaptic mechanisms of differentiating positive and negative emotional valence have remained unknown. Here we show that BLA neurons projecting to the nucleus accumbens (NAc projectors) or the centromedial amygdala (CeM projectors) undergo opposing synaptic changes following fear or reward conditioning. We find that photostimulation of NAc projectors supports positive reinforcement while photostimulation of CeM projectors mediates negative reinforcement. Photoinhibition of CeM projectors impairs fear conditioning and enhances reward conditioning. We characterize these functionally distinct neuronal populations by comparing their electrophysiological, morphological and genetic features. Overall, we provide a mechanistic explanation for the representation of positive and negative associations within the amygdala.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4418228/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉 〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4418228/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Namburi, Praneeth -- Beyeler, Anna -- Yorozu, Suzuko -- Calhoon, Gwendolyn G -- Halbert, Sarah A -- Wichmann, Romy -- Holden, Stephanie S -- Mertens, Kim L -- Anahtar, Melodi -- Felix-Ortiz, Ada C -- Wickersham, Ian R -- Gray, Jesse M -- Tye, Kay M -- DP2 DK102256/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- DP2-DK-102256-01/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/ -- R01 MH101528/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- R01 MH102441/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- R01-MH101528-01/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- R01-MH102441-01/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- U01 MH106018/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- U01-MH106018/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- U01-NS090473/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/ -- England -- Nature. 2015 Apr 30;520(7549):675-8. doi: 10.1038/nature14366.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉1] The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA [2] Neuroscience Graduate Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA. ; The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA. ; Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, NRB 356, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA. ; 1] The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA [2] Undergraduate Program in Neuroscience, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts 02481, USA. ; 1] The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA [2] Undergraduate Program in Neuroscience, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA. ; 1] The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA [2] Master's Program in Biomedical Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam 1098 XH, The Netherlands. ; McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25925480" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Amygdala/*cytology/*physiology
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Animals
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Conditioning, Classical
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Fear/*physiology/psychology
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Gene Expression Profiling
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Long-Term Potentiation
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Male
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Mice
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Mice, Inbred C57BL
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Motivation
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*Neural Pathways
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Neurons/*physiology
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Nucleus Accumbens/cytology/physiology/radiation effects
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Reinforcement (Psychology)
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*Reward
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Transcription, Genetic
Print ISSN:
0028-0836
Electronic ISSN:
1476-4687
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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