Dopamine neurons modulate neural encoding and expression of depression-related behaviour
摘要:
Major depression is characterized by diverse debilitating symptoms that include hopelessness and anhedonia(1). Dopamine neurons involved in reward and motivation(2-9) are among many neural populations that have been hypothesized to be relevant(10), and certain antidepressant treatments, including medications and brain stimulation therapies, can influence the complex dopamine system. Until now it has not been possible to test this hypothesis directly, even in animal models, as existing therapeutic interventions are unable to specifically target dopamine neurons. Here we investigated directly the causal contributions of defined dopamine neurons to multidimensional depression-like phenotypes induced by chronic mild stress, by integrating behavioural, pharmacological, optogenetic and electrophysiological methods in freely moving rodents. We found that bidirectional control (inhibition or excitation) of specified midbrain dopamine neurons immediately and bidirectionally modulates (induces or relieves) multiple independent depression symptoms caused by chronic stress. By probing the circuit implementation of these effects, we observed that optogenetic recruitment of these dopamine neurons potently alters the neural encoding of depression-related behaviours in the downstream nucleus accumbens of freely moving rodents, suggesting that processes affecting depression symptoms may involve alterations in the neural encoding of action in limbic circuitry.
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STRESS-INDUCED ANHEDONIA VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA SOCIAL DEFEAT ANIMAL-MODEL AVERSIVE STIMULI REWARD CIRCUIT GABA NEURONS SUSCEPTIBILITY MICE INHIBITION
DOI:
10.1038/nature11740
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2013





























































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