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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 105, Issue 28, Pages 9787-9792Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0800417105
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behavioral inhibition; emotion; reversal learning
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- Medical Research Council [G0001354, G0001354B, G0401411] Funding Source: researchfish
- Medical Research Council [G0001354, G0401411] Funding Source: Medline
- Wellcome Trust Funding Source: Medline
- MRC [G0401411] Funding Source: UKRI
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Successful adaptation to changes in an animal's emotional and motivational environment depends on behavioral flexibility accompanied by changes in bodily responses, e.g., autonomic and endocrine, which support the change in behavior. Here, we identify the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) as pivotal in the flexible regulation and coordination of behavioral and autonomic responses during adaptation. Using an appetitive Pavlovian task, we demonstrate that OFC lesions in the marmoset (i) impair an animal's ability to rapidly suppress its appetitive cardiovascular arousal upon termination of a conditioned stimulus and (ii) cause an uncoupling of the behavioral and autonomic components of the adaptive response after reversal of the reward contingencies. These findings highlight the role of the OFC in emotional regulation and are highly relevant to our understanding of disorders such as schizophrenia and autism in which uncoupling of emotional responses may contribute to the experiential distress and disadvantageous behavior associated with these disorders.
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