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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 118, Issue 36, Pages -Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2103642118
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default mode network; ventral pallidum; basal forebrain; anterior cingulate cortex; operant behavior
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The study found that optogenetic modulation of the ventral pallidum (VP) impacts task switching from internally to externally guided behaviors in rats. Excitation of the VP compromises task acquisition, while inhibition of the VP facilitates task learning and speeds up escape from the default mode network state.
Daily life requires transitions between performance of well-practiced, automatized behaviors reliant upon internalized representations and behaviors requiring external focus. Such transitions involve differential activation of the default mode network (DMN), a group of brain areas associated with inward focus. We asked how optogenetic modulation of the ventral pallidum (VP), a subcortical DMN node, impacts task switching between internally to externally guided lever-pressing behavior in the rat. Excitation of the VP dramatically compromised acquisition of an auditory discrimination task, trapping animals in a DMN state of automatized internally focused behavior and impairing their ability to direct attention to external sensory stimuli. VP inhibition, on the other hand, facilitated task acquisition, expediting escape from the DMN brain state, thereby allowing rats to incorporate the contingency changes associated with the auditory stimuli. We suggest that VP, instant by instant, regulates the DMN and plays a deterministic role in transitions between internally and externally guided behaviors.
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