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NEUROBIOLOGY OF AGING
Volume 54, Issue -, Pages 144-151Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2016.12.021
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Hippocampal hyperactivity; Parietal cortex; Retrosplenial cortex; Levetiracetam; Aging; Memory
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- National Institute on Aging/National Institutes of Health Grant [AG009973-22]
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Elevated excitability in the hippocampus has emerged as a key contributor to reduced memory function in aging and in cognitive impairment prodromal to Alzheimer's disease. Here, we investigated the relationship between neural activity and memory in the hippocampus and a connectional cortical network using an aged rat model of individual differences for memory impairment. The expression of cFos was used as a measure of pharmacologically induced neural activity. Aged memory-impaired rats exhibited elevated cFos relative to young adult and aged unimpaired rats in the CA3 subfield of the hippocampus and in several cortical regions including the retrosplenial, parietal, and orbitofrontal cortices. Strong correlations between cFos intensity and task performance across the activated network showed a tight coupling between excitability and cognitive phenotype in aging. Elevated neural excitability extending beyond the hippocampus to interconnected posterior cortex (retrosplenial/parietal) was reduced by treatment with levetiracetam, a therapeutic with behavioral efficacy that has previously translated from rodent models of age-related impairment and Alzheimer's disease to humans with amnestic mild cognitive impairment. (C) 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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