期刊
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
卷 34, 期 42, 页码 14115-14127出版社
SOC NEUROSCIENCE
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3327-14.2014
关键词
amygdala; cocaine; conditioning; memory; place preference
资金
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) [MOP-74650, MOP-86762]
- Natural Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)
- Brain and Behavior Foundation
- EJLB Foundation
- Human Frontiers Program Research Grant
- Ontario Mental Health Foundation (OMHF)
- Vanier Canada Scholarship from CIHR
- EMBO Long-Term Fellowship
- CIHR training fellowship
- Restracomp Fellowships (Hospital for Sick Children)
- Restracomp Fellowship
Experience with drugs of abuse (such as cocaine) produces powerful, long-lasting memories that may be important in the development and persistence of drug addiction. The neural mechanisms that mediate how and where these cocaine memories are encoded, consolidated and stored are unknown. Here we used conditioned place preference in mice to examine the precise neural circuits that support the memory of a cocaine-cue association (the cocaine memory trace or cocaine engram). We found that a small population of neurons (similar to 10%) in the lateral nucleus of amygdala (LA) were recruited at the time of cocaine-conditioning to become part of this cocaine engram. Neurons with increased levels of the transcription factor CREB were preferentially recruited or allocated to the cocaine engram. Ablating or silencing neurons overexpressing CREB (but not a similar number of random LA neurons) before testing disrupted the expression of a previously acquired cocaine memory, suggesting that neurons overexpressing CREB become a critical hub in what is likely a larger cocaine memory engram. Consistent with theories that coordinated postencoding reactivation of neurons within an engram or cell assembly is crucial for memory consolidation (Marr, 1971; Buzsaki, 1989; Wilson and McNaughton, 1994; McClelland et al., 1995; Girardeau et al., 2009; Dupret et al., 2010; Carr et al., 2011), we also found that post-training suppression, or nondiscriminate activation, of CREB overexpressing neurons impaired consolidation of the cocaine memory. These findings reveal mechanisms underlying how and where drug memories are encoded and stored in the brain and may also inform the development of treatments for drug addiction.
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