期刊
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
卷 111, 期 51, 页码 E5584-E5592出版社
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1421304111
关键词
Hebbian plasticity; amygdala; neuromodulation; instructive signals; associative learning
资金
- National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) [F32-MH082505]
- Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology
- Strategic Research Program for Brain Sciences [11041047]
- NIMH [R01-MH046516, R01-MH38774]
- [25710003]
- [25116531]
A long-standing hypothesis termed Hebbian plasticity suggests that memories are formed through strengthening of synaptic connections between neurons with correlated activity. In contrast, other theories propose that coactivation of Hebbian and neuromodulatory processes produce the synaptic strengthening that underlies memory formation. Using optogenetics we directly tested whether Hebbian plasticity alone is both necessary and sufficient to produce physiological changes mediating actual memory formation in behaving animals. Our previous work with this method suggested that Hebbian mechanisms are sufficient to produce aversive associative learning under artificial conditions involving strong, iterative training. Here we systematically tested whether Hebbian mechanisms are necessary and sufficient to produce associative learning under more moderate training conditions that are similar to those that occur in daily life. We measured neural plasticity in the lateral amygdala, a brain region important for associative memory storage about danger. Our findings provide evidence that Hebbian mechanisms are necessary to produce neural plasticity in the lateral amygdala and behavioral memory formation. However, under these conditions Hebbian mechanisms alone were not sufficient to produce these physiological and behavioral effects unless neuromodulatory systems were coactivated. These results provide insight into how aversive experiences trigger memories and suggest that combined Hebbian and neuromodulatory processes interact to engage associative aversive learning.
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