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BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY
卷 89, 期 4, 页码 366-375出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2020.08.017
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- State University of New York BRAIN Network of Excellence Postdoctoral Fellow program
- National Institutes of Health [T32 AA007583, DA043190, AA024112]
Targeted activation of mesoaccumbal GABA neurons decreases responding to incentive cues associated with smaller-than-expected rewards, facilitating adaptation in reward-seeking behaviors. In contrast, activating all ventral tegmental area GABA neurons results in a uniform decrease in responding to incentive cues regardless of changes in reward size, indicating a specific role of mesoaccumbal GABA projections in associative learning processes.
BACKGROUND: Mesolimbic circuits regulate the attribution of motivational significance to incentive cues that predict reward, yet this network also plays a key role in adapting reward-seeking behavior when the contingencies linked to a cue unexpectedly change. Here, we asked whether mesoaccumbal GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid) projections enhance adaptive responding to incentive cues of abruptly altered reward value, and whether these effects were distinct from global activation of all ventral tegmental area GABA circuits. METHODS: We used a viral targeting system to chemogenetically activate mesoaccumbal GABA projections in male rats during a novel cue-dependent operant value-shifting task, in which the volume of a sucrose reward associated with a predictive cue is suddenly altered, from the beginning and throughout the session. We compared the results with global activation of ventral tegmental area GABA neurons, which will activate local inhibitory circuits and long loop projections. RESULTS: We found that activation of mesoaccumbal GABA projections decreases responding to incentive cues associated with smaller-than-expected rewards. This tuning of behavioral responses was specific to cues associated with smaller-than-expected rewards but did not impact measures related to consuming the reward. In marked contrast, activating all ventral tegmental area GABA neurons resulted in a uniform decrease in responding to incentive cues irrespective of changes in the size of the reward. CONCLUSIONS: Targeted activation of mesoaccumbal GABA neurons facilitates adaptation in reward-seeking behaviors. This suggests that these projections may play a very specific role in associative learning processes.
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