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Sensory cortical and subcortical auditory neurophysiological changes predict cue-specific extinction behavior enabled by the pharmacological inhibition of an epigenetic regulator during memory formation

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BRAIN RESEARCH BULLETIN
卷 169, 期 -, 页码 167-183

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PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2021.01.016

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Auditory cortex; Learning & memory; Epigenetics; Neuroplasticity; Auditory brainstem response; Histone deacetylase

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  1. American Speech-Hearing-Language Foundation
  2. Brain & Behavior Foundation 2017 NARSAD Young Investigator Award
  3. [NIHR03-DC014753]

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The study reveals that the inhibitor of histone deacetylase 3 (HDAC3-i) facilitates changes in auditory cortical tuning and subcortical peak amplitude, enabling cue-specific extinction behavior. Sensory neuroplasticity plays a crucial role in encoding specific sensory features of learning experiences.
Extinction learning and memory have been broadly investigated at both behavioral and neural levels, but sensory system contributions to extinction processes have been less explored. Using a sound-reward extinction paradigm in male rats, we reveal both cortical and subcortical forms of plasticity associated with the cue-specificity of behavioral extinction memory. In the auditory cortex, frequency tuning narrowed by up to two-thirds of an octave around the remembered extinguished sound cue. Subcortical signals revealed in the auditory brainstem response (ABR) in the same animals developed smaller amplitudes of some (but not all) ABR peaks evoked by the extinguished sound frequency. Interestingly, treatment with an inhibitor of histone deacetylase 3 (HDAC3-i) facilitated both auditory cortical tuning bandwidth changes and changes in subcortical peak amplitude evoked only by the extinguished sound frequency. These neurophysiological changes were correlated to each other, and to the highly precise extinction behavior enabled by HDAC3-i (compared to vehicle controls). Thus, we show for the first time that HDAC3 regulates the specificity of sensory features consolidated in extinction memory. Further, the sensory cortical changes in tuning bandwidth recapitulate known effects of blocking HDAC3 to enhance cue specificity in other behavioral tasks. Therefore, the findings demonstrate how some forms of sensory neuroplasticity may encode specific sensory features of learning experiences in order to enable cue-specific behaviors.

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