期刊
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
卷 41, 期 45, 页码 9308-9325出版社
SOC NEUROSCIENCE
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1414-21.2021
关键词
amygdala; development; GluN2B; social
资金
- National Institutes of Health [MH118237, MH109484, F32MH120938, F32MH122092]
The study demonstrates the crucial role of the basolateral amygdala (BLA) in regulating socially-driven behavior, with age and social drive state affecting its activity differently. High social drive state increases BLA neuronal activity, and young rats exhibit higher sensitivity to social opportunities.
Amygdala abnormalities characterize several psychiatric disorders with prominent social deficits and often emerge during adolescence. The basolateral amygdala (BLA) bidirectionally modulates social behavior and has increased sensitivity during adolescence. We tested how an environmentally-driven social state is regulated by the BLA in adults and adolescent male rats. We found that a high social drive state caused by brief social isolation increases age-specific social behaviors and increased BLA neuronal activity. Chemogenetic inactivation of BLA decreased the effect of high social drive on social engagement. High social drive preferentially enhanced BLA activity during social engagement; however, the effect of social opportunity on BLA activity was greater during adolescence. While this identifies a substrate underlying age differences in social drive, we then determined that high social drive increased BLA NMDA GluN2B expression and sensitivity to antagonism increased with age. Further, the effect of a high social drive state on BLA activity during social engagement was diminished by GluN2B blockade in an age-dependent manner. These results demonstrate the necessity of the BLA for environmentally driven social behavior, its sensitivity to social opportunity, and uncover a maturing role for BLA and its GluN2B receptors in social
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