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Anterior thalamic nuclei: A critical substrate for non-spatial paired-associate memory in rats

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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
卷 56, 期 7, 页码 5014-5032

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WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/ejn.15802

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biconditional discrimination; extended memory system; immediate early genes; rat; thalamic amnesia

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  1. Brain Research New Zealand - Rangahau Roro Aotearoa
  2. University of Canterbury

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Injury or dysfunction in the anterior thalamic nuclei (ATN) plays a crucial role in diencephalic amnesia. Experimental studies have shown that ATN lesions impair spatial memory and temporal discriminations, but the role in non-spatial memory is limited. This study demonstrates that ATN lesions completely block the acquisition of biconditional associations between odour and object pairings, suggesting that diencephalic amnesia associated with ATN stems from degraded attention to stimulus-stimulus associations.
Injury or dysfunction in the anterior thalamic nuclei (ATN) may be the key contributory factor in many instances of diencephalic amnesia. Experimental ATN lesions impair spatial memory and temporal discriminations, but there is only limited support for a more general role in non-spatial memory. To extend evidence on the effects of ATN lesions, we examined the acquisition of biconditional associations between odour and object pairings presented in a runway, either with or without a temporal gap between these items. Intact adult male rats acquired both the no-trace and 10-s trace versions of this non-spatial task. Intact rats trained in the trace version showed elevated Zif268 activation in the dorsal CA1 of the hippocampus, suggesting that the temporal component recruited additional neural processing. ATN lesions completely blocked acquisition on both versions of this association-memory task. This deficit was not due to poor inhibition to non-rewarded cues or impaired sensory processing, because rats with ATN lesions were unimpaired in the acquisition of simple odour discriminations and simple object discriminations using similar task demands in the same apparatus. This evidence challenges the view that impairments in arbitrary paired-associate learning after ATN lesions require the use of multimodal spatial stimuli. It suggests that diencephalic amnesia associated with the ATN stems from degraded attention to stimulus-stimulus associations and their representation across a distributed memory system.

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