期刊
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
卷 36, 期 50, 页码 12707-12719出版社
SOC NEUROSCIENCE
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1100-16.2016
关键词
EMG; extinction; fear; fear conditioning; freezing; periaqueductal gray
资金
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council UK [BB/M019616/1]
- Medical Research Council [G1100626]
- Physiological Society
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/M019616/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- Medical Research Council [G1100626] Funding Source: researchfish
- BBSRC [BB/M019616/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- MRC [G1100626] Funding Source: UKRI
The dorsal and ventral periaqueductal gray (dPAG and vPAG, respectively) are embedded in distinct survival networks that coordinate, respectively, innate and conditioned fear-evoked freezing. However, the information encoded by the PAG during these survival behaviors is poorly understood. Recordings in the dPAG and vPAG in rats revealed differences in neuronal activity associated with the two behaviors. During innate fear, neuronal responses were significantly greater in the dPAG compared with the vPAG. After associative fear conditioning and during early extinction (EE), when freezing was maximal, a field potential was evoked in the PAG by the auditory fear conditioned stimulus (CS). With repeated presentations of the unreinforced CS, animals displayed progressively less freezing accompanied by a reduction in event-related field potential amplitude. During EE, the majority of dPAG and vPAG units increased their firing frequency, but spike-triggered averaging showed that only ventral activity during the presentation of the CS was significantly coupled to EMG-related freezing behavior. This PAG-EMG coupling was only present for the onset of freezing activity during the CS in EE. During late extinction, a subpopulation of units in the dPAG and vPAG continued to show CS-evoked responses; that is, they were extinction resistant. Overall, these findings support roles for the dPAG in innate and conditioned fear and for the vPAG in initiating but not maintaining the drive to muscles to generate conditioned freezing. The existence of extinction-susceptible and extinction-resistant cells also suggests that the PAG plays a role in encoding fear memories.
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