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Thalamus sends information about arousal but not valence to the amygdala

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PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY
卷 240, 期 3, 页码 477-499

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SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-022-06284-5

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Basolateral amygdala; Medial geniculate nucleus; Associative learning; Valence; Auditory thalamic relay; Mouse model; Hierarchical clustering; Neural trajectory analysis

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This study investigates the role of the medial geniculate nucleus (MGN) within the thalamoamygdala circuit in associative learning. The results show that the MGN encodes arousal but not valence, unlike the basolateral amygdala (BLA) which encodes both. The MGN and the BLA also exhibit different responses to expected and unexpected outcomes, with the BLA biased towards reward prediction error and the MGN focused on anticipated punishment.
RationaleThe basolateral amygdala (BLA) and medial geniculate nucleus of the thalamus (MGN) have both been shown to be necessary for the formation of associative learning. While the role that the BLA plays in this process has long been emphasized, the MGN has been less well-studied and surrounded by debate regarding whether the relay of sensory information is active or passive. ObjectivesWe seek to understand the role the MGN has within the thalamoamgydala circuit in the formation of associative learning. MethodsHere, we use optogenetics and in vivo electrophysiological recordings to dissect the MGN-BLA circuit and explore the specific subpopulations for evidence of learning and synthesis of information that could impact downstream BLA encoding. We employ various machine learning techniques to investigate function within neural subpopulations. We introduce a novel method to investigate tonic changes across trial-by-trial structure, which offers an alternative approach to traditional trial-averaging techniques. ResultsWe find that the MGN appears to encode arousal but not valence, unlike the BLA which encodes for both. We find that the MGN and the BLA appear to react differently to expected and unexpected outcomes; the BLA biased responses toward reward prediction error and the MGN focused on anticipated punishment. We uncover evidence of tonic changes by visualizing changes across trials during inter-trial intervals (baseline epochs) for a subset of cells. ConclusionWe conclude that the MGN-BLA projector population acts as both filter and transferer of information by relaying information about the salience of cues to the amygdala, but these signals are not valence-specified.

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