期刊
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
卷 37, 期 29, 页码 6869-6876出版社
SOC NEUROSCIENCE
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1834-16.2017
关键词
anxiety; approach-avoidance; cingulate cortex; hippocampus; MEG; theta oscillations
资金
- UCL Neuroscience-Neuroscience Centre Zurich Collaboration Grant
- Wellcome Trust [098362/Z/12/Z, 091593/Z/10/Z]
- Medical Research Council [MR/K005464/1]
- Medical Research Council [MR/K005464/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- MRC [MR/K005464/1] Funding Source: UKRI
Neural oscillations in hippocampusandmedial prefrontal cortex(mPFC) are a hallmark of rodent anxiety models that buildonconflict between approachandavoidance. Yet, the function of these oscillations, andtheir expression inhumans, remainelusive. Here, weusedmagnetoencephalography (MEG) to investigate neural oscillations in a task that simulated approach-avoidance conflict, wherein 23 male and female human participants collected monetary tokens under a threat of virtual predation. Probability of threat was signaled by color and learned beforehand by direct experience. Magnitude of threat corresponded to a possible monetary loss, signaled as a quantity. We focused our analyses on an a priori defined region-of-interest, the bilateral hippocampus. Oscillatory power under conflict was linearly predicted by threat probability in a location consistent with right mid-hippocampus. This pattern was specific to the hippocampus, most pronounced in the gamma band, and not explained by spatial movement or anxiety-like behavior. Gamma power was modulated by slower theta rhythms, and this theta modulation increased with threat probability. Furthermore, theta oscillations in the same location showed greater synchrony with mPFC theta with increased threat probability. Strikingly, these findings were not seen in relation to an increase in threat magnitude, which was explicitly signaled as a quantity and induced similar behavioral responses as learned threat probability. Thus, our findings suggest that the expression of hippocampal and mPFC oscillatory activity in the context of anxiety is specifically linked to threat memory. These findings resonate with neurocomputational accounts of the role played by hippocampal oscillations in memory.
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