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Hippocampal lesions in rhesus monkeys disrupt emotional responses but not reinforcer devaluation effects

Chudasama, Yogita, Wright, Katherine S., Murray, Elisabeth A.·2008·Biological Psychiatry

Abstract

Background Although the role of the hippocampus in emotional behavior has long been recognized, the extent to which the hippocampus plays a role in the regulation and expression of emotion in rhesus monkeys has not been systematically explored.Methods Rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) with excitotoxic lesions of the hippocampal formation and unoperated control animals were assessed on two different types of emotional processing: defensive reactions to a potential predator (experiment 1) and ability to update the value of positive reinforcers, in this case food (experiment 2). Monkeys with aspiration lesions of the perirhinal cortex were also included in this study as an operated control group.Results In experiment 1, whereas both operated groups showed reduced latencies to retrieve food located near an innately fear-provoking stimulus, a fake snake, only monkeys with hippocampal lesions displayed reduced defensive reactions to the snake. In experiment 2, both operated groups performed as well as control animals when choosing objects flexibly based on the current value of a food.Conclusions These findings dissociate the hippocampus and perirhinal cortex in fear expression and specifically implicate the hippocampal formation in generating responses to stimuli that are potentially threatening.

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Authors
Chudasama, Y., Wright, K. S., & Murray, E. A.
Affiliations
National Institutes of Health (US)
Corresponding author
Chudasama, Yogita
Venue
Biological Psychiatry
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2008-06
Volume
63
Issue
11
Pages
1084-1091
ISSN
0006-3223 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W1986764568
Cited by
65
References
46
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FWCI
2.94
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Biological Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
National Institutes of Health
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Behavioral Neuroscience › Stress Responses and Cortisol
Keywords
hippocampus, hippocampal lesions, emotional behavior, fear expression, defensive reactions, perirhinal cortex, reinforcer devaluation, excitotoxic lesions, rhesus monkeys, threat detection
MeSH terms
Affective Symptoms, Animals, Behavior, Animal, Conditioning, Operant, Discrimination Learning, Hippocampus, Macaca mulatta, Male, Reaction Time, Reinforcement, Psychology, Reversal Learning, Satiation, Reproducibility of Results, Excitatory Amino Acid Agonists

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