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Divergent Routing of Positive and Negative Information from the Amygdala during Memory Retrieval

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Although the basolateral amygdala (BLA) is known to play a critical role in the formation of memories of both positive and negative valence, the coding and routing of valence-related information is poorly understood. Here, we recorded BLA neurons during the retrieval of associative memories and used optogenetic-mediated phototagging to identify populations of neurons that synapse in the nucleus accumbens (NAc), the central amygdala (CeA), or ventral hippocampus (vHPC). We found that despite heterogeneous neural responses within each population, the proportions of BLA-NAc neurons excited by reward predictive cues and of BLA-CeA neurons excited by aversion predictive cues were higher than within the entire BLA. Although the BLA-vHPC projection is known to drive behaviors of innate negative valence, these neurons did not preferentially code for learned negative valence. Together, these findings suggest that valence encoding in the BLA is at least partially mediated via divergent activity of anatomically defined neural populations.

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Authors
Beyeler, A., Namburi, P., Glober, G. F., Simonnet, C., Calhoon, G. G., Conyers, G. F., Luck, R., Wildes, C. P., & Tye, K. M.
Affiliations
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)
Corresponding author
Tye, Kay M.
Venue
Neuron
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2016-04
Volume
90
Issue
2
Pages
348-361
ISSN
0896-6273 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2318838494
Cited by
412
References
44
Citations by year
2026: 23 · 2025: 28 · 2024: 64 · 2023: 37 · 2022: 32 · 2021: 52 · 2020: 48 · 2019: 44 · 2018: 41 · 2017: 31 · 2016: 12
FWCI
27.15
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Neuron (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
Funders
  • National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH102441)
  • National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (DP2DK102256)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory Processes and Influences
Keywords
basolateral amygdala, memory retrieval, positive and negative valence, nucleus accumbens, central amygdala, ventral hippocampus, reward-predictive cues, associative memory
MeSH terms
Animals, Cues, Hippocampus, Male, Neural Pathways, Nucleus Accumbens, Mental Recall, Mice, Basolateral Nuclear Complex, Central Amygdaloid Nucleus

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