VIP Interneurons Contribute to Avoidance Behavior by Regulating Information Flow across Hippocampal-Prefrontal Networks
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Inhibitory interneurons expressing vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP) are known to disinhibit cortical neurons. However, it is unclear how disinhibition, occurring at the single-cell level, interacts with network-level patterns of activity to shape complex behaviors. To address this, we examined the role of prefrontal VIP interneurons in a widely studied mouse behavior: deciding whether to explore or avoid the open arms of an elevated plus maze. VIP interneuron activity increases in the open arms and disinhibits prefrontal responses to hippocampal inputs, which are known to transmit signals related to open arm avoidance. Indeed, inhibiting VIP interneurons disrupts network-level representations of the open arms and decreases open arm avoidance specifically when hippocampal-prefrontal theta synchrony is strong. Thus, VIP interneurons effectively gate the ability of hippocampal input to generate prefrontal representations, which drive avoidance behavior. This shows how VIP interneurons enable cortical circuits to integrate specific inputs into network-level representations that guide complex behaviors. VIDEO ABSTRACT.
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PFC VIP+ interneurons enable cortical circuits to integrate hippocampal inputs, gating transmission of signals related to open arm avoidance across hippocampal-prefrontal network.
“In the avoidance behavior of elevated plus maze, PFC VIP+ interneurons enable cortical circuits to integrate hippocampal inputs, therefore effectively gating the transmission of signals related to open arm avoidance across hippocampal-prefrontal network 44”
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- Authors
- Lee, A. T., Cunniff, M. M., See, J. Z., Wilke, S. A., Luongo, F. J., Ellwood, I. T., Ponnavolu, S., & Sohal, V. S.
- Affiliations
- University of California, San Francisco (US)
- Corresponding author
- Sohal, Vikaas S.
- ORCID
- Venue
- Neuron
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2019-06
- Volume
- 102
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 1223-1234.e4
- ISSN
- 0896-6273 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC6800223
- OpenAlex
- W2942609098
- Cited by
- 97
- References
- 29
- Citations by year
- 2026: 10 · 2025: 19 · 2024: 12 · 2023: 11 · 2022: 19 · 2021: 14 · 2020: 11 · 2019: 1
- FWCI
- 6.54
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Neuron (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (399853)
- National Institute of Mental Health (R01 MH100292)
- National Institutes of Health (U01 MH105948, F30 MH106272, DP2 MH100011)
- Simons Foundation
- National Institute of General Medical Sciences (GM07618, K01 MH097841)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural dynamics and brain function
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
- Keywords
- VIP interneurons, vasoactive intestinal peptide, disinhibition, elevated plus maze, prefrontal cortex, hippocampus, inhibitory interneurons
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Anxiety, Avoidance Learning, Exploratory Behavior, Hippocampus, Interneurons, Neural Pathways, Photometry, Theta Rhythm, Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide, Prefrontal Cortex, Mice, GABAergic Neurons
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