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Representation of negative motivational value in the primate lateral habenula

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Matsumoto, Masayuki, Hikosaka, Okihide·2009·Nature Neuroscience

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An action may lead to either a reward or a punishment. Therefore, an appropriate action needs to be chosen on the basis of the values of both expected rewards and expected punishments. To understand the underlying neural mechanisms, we conditioned monkeys using a Pavlovian procedure with two distinct contexts: one in which rewards were available and another in which punishments were feared. We found that the population of lateral habenula neurons was most strongly excited by a conditioned stimulus associated with the most unpleasant event in each context: the absence of the reward or the presence of the punishment. The population of lateral habenula neurons was also excited by the punishment itself and inhibited by the reward itself, especially when they were less predictable. These results suggest that the lateral habenula has the potential to adaptively control both reward-seeking and punishment-avoidance behaviors, presumably through its projections to dopaminergic and serotonergic systems.

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  • LHb neurons are excited by omission of anticipated rewards or exposure to aversive stimuli.

    “LHb neurons are excited by omission of anticipated rewards or exposure to aversive stimuli (Lecourtier and Kelly 2007;Matsumoto and Hikosaka 2009;Hikosaka 2010;Bromberg-Martin and Hikosaka 2011).”

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  • The LHb projects densely to the RMTg and has a well-established inhibitory effect on midbrain DA neuron firing.

    “In particular, the LHb projects densely to the rostromedial tegmental nucleus (RMTg) (Jhou et al. 2009), and has a well-established inhibitory effect on the firing of midbrain DA neurons (Lecourtier and Kelly 2007;Matsumoto and Hikosaka 2009;Hikosaka 2010;Bromberg-Martin and Hikosaka 2011).”

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  • Reward delivery decreases lateral habenula discharge.

    “Conversely, reward delivery decreases LHb discharge [257].”
  • Lateral habenula neurons fire in response to aversive stimuli and the absence of an expected reward.

    “LHb neurons fire in response to both aversive stimuli and the absence of an expected reward [257-260].”

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Authors
Matsumoto, M., & Hikosaka, O.
Affiliations
National Institutes of Health (US)
Corresponding author
Matsumoto, Masayuki
Venue
Nature Neuroscience
Published
2008-11-30
Volume
12
Issue
1
Pages
77-84
ISSN
  • 1097-6256 (ISSN-L)
  • 1546-1726
OpenAlex
W1964196268
Cited by
547
References
41
Citations by year
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FWCI
8.94
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Nature Neuroscience (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institutes of Health
  • National Eye Institute (Z01EY000415)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
Keywords
lateral habenula, punishment, reward, classical conditioning, conditioned stimulus, reward prediction, punishment avoidance, reward seeking, dopaminergic pathways, serotonergic projections, context-dependent learning
MeSH terms
Animals, Conditioning, Classical, Cues, Eye Movements, Fear, Female, Fixation, Ocular, Macaca mulatta, Male, Motivation, Neural Inhibition, Neurons, Punishment, Reward, Habenula

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