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Ventral pallidal neurons code incentive motivation: amplification by mesolimbic sensitization and amphetamine

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Tindell, Amy J., Berridge, Kent C., Zhang, Jun, Peciña, Susana, Aldridge, J. Wayne·2005·European Journal of Neuroscience

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Neurons in ventral pallidum fire to reward and its predictive cues. We tested mesolimbic activation effects on neural reward coding. Rats learned that a Pavlovian conditioned stimulus (CS+1 tone) predicted a second conditioned stimulus (CS+2 feeder click) followed by an unconditioned stimulus (UCS sucrose reward). Some rats were sensitized to amphetamine after training. Electrophysiological activity of ventral pallidal neurons to stimuli was later recorded under the influence of vehicle or acute amphetamine injection. Both sensitization and acute amphetamine increased ventral pallidum firing at CS+2 (population code and rate code). There were no changes at CS+1 and minimal changes to UCS. With a new ‘Profile Analysis’, we show that mesolimbic activation by sensitization/amphetamine incrementally shifted neuronal firing profiles away from prediction signal coding (maximal at CS+1) and toward incentive coding (maximal at CS+2), without changing hedonic impact coding (maximal at UCS). This pattern suggests mesolimbic activation specifically amplifies a motivational transform of CS+ predictive information into incentive salience coded by ventral pallidal neurons. Our results support incentive‐sensitization predictions and suggest why cues temporally proximal to drug presentation may precipitate cue‐triggered relapse in human addicts.

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Authors
Tindell, A. J., Berridge, K. C., Zhang, J., Peciña, S., & Aldridge, J. W.
Affiliations
University of Michigan (US)
Corresponding author
Aldridge, J. Wayne
Venue
European Journal of Neuroscience
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2005-11
Volume
22
Issue
10
Pages
2617-2634
ISSN
  • 0953-816X (ISSN-L)
  • 1460-9568
OpenAlex
W2123749488
Cited by
268
References
56
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FWCI
2.90
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
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  • European Journal of Neuroscience (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Deep Blue (University of Michigan) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • National Science Foundation
  • National Institutes of Health (5r01ns031650-07, DA015188)
  • National Institute of Mental Health (MH-63649, R01MH063649, DA015188)
  • National Institute on Drug Abuse (R01DA017752, DA-017752, DA015188, R01DA015188)
  • National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NS-31650)
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
ventral pallidum, incentive motivation, incentive salience, amphetamine, reward coding, classical conditioning, incentive-sensitization theory, relapse, drug addiction, hedonic value
MeSH terms
Algorithms, Amphetamine, Central Nervous System Stimulants, Animals, Conditioning, Classical, Cues, Electrodes, Implanted, Globus Pallidus, Limbic System, Male, Motivation, Motor Activity, Neurons, Reward, Stereotyped Behavior, Rats, Sprague-Dawley, Rats

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