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Linking Context with Reward: A Functional Circuit from Hippocampal CA3 to Ventral Tegmental Area
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Reward-motivated behavior is strongly influenced by the learned significance of contextual stimuli in the environment. However, the neural pathways that mediate context-reward relations are not well understood. We have identified a circuit from area CA3 of dorsal hippocampus to ventral tegmental area (VTA) that uses lateral septum (LS) as a relay. Theta frequency stimulation of CA3 excited VTA dopamine (DA) neurons and inhibited non-DA neurons. DA neuron excitation was likely mediated by disinhibition because local antagonism of γ-aminobutyric acid receptors blocked responses to CA3 stimulation. Inactivating components of the CA3-LS-VTA pathway blocked evoked responses in VTA and also reinstatement of cocaine-seeking by contextual stimuli. This transsynaptic link between hippocampus and VTA appears to be an important substrate by which environmental context regulates goal-directed behavior.
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“this area serves as a hub in the brain by integrating social, emotional, and contextual information from different brain systems and contributing to the coordination of adaptive context-specific behavioral responses (Sheehan et al., 2004; Luo et al., 2011)”
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“is necessary for the formation of cocaine conditioned place preference in rats [36,37].”
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“and the lateral septum plays a key role in modulating context-specific motivational states (Sheehan et al., 2004; Luo et al., 2011; Sartor and Aston-Jones, 2012).”
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“other studies indicating that the LS is part of the brain reward system.”
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“Our results thus provide novel insights into the relationship between midbrain dopaminergic neurons, encoding salient information about an environment9,10,16,19,20, and hippocampal assemblies, providing representations of space1-3, in modulating memory according to the value of the information to be remembered.”
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“This VTA firing response to spatial novelty, which might be partially informed by hippocampal spatio-contextual inputs10,16, resulted in a higher fraction of action potentials discharged in bursts (interspike interval<50ms; novelty-induced burst ratio change=0.31±0.07, t156=4.31, P=2.9×10−5, paired t-test), a potentially suitable signal to in turn modulate hippocampal dynamics.”
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- Authors
- Luo, A. H., Tahsili-Fahadan, P., Wise, R. A., Lupica, C. R., & Aston-Jones, G.
- Affiliations
- National Institutes of Health (US)
- Department of Neurosciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA.
- Corresponding author
- Luo, Alice H.
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 2011-07-15
- Volume
- 333
- Issue
- 6040
- Pages
- 353-357
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- PMC
- PMC3150711
- OpenAlex
- W2013438045
- Cited by
- 425
- References
- 17
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- FWCI
- 13.24
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Science (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Rutgers University Community Repository (Rutgers University) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health
- National Institute of Mental Health (F31MH071093)
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (R37DA006214, ZIADA000471)
- National Center for Research Resources (UL1RR029882)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
- Keywords
- hippocampal CA3, ventral tegmental area, lateral septum, dopaminergic neurons, disinhibition, GABA receptors, cocaine seeking, reinstatement, goal-directed behavior, contextual cues, neural circuits
- MeSH terms
- Action Potentials, Animals, Behavior, Animal, Brain Mapping, Cocaine, Dopamine, Electric Stimulation, gamma-Aminobutyric Acid, Hippocampus, Male, Models, Neurological, Neural Inhibition, Neural Pathways, Neurons, Reward, Self Administration, Septal Nuclei, Theta Rhythm, Rats, Sprague-Dawley, Ventral Tegmental Area, GABA Agonists, GABA Antagonists, Rats, CA3 Region, Hippocampal, Drug-Seeking Behavior
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