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Optogenetic stimulation of lateral orbitofronto-striatal pathway suppresses compulsive behaviors

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Burguière, Eric, Monteiro, Patrícia, Feng, Guoping, Graybiel, Ann M.·2013·Science

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What Causes Obsessive Compulsive Disorder?: Obsessive compulsive disorder is a severe, chronic mental illness that affects millions of individuals. However, the mechanisms underlying this disease are still largely unknown (see the Perspective by Rauch and Carlezon Jr. ). Ahmari et al. (p. 1234 ) stimulated glutamatergic pathways between the orbitofrontal cortex and the ventromedial striatum and used grooming to assess obsessive compulsive behavior in mice. Repetitive stimulation over days triggered changes in the neuronal responses of the ventromedial striatum. Over time, the behavior of the animals became independent of stimulation and could be prevented by the antidepressant fluoxetine. Burguière et al. (p. 1243 ) investigated the neural basis of obsessive compulsive symptoms in a mutant mouse that showed excessive expression of a conditioned form of grooming.

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  • LOFC neurons send inputs to a subregion of striatum ranging from dorsomedial to central striatum, with dense inputs in the central subregion.

    “Consistently, it has repeatedly been reported that LOFC neurons send inputs to a subregion of the striatum ranging from the dorsomedial to the central striatum. Dense inputs are observed in the central subregion60–63.”

    From Dissociable roles of prefrontal plasticity in decision-making strategy and execution of habitual behavior (2026) · cites this paper as [61]

    The paper reports stimulating lOFC axon terminals in the striatum and recording from the centromedial striatum (main text, indexed under Abstract). This supports an lOFC input to that region, but the cited passages do not establish a projection spanning dorsomedial to central striatum or show that inputs are especially dense centrally. (LLM, conf=0.86)

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  • Burguiere et al demonstrated impaired response inhibition in a conditioned grooming task in SAPAP3 KO mice.

    “Burguiere et al 104 demonstrated impaired response inhibition in a conditioned grooming task.”
  • Selectively stimulating projections from lateral OFC to striatum restored normal response inhibition in SAPAP3 KO mice, likely by compensating for deficits in fast-spiking interneurons.

    “By selectively stimulating projections from the lateral OFC to the striatum, they were able to restore normal response inhibition, likely by compensating for SAPAP3 KO deficits in fast-spiking interneurons.”
  • In Sapap3 mutant mice, compensatory optogenetic excitation of the lateral OFC-striatal pathway restored behaviour to the normal range and down-regulated firing of striatal neurons.

    “Critically, the authors found that they could restore behaviour to the normal range in these mutant mice via compensatory optogenetic excitation of the lateral OFC-striatal pathway, which down-regulated the firing of these striatal neurons.”

    From The role of habit in compulsivity (2016) · cites this paper as Burguiere et al., 2013

  • Deletion of the Sapap3 gene in mice induces excessive grooming behaviour alongside deficits in response inhibition and increased firing of medium spiky neurons in the striatum.

    “The first used a gene mutant model where deletion of a gene (Sapap3) induces excessive grooming behaviour alongside deficits in response inhibition and increased firing of medium spiky neurons in the striatum (Burguiere et al., 2013).”

    From The role of habit in compulsivity (2016) · cites this paper as Burguiere et al., 2013

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Authors
Burguière, E., Monteiro, P., Feng, G., & Graybiel, A. M.
Affiliations
McGovern Institute for Brain Research (US)
Corresponding author
Graybiel, Ann M.
Venue
Science
Published
2013-06-07
Volume
340
Issue
6137
Pages
1243-1246
ISSN
  • 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
  • 1095-9203
OpenAlex
W2142150505
Cited by
457
References
30
Citations by year
2026: 26 · 2025: 35 · 2024: 29 · 2023: 19 · 2022: 34 · 2021: 38 · 2020: 36 · 2019: 53 · 2018: 31 · 2017: 35 · 2016: 25 · 2015: 46 · 2014: 34 · 2013: 14
FWCI
44.09
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Science (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • HAL (submittedVersion)
  • DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc)
  • PMC
Funders
  • National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH081201, R01MH097104)
  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R01HD028341, R37HD028341)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
Keywords
optogenetic stimulation, lateral orbitofrontal cortex, compulsive behavior, repetitive behavior, grooming, response inhibition, striatal projection neurons, fast-spiking interneurons, striatal microcircuits, frontostriatal circuits, neuropsychiatric disorders
MeSH terms
Animals, Compulsive Behavior, Corpus Striatum, Disease Models, Animal, Frontal Lobe, Grooming, Male, Nerve Tissue Proteins, Neurons, Gene Deletion, Gene Targeting, Mice, Optogenetics

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