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Prefrontal cortical regulation of brainwide circuit dynamics and reward-related behavior

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Ferenczi, Emily A., Zalocusky, Kelly A., Liston, Conor, Grosenick, Logan, Warden, Melissa R., Amatya, Debha, Katovich, Kiefer, Mehta, Hershel +7 more·2016·Science

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A way to modulate reward-seeking: Which brain regions are causally involved in reward-related behavior? Ferenczi et al. combined focal, cell type-specific, optogenetic manipulations with brain imaging, behavioral testing, and in vivo electrophysiology (see the Perspective by Robbins). Stimulation of midbrain dopamine neurons increased activity in a brain region called the striatum and was correlated with reward-seeking across individual animals. However, elevated excitability of an area called the medial prefrontal cortex reduced both striatal responses to the stimulation of dopamine neurons and the behavioral drive to seek the stimulation of dopamine neurons. Finally, modulating the excitability of medial prefrontal cortex pyramidal neurons drove changes in neural circuit synchrony, as well as corresponding anhedonic behavior. These observations resemble imaging and clinical phenotypes observed in human depression, addiction, and schizophrenia. Science , this issue p. 10.1126/science.aac9698 ; see also p. 10.1126/science.aad9698

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  • Optogenetic stimulation of ILc reduced the BOLD response to optogenetic-induced dopamine stimulation and blocked DA-stimulation-induced place preference.

    “Moreover, optogenetic stimulation of ILc reduced the BOLD response to optogenetic-induced dopamine stimulation and blocked DA-stimulation-induced place preference [62].”

    From Prefrontal cortex and depression (2022) · cites this paper as [62]

    The Results section, “Elevated mPFC excitability suppresses striatal responses to dopamine” (page unavailable), reports that optogenetic mPFC activation suppressed the striatal BOLD response to dopamine-neuron stimulation and eliminated the stimulation-associated place preference while activation was on. The cited passage identifies the stimulated region as mPFC, not specifically ILc, so the claim’s anatomical specificity is not established by our copy. (LLM, conf=0.84)

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  • Frontal cortical areas play a key role in top-down modulation of striatal response to dopaminergic stimuli.

    “Recent studies using optogenetic stimulation found that also frontal cortical areas play a key role in top-down modulation of striatal response to dopaminergic stimuli (Ferenczi et al. 2016).”
  • Increased mPFC excitability leads to reductions in striatal BOLD response to midbrain dopaminergic stimulation and in reward-seeking behavior.

    “Furthermore, increased excitability of the mPFC, as shown in depression, led to reductions of BOLD signal in response to stimulation of midbrain dopaminergic neurons in the striatum and of reward-seeking behavior as measured with the sucrose preference test and social interaction test (Ferenczi et al., 2016).”

    From Circuit Mechanisms of Reward, Anhedonia, and Depression (2019) · cites this paper as Ferenczi et al., 2016

  • Optogenetic stimulation of midbrain dopaminergic neurons leads to ipsilateral BOLD increases in dorsal and ventral striatum.

    “The optogenetic stimulation of dopaminergic neurons in the midbrain led to ipsilateral increases of the blood oxygenation level dependent (BOLD) signal in the dorsal and VS.”

    From Circuit Mechanisms of Reward, Anhedonia, and Depression (2019) · cites this paper as Ferenczi et al., 2016

  • Blue light inducing dopaminergic stimulation is self-administered by rodents, indicating rewarding effect.

    “On a behavioral level, blue light, inducing dopaminergic stimulation, was self-administered by the rodents as an expression of its rewarding effect.”

    From Circuit Mechanisms of Reward, Anhedonia, and Depression (2019) · cites this paper as Ferenczi et al., 2016

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Ferenczi, E. A., Zalocusky, K. A., Liston, C., Grosenick, L., Warden, M. R., Amatya, D., Katovich, K., Mehta, H., Patenaude, B., Ramakrishnan, C., Kalanithi, P., Etkin, A., Knutson, B., Glover, G. H., & Deisseroth, K.
Affiliations
  • Stanford University (US)
  • Weill Cornell Medicine (US)
  • Cornell University (US)
  • Stanford Medicine (US)
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute (US)
Corresponding author
  • Ferenczi, Emily A.
  • Zalocusky, Kelly A.
  • Liston, Conor
  • Deisseroth, Karl
Venue
Science
Published
2016-01
Volume
351
Issue
6268
Pages
aac9698-aac9698
ISSN
  • 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
  • 1095-9203
OpenAlex
W2210805002
Cited by
535
References
95
Citations by year
2026: 37 · 2025: 34 · 2024: 38 · 2023: 42 · 2022: 54 · 2021: 47 · 2020: 56 · 2019: 46 · 2018: 58 · 2017: 65 · 2016: 56 · 2015: 1
FWCI
28.15
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Science (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
  • National Institute of Mental Health
  • National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
  • NSF
  • Simons Foundation
  • Gatsby Foundation
  • Wiegers Family Fund
  • Grosfeld
  • Reeves
  • Snyder
  • Woo
  • Albert Yu and Mary Bechman Foundations
  • NIDA (1F31MH105151_01)
  • NARSAD
  • NIH (P41 EB015891, R00 MH097822)
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 › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
Keywords
medial prefrontal cortex, anhedonia, reward-seeking behavior, dopaminergic neurons, striatum, depression, schizophrenia
MeSH terms
Animals, Brain Mapping, Corpus Striatum, Depressive Disorder, Dopamine, Female, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Mesencephalon, Motivation, Nerve Net, Oxygen, Reward, Schizophrenia, Rats, Sprague-Dawley, Prefrontal Cortex, Rats, Inbred LEC, Rats, Dopaminergic Neurons, Anhedonia

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