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Ventral CA1 neurons store social memory

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Okuyama, Teruhiro, Kitamura, Takashi, Roy, Dheeraj S., Itohara, Shigeyoshi, Tonegawa, Susumu·2016·Science

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The medial temporal lobe, including the hippocampus, has been implicated in social memory. However, it remains unknown which parts of these brain regions and their circuits hold social memory. Here, we show that ventral hippocampal CA1 (vCA1) neurons of a mouse and their projections to nucleus accumbens (NAc) shell play a necessary and sufficient role in social memory. Both the proportion of activated vCA1 cells and the strength and stability of the responding cells are greater in response to a familiar mouse than to a previously unencountered mouse. Optogenetic reactivation of vCA1 neurons that respond to the familiar mouse enabled memory retrieval and the association of these neurons with unconditioned stimuli. Thus, vCA1 neurons and their NAc shell projections are a component of the storage site of social memory.

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Authors
Okuyama, T., Kitamura, T., Roy, D. S., Itohara, S., & Tonegawa, S.
Affiliations
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)
  • RIKEN–MIT Center for Neural Circuit Genetics at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, Department of Biology and Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
  • RIKEN Center for Brain Science (JP)
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute (US)
Corresponding author
Tonegawa, Susumu
Venue
Science
Published
2016-09-30
Volume
353
Issue
6307
Pages
1536-1541
ISSN
  • 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
  • 1095-9203
OpenAlex
W2525578234
Cited by
657
References
36
Citations by year
2026: 54 · 2025: 88 · 2024: 78 · 2023: 73 · 2022: 77 · 2021: 75 · 2020: 60 · 2019: 55 · 2018: 59 · 2017: 34 · 2016: 3
FWCI
32.03
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Science (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc)
Funders
  • RIKEN Brain Science Institute
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute
  • JPB Foundation
  • Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory Processes and Influences
Keywords
social memory, ventral hippocampus, CA1 neurons, nucleus accumbens shell, memory storage, memory retrieval, medial temporal lobe
MeSH terms
Animals, Cerebral Ventricles, Female, Male, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Mice, Transgenic, Nucleus Accumbens, Mental Recall, Social Behavior, Pyramidal Cells, Mice, CA1 Region, Hippocampal, Optogenetics

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