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Short-term social isolation induces depressive-like behaviour and reinstates the retrieval of an aversive task: mood-congruent memory in male mice?

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Takatsu-Coleman, André L., Patti, Camilla L., Zanin, Karina A., Zager, Adriano, Carvalho, Rita C., Borçoi, Aline R., Ceccon, Liliane M.B., Berro, Laís F. +3 more·2013·Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience

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BACKGROUND: Although mood-congruent memory (MCM), or the tendency to recall information consistent with one's mood, is a robust phenomenon in human depression, to our knowledge, it has never been demonstrated in animals. METHODS: Mice were subjected to social isolation (SI) or crowding for 12 hours and had their depressive-like behaviour (evaluated by the forced swim, tail suspension, sucrose preference and splash tests) or their serum corticosterone concentrations evaluated. In addition, we determined the temporal forgetting curve of the plus-maze discriminative avoidance task (PM-DAT) and examined the effects of SI or crowding on memory retrieval in the PM-DAT. Finally, we verified the effects of metyrapone pretreatment on reinstatement of memory retrieval or on the increase of corticosterone levels induced by SI. RESULTS: Twelve hours of SI produced depressive-like behaviour, enhanced corticosterone concentration and reinstated retrieval of a forgotten discriminative aversive (i.e., negatively valenced) task. Depressive-like behaviour was critical for this facilitative effect of SI because 12 hours of crowding neither induced depressive-like behaviour nor enhanced retrieval, although it increased corticosterone levels at the same magnitude as SI. However, corticosterone increase was a necessary condition for MCM in mice, in that the corticosterone synthesis inhibitor metyrapone abolished SI-induced retrieval reinstatement. LIMITATIONS: Our study did not investigate the effects of the social manipulations proposed here in a positively valenced task. CONCLUSION: To our knowledge, the present paper provides the first evidence of MCM in animal models.

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  • Peripheral corticosterone is increased in male mice isolated for 12 hours.

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Takatsu-Coleman, A. L., Patti, C. L., Zanin, K. A., Zager, A., Carvalho, R. C., Borçoi, A. R., Ceccon, L. M. B., Berro, L. F., Tufik, S., Andersen, M. L., & Frussa-Filho, R.
Affiliations
  • Universidade Federal de São Paulo (BR)
  • Departamento de Farmacologia, UNIFESP, São Paulo, Brazil
Corresponding author
Takatsu-Coleman, André L.
Venue
Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience
Published
2013-07
Volume
38
Issue
4
Pages
259-268
ISSN
  • 1180-4882 (ISSN-L)
  • 1488-2434
OpenAlex
W2120872618
Cited by
66
References
57
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FWCI
2.19
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journal article
Language
en
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Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Behavioral Neuroscience › Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory Processes and Influences
Keywords
mood-congruent memory, social isolation, depression-like behavior, corticosterone, metyrapone, aversive memory, animal models of depression, crowding
MeSH terms
Affect, Animals, Avoidance Learning, Behavior, Animal, Corticosterone, Crowding, Depression, Discrimination, Psychological, Male, Metyrapone, Mental Recall, Social Isolation, Models, Animal, Mice

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