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ArticleThe European journal of neuroscience2008

Neurogenesis, learning and associative strength.

Jaylyn Waddell, Tracey J Shors

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Article in The European journal of neuroscience, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers.

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30 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors.

Jaylyn WaddellDepartment of Psychology and Center for Collaborative Neuroscience, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA.
Tracey J Shors

Funding

Stress and Memory Formation Across the Female LifespanR01MH059970 · NIMH · RUTGERS THE ST UNIV OF NJ NEW BRUNSWICK · PI SHORS, TRACEY J · 1998 to 2009
$2.5M
NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH059970
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Though the role of the hippocampus in processes of learning and memory is well established, the role of new neurons generated there is less understood. Training on some associative learning tasks increases the likelihood that new cells in the subgranular zone of the dentate gyrus will survive. In the rat, an effective training procedure is trace eyeblink conditioning, in which a conditioned stimulus (CS) is paired with an aversive stimulation to the eyelid (unconditioned stimulus; US), but the stimuli are separated by a temporal gap. Here, we manipulated the asymptote or rate of acquisition during trace conditioning, and examined survival of cells generated 1 week before training. Acquisition was disrupted by decreasing associative strength by insertion of unpredicted USs or slowed with latent inhibition. The number of cells was increased in animals that were trained with trace conditioning, irrespective of the decrease in associative strength or slowed acquisition. Disrupting acquisition with unsignaled USs still increased cell numbers, suggesting that the learning effect on cell survival is not dependent on reliable expression of the conditioned response. Further, animals in the latent inhibition conditions that learned but required more trials also retained more of the new cells than animals requiring fewer trials. The number of cells that survived after the effective training procedures was similar to the number of cells that were available for rescue at the beginning of training. Thus, learning can rescue the majority of cells expressed at the beginning of training, and does so most effectively when acquisition requires many trials.

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AnimalsAssociation LearningCell CountCell DifferentiationCell ProliferationConditioning, EyelidConditioning, PsychologicalDentate GyrusMaleNeural InhibitionNeuronal PlasticityNeuronsRatsRats, Sprague-DawleyStem Cells

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PMID18588540
PMCPMC3289543

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