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ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2012

Antidepressant suppression of non-REM sleep spindles and REM sleep impairs hippocampus-dependent learning while augmenting striatum-dependent learning.

Alain Watts, Howard J Gritton, Jamie Sweigart, Gina R Poe

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Article in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.

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28citing papers in PubMed
4.6field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

28 citing papers in PubMed, 66 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Alain WattsDepartment of Anesthesiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104, USA.
Howard J Gritton
Jamie Sweigart
Gina R Poe
Michigan Medicine · USSociety for Neuroscience · US

Funding

REM SLEEP AND MEMORYR01MH060670 · NIMH · WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY · PI POE, GINA R · 2000 to 2023
$6.4M
CRCNS - Neuromodulation of Hippocampal Synaptic Plasticity in Waking &REM SleepR01MH076280 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI POE, GINA R · 2005 to 2007
$687k
NIMH NIH HHS MH 60670NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH060670NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH076280
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep enhances hippocampus-dependent associative memory, but REM deprivation has little impact on striatum-dependent procedural learning. Antidepressant medications are known to inhibit REM sleep, but it is not well understood if antidepressant treatments impact learning and memory. We explored antidepressant REM suppression effects on learning by training animals daily on a spatial task under familiar and novel conditions, followed by training on a procedural memory task. Daily treatment with the antidepressant and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor desipramine (DMI) strongly suppressed REM sleep in rats for several hours, as has been described in humans. We also found that DMI treatment reduced the spindle-rich transition-to-REM sleep state (TR), which has not been previously reported. DMI REM suppression gradually weakened performance on a once familiar hippocampus-dependent maze (reconsolidation error). DMI also impaired learning of the novel maze (consolidation error). Unexpectedly, learning of novel reward positions and memory of familiar positions were equally and oppositely correlated with amounts of TR sleep. Conversely, DMI treatment enhanced performance on a separate striatum-dependent, procedural T-maze task that was positively correlated with the amounts of slow-wave sleep (SWS). Our results suggest that learning strategy switches in patients taking REM sleep-suppressing antidepressants might serve to offset sleep-dependent hippocampal impairments to partially preserve performance. State-performance correlations support a model wherein reconsolidation of hippocampus-dependent familiar memories occurs during REM sleep, novel information is incorporated and consolidated during TR, and dorsal striatum-dependent procedural learning is augmented during SWS.

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Analysis of VarianceAnimalsAntidepressive Agents, TricyclicConditioning, OperantCorpus StriatumDesipramineDose-Response Relationship, DrugElectrodes, ImplantedElectroencephalographyElectromyographyExploratory BehaviorFoodHippocampusLearning DisabilitiesMaleMaze LearningAntidepressive Agents, TricyclicDesipramine

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PMID23015432
PMCPMC3712834
OpenAlexW2095793145

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