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ArticleBehavioral neuroscience2017

Neonatal perirhinal cortex lesions impair monkeys' ability to modulate their emotional responses.

Nathan S Ahlgrim, Jessica Raper, Emily Johnson, Jocelyne Bachevalier

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Article in Behavioral neuroscience, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Nathan S AhlgrimGraduate Program in Neuroscience and Department of Psychology, Emory University.
Jessica RaperDepartment of Psychology and Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University.ORCID 0000-0002-0964-9944
Emily JohnsonDepartment of Psychology and Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University.
Jocelyne BachevalierDepartment of Psychology and Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University.
Oregon National Primate Research Center · USEmory University · US

Funding

Yerkes National Primate Research Center Role of type-I IFN in regulating COVID-19 induced inflammation and pathogenesisP51OD011132 · OD · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI Joon Sup Lee · 2012 to 2026
$167.0M
DEVELOPMENT OF MEDIAL TEMPORAL LOBE FUNCTIONSR01MH058846 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON · PI BACHEVALIER, JOCELYNE H · 1998 to 2015
$5.7M
STRUCTURAL AND SPECTROSCOPIC BRAIN MRI IN AUTISMP01HD035471 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON · PI LOVELAND, KATHERINE A · 1999 to 2004
$4.9M
TRAINING IN SYSTEMS AND INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY:NEUROSCIENCET32GM008605 · NIGMS · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI SMITH, YOLAND · 1996 to 2015
$4.2M
Training In Systems And Integrative Biology NeuroscienceT32NS096050 · NINDS · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI Yoland Smith · 2016 to 2026
$3.9M
National Institute for Child Health and DevelopmentNational Institute for Mental HealthNational Science FoundationNICHD NIH HHS P01 HD035471NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM008605NIH HHS P51 OD011132NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH058846NINDS NIH HHS T32 NS096050
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The medial temporal lobe (MTL) is a collection of brain regions best known for their role in perception, memory, and emotional behavior. Within the MTL, the perirhinal cortex (PRh) plays a critical role in perceptual representation and recognition memory, although its contribution to emotional regulation is still debated. Here, rhesus monkeys with neonatal perirhinal lesions (Neo-PRh) and controls (Neo-C) were tested on the Human Intruder (HI) task at 2 months, 4.5 months, and 5 years of age to assess the role of the PRh in the development of emotional behaviors. The HI task presents a tiered social threat to which typically developing animals modulate their emotional responses according to the level of threat. Unlike animals with neonatal amygdala or hippocampal lesions, Neo-PRh animals were not broadly hyper- or hyporesponsive to the threat presented by the HI task as compared with controls. Instead, Neo-PRh animals displayed an impaired ability to modulate their freezing and anxiety-like behavioral responses according to the varying levels of threat. Impaired transmission of perceptual representation generated by the PRh to the amygdala and hippocampus may explain the animals' inability to appropriately assess and react to complex social stimuli. Neo-PRh animals also displayed fewer hostile behaviors in infancy and more coo vocalizations in adulthood. Neither stress-reactive nor basal cortisol levels were affected by the Neo-PRh lesions. Overall, these results suggest that the PRh is indirectly involved in the expression of emotional behavior and that effects of Neo-PRh lesions are dissociable from neonatal lesions to other temporal lobe structures. (PsycINFO Database Record

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AmygdalaAnimalsAnimals, NewbornAnxietyBehavior, AnimalConditioning, ClassicalEmotionsExploratory BehaviorFemaleHippocampusHumansInfant, NewbornMacaca mulattaMaleMemoryPerirhinal Cortex

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PMCPMC5675115
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