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ArticleCurrent biology : CB2019

Distributed Plasticity Drives Visual Habituation Learning in Larval Zebrafish.

Owen Randlett, Martin Haesemeyer, Greg Forkin, Hannah Shoenhard, Alexander F Schier, Florian Engert, Michael Granato

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Article in Current biology : CB, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 52 papers.

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7 authors.

Owen RandlettDepartment of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. Electronic address: owen.randlett@gmail.com.
Martin HaesemeyerDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
Greg ForkinDepartment of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Hannah ShoenhardDepartment of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Alexander F SchierDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; Center for Brain Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; Biozentrum, University of Basel, 4056 Basel, Switzerland.
Florian EngertDepartment of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; Center for Brain Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. Electronic address: florian@mcb.harvard.edu.
Michael GranatoDepartment of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. Electronic address: granatom@pennmedicine.upenn.edu.

Funding

Zooming into the fish's brain-What is really going on! Connectomics analysis of larval zebrafish.U19NS104653 · NINDS · HARVARD UNIVERSITY · PI MARK C FISHMAN · 2017 to 2026
$39.4M
TRAINING PROGRAM IN BEHAVIORAL/COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCET32MH017168 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI KABLE, JOSEPH W · 1985 to 2018
$4.2M
Parallelized Imaging and Automated Analysis of Zebrafish Assays with a Gigapixel MicroscopeR44OD024879 · OD · RAMONA OPTICS, INC. · PI HARFOUCHE, MARK · 2018 to 2022
$3.5M
Cellular and molecular analysis of startle modulationR01MH109498 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI GRANATO, MICHAEL · 2016 to 2020
$2.4M
Genetic analysis of simple learning behaviorsR01MH092257 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI GRANATO, MICHAEL · 2010 to 2014
$2.0M
Transgenic zebrafish for neurobiologyR24NS086601 · NINDS · HARVARD UNIVERSITY · PI ENGERT, FLORIAN · 2014 to 2017
$1.2M
High-Resolution, Parallelized Imaging of Freely Swimming Zebrafish with a Gigapixel MicroscopeR43OD024879 · OD · RAMONA OPTICS, INC. · PI HARFOUCHE, MARK, HORSTMEYER, ROARKE · 2017 to 2017
$225k
NIH HHS R43 OD024879NIH HHS R44 OD024879NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH092257NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH109498NIMH NIH HHS T32 MH017168NINDS NIH HHS R24 NS086601NINDS NIH HHS U19 NS104653
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Habituation is a simple form of learning where animals learn to reduce their responses to repeated innocuous stimuli [1]. Habituation is thought to occur via at least two temporally and molecularly distinct mechanisms, which lead to short-term memories that last for seconds to minutes and long-term memories that last for hours or longer [1, 2]. Here, we focus on long-term habituation, which, due to the extended time course, necessitates stable alterations to circuit properties [2-4]. In its simplest form, long-term habituation could result from a plasticity event at a single point in a circuit, and many studies have focused on identifying the site and underlying mechanism of plasticity [5-10]. However, it is possible that these individual sites are only one of many points in the circuit where plasticity is occurring. Indeed, studies of short-term habituation in C. elegans indicate that in this paradigm, multiple genetically separable mechanisms operate to adapt specific aspects of behavior [11-13]. Here, we use a visual assay in which larval zebrafish habituate their response to sudden reductions in illumination (dark flashes) [14, 15]. Through behavioral analyses, we find that multiple components of the dark-flash response habituate independently of one another using different molecular mechanisms. This is consistent with a modular model in which habituation originates from multiple independent processes, each adapting specific components of behavior. This may allow animals to more specifically or flexibly habituate based on stimulus context or internal states.

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Habituation, PsychophysiologicMemory, Long-TermSpatial LearningAnimalsPhotic StimulationZebrafishbehaviorcircadiandopamine D2 receptorhabituationhigh-throughputlearningmemoryNf1plasticityzebrafish

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