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ArticleNeuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology2019

The medial septum enhances reversal learning via opposing actions on ventral tegmental area and substantia nigra dopamine neurons.

D M Bortz, K L Gazo, A A Grace

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Article in Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

D M BortzDepartment of Neuroscience, Psychiatry, and Psychology, Center for Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. dmb164@pitt.edu.
K L GazoDepartment of Neuroscience, Psychiatry, and Psychology, Center for Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
A A GraceDepartment of Neuroscience, Psychiatry, and Psychology, Center for Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
University of Pittsburgh · US

Funding

Gating of Information Flow Within the Nucleus Accumbens (Supplement)R01MH057440 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI ANTHONY A GRACE · 1997 to 2026
$7.2M
Circuit-based Study of Depression/Anhedonia in RatsR01MH101180 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI GRACE, ANTHONY A · 2014 to 2018
$1.9M
Medial septum differentially regulates spontaneous dopamine neuron activity in the ventral tegmental area and substantia nigra pars compacta via distinct neurochemical pathwaysF32MH115550 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI BORTZ, DAVID MICHAEL · 2017 to 2019
$182k
NIMH NIH HHS F32 MH115550NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH057440NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH101180
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cognitive flexibility deficits are one of the most pervasive symptoms across psychiatric disorders, making continued investigation of the circuitry underlying this function a top priority. Medial septum (MS) lesions lead to perseverative, inflexible-type behavior; however, a role for this region in cognitive flexibility circuitry has never been examined. We activated the MS (DREADDs) and measured performance in a T-maze spatial reversal learning task in male Sprague-Dawley rats. Systemic activation of the MS (CNO) significantly decreased both trials to perform a reversal and entries into the previously baited arm. Intra-ventral subiculum CNO enhanced reversal learning in the same manner as systemic CNO and also significantly increased ventral tegmental area and decreased substantia nigra dopamine neuron population activity. Finally, co-injection of the D1 antagonist SCH23390 with CNO prevented the enhanced reversal learning performance seen in the previous two experiments. Taken together, these data suggest a key role for the MS in cognitive flexibility, and suggest that MS-mediated changes in midbrain dopamine neuron population activity could be one mechanism by which this occurs.

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AnimalsDopaminergic NeuronsMaleNeural PathwaysRats, Sprague-DawleyReversal LearningSeptal NucleiSubstantia NigraVentral Tegmental Area

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PMID31261368
PMCPMC6898642
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