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ArticleThe international journal of neuropsychopharmacology2021

Translational Assessments of Reward Responsiveness in the Marmoset.

Lisa M Wooldridge, Jack Bergman, Diego A Pizzagalli, Brian D Kangas

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Article in The international journal of neuropsychopharmacology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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23citing papers in PubMed
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 15% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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23 citing papers in PubMed, 23 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Lisa M WooldridgeMcLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts, USA.
Jack BergmanMcLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts, USA.
Diego A PizzagalliMcLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7772-1143
Brian D KangasMcLean Hospital, Belmont, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4597-9801
Harvard University · USMcLean Hospital · US

Funding

Neuroimaging Studies of Reward Processing in DepressionR37MH068376 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · PI Diego A Pizzagalli · 2016 to 2026
$7.4M
Drug Self Administration and Withdrawal Effects on Cognitive FunctionK01DA035974 · NIDA · MCLEAN HOSPITAL · PI KANGAS, BRIAN D. · 2013 to 2017
$743k
NIDA NIH HHS K01 DA035974NIMH NIH HHS R37 MH068376
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundAnhedonia, the loss of pleasure in previously rewarding activities, is a prominent feature of major depressive disorder and often resistant to first-line antidepressant treatment. A paucity of translatable cross-species tasks to assess subdomains of anhedonia, including reward learning, presents a major obstacle to the development of effective therapeutics. One assay of reward learning characterized by orderly behavioral and pharmacological findings in both humans and rats is the probabilistic reward task. In this computerized task, subjects make discriminations across numerous trials in which correct responses to one alternative are rewarded more often (rich) than correct responses to the other (lean). Healthy control subjects reliably develop a response bias to the rich alternative. However, participants with major depressive disorder as well as rats exposed to chronic stress typically exhibit a blunted response bias.

methodsThe present studies validated a touchscreen-based probabilistic reward task for the marmoset, a small nonhuman primate with considerable translational value. First, probabilistic reinforcement contingencies were parametrically examined. Next, the effects of ketamine (1.0-10.0 mg/kg), a US Food and Drug Administration-approved rapid-acting antidepressant, and phencyclidine (0.01-0.1 mg/kg), a pharmacologically similar N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antagonist with no known antidepressant efficacy, were evaluated.

resultsIncreases in the asymmetry of rich:lean probabilistic contingencies produced orderly increases in response bias. Consistent with their respective clinical profiles, ketamine but not phencyclidine produced dose-related increases in response bias at doses that did not reduce task discriminability.

conclusionsCollectively, these findings confirm task and pharmacological sensitivity in the marmoset, which may be useful in developing medications to counter anhedonia across neuropsychiatric disorders.

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RewardAnhedoniaAnimalsAntidepressive AgentsBehavior, AnimalCallithrixExcitatory Amino Acid AntagonistsKetamineMaleNeuropsychological TestsPhencyclidineProbability LearningTranslational Research, BiomedicalAntidepressive AgentsExcitatory Amino Acid AntagonistsKetaminePhencyclidineanhedoniaAnimal modelketaminemarmosetphencyclidinereverse translationtouchscreen

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PMCPMC8130205
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