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ArticleBehavioural brain research2021

Live predator stress in adolescence results in distinct adult behavioral consequences and dorsal diencephalic brain activation patterns.

J D Tapocik, J R Schank, J R Mitchell, R Damazdic, C L Mayo, D Brady, A B Pincus, C E King, M Heilig, G I Elmer

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J D TapocikLab. of Clinical and Translational Studies, NIAAA, NIH, Bethesda, MD, 20817, United States.
J R SchankLab. of Clinical and Translational Studies, NIAAA, NIH, Bethesda, MD, 20817, United States.
J R MitchellDepartment of Psychology, Colby College, Waterville, ME, 04901, United States.
R DamazdicLab. of Clinical and Translational Studies, NIAAA, NIH, Bethesda, MD, 20817, United States.
C L MayoMaryland Psychiatric Research Center, Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21228, United States.
D BradyMaryland Psychiatric Research Center, Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21228, United States.
A B PincusLab. of Clinical and Translational Studies, NIAAA, NIH, Bethesda, MD, 20817, United States.
C E KingLab. of Clinical and Translational Studies, NIAAA, NIH, Bethesda, MD, 20817, United States.
M HeiligLab. of Clinical and Translational Studies, NIAAA, NIH, Bethesda, MD, 20817, United States.
G I ElmerMaryland Psychiatric Research Center, Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21228, United States; Department of Pharmacology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, United States. Electronic address: gelmer@som.umaryland.edu.

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RMTg circuitry mediates psychiatric consequences of early life-threatening traumaR21MH115370 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE · PI ELMER, GREGORY I, SHEPARD, PAUL D · 2017 to 2018
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NIMH NIH HHS R21 MH115370
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Abstract

Exposure to traumatic events during childhood increases the risk of adult psychopathology, including anxiety, depression, alcohol use disorders and their co-morbidity. Early life trauma also results in increased symptom complexity, treatment resistance and poor treatment outcomes. The purpose of this study was to establish a novel rodent model of adolescent stress, based on an ethologically relevant life-threatening event, live predator exposure. Rats were exposed to a live predator for 10 min. at three different time points (postnatal day (PND)31, 46 and 61). Adult depression-, anxiety-like behaviors and ethanol consumption were characterized well past the last acute stress event (two weeks). Behavioral profiles across assessments were developed to characterize individual response to adolescent stress. CNS activation patterns in separate groups of subjects were characterized after the early (PND31) and last predator exposure (PND61). Subjects exposed to live-predator adolescent stress generally exhibited less exploratory behavior, less propensity to venture into open spaces, a decreased preference for sweet solutions and decreased ethanol consumption in a two-bottle preference test. Additional studies demonstrated blunted cortisol response and CNS activation patterns suggestive of habenula, rostromedial tegmental (RMTg), dorsal raphe and central amygdala involvement in mediating the adult consequences of adolescent stress. Thus, adolescent stress in the form of live-predator exposure results in significant adult behavioral and neurobiological disturbances. Childhood trauma, its impact on neurodevelopment and the subsequent development of mood disorders is a pervasive theme in mental illness. Improving animal models and our neurobiological understanding of the symptom domains impacted by trauma could significantly improve treatment strategies.

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Behavior, AnimalDiencephalonDrinking BehaviorExploratory BehaviorStress, PsychologicalAge FactorsAnimalsDisease Models, AnimalFood PreferencesMalePsychological TraumaRatsRats, WistarAlcoholAnxietyDepressionHabenulaRostromedial tegmentum (RMTg)Trauma

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PMCPMC8056471

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