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ArticleMolecular psychiatry2021

Organizational principles of amygdalar input-output neuronal circuits.

Limeng Huang, Yiwen Chen, Sen Jin, Li Lin, Shumin Duan, Ke Si, Wei Gong, J Julius Zhu

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Article in Molecular psychiatry, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers.

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33 citing papers in PubMed, 44 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.

Limeng HuangDepartment of Neurobiology and Department of Neurology of the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8714-9881
Yiwen ChenLiangzhu Laboratory, Zhejiang University Medical Center, Hangzhou, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3480-8262
Sen JinShenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China.
Li LinSchool of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3355-6139
Shumin DuanLiangzhu Laboratory, Zhejiang University Medical Center, Hangzhou, China.
Ke SiState Key Lab of Modern Optical Instrumentation, College of Optical Science and Engineering, International Research Center for Advanced Photonics, Zhejiang University, Zhejiang, China. kesi@zju.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8328-4325
Wei GongDepartment of Neurobiology and Department of Neurology of the Second Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China. weigong@zju.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5568-5930
J Julius ZhuDepartment of Pharmacology, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1879-983X
Zhejiang Chinese Medical University · CNAllen Institute for Brain Science · USShenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology · CNUniversity of Virginia · USWenzhou Medical University · CN

Funding

Genetically-encoded ACh sensorsR01NS104670 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA · PI ZHU, J. JULIUS · 2018 to 2022
$2.2M
Synaptic Depression: Focus on Cdk5 SignalingR01NS092548 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA · PI ZHU, J. JULIUS · 2015 to 2019
$1.7M
NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS092548NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS104670
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The amygdala, one of the most studied brain structures, integrates brain-wide heterogeneous inputs and governs multidimensional outputs to control diverse behaviors central to survival, yet how amygdalar input-output neuronal circuits are organized remains unclear. Using a simplified cell-type- and projection-specific retrograde transsynaptic tracing technique, we scrutinized brain-wide afferent inputs of four major output neuronal groups in the amygdalar basolateral complex (BLA) that project to the bed nucleus of the stria terminals (BNST), ventral hippocampus (vHPC), medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) and nucleus accumbens (NAc), respectively. Brain-wide input-output quantitative analysis unveils that BLA efferent neurons receive a diverse array of afferents with varied input weights and predominant contextual representation. Notably, the afferents received by BNST-, vHPC-, mPFC- and NAc-projecting BLA neurons exhibit virtually identical origins and input weights. These results indicate that the organization of amygdalar BLA input-output neuronal circuits follows the input-dependent and output-independent principles, ideal for integrating brain-wide diverse afferent stimuli to control parallel efferent actions. The data provide the objective basis for improving the virtual reality exposure therapy for anxiety disorders and validate the simplified cell-type- and projection-specific retrograde transsynaptic tracing method.

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AmygdalaNeuronsHippocampusNeural PathwaysNucleus AccumbensPrefrontal Cortex

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PMID34400771
PMCPMC8873025
OpenAlexW3194375757

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