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ArticleScience advances2023

Cognitive effects of thalamostriatal degeneration are ameliorated by normalizing striatal cholinergic activity.

Serena Becchi, Billy Chieng, Laura A Bradfield, Roberto Capellán, Beatrice K Leung, Bernard W Balleine

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Article in Science advances, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 14% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. The parafascicular thalamus steers attention to facilitate learning.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  5. Dorsomedial striatal neuroinflammation causes excessive goal-directed action control by disrupting astrocyte function.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Serena BecchiSchool of Psychology, Faculty of Science, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-1603-8639
Billy ChiengSchool of Psychology, Faculty of Science, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-0222-8001
Laura A BradfieldSchool of Life Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-3921-0745
Roberto CapellánSchool of Psychology, Department of Psychobiology, National University for Distance Learning, Madrid, Spain.ORCID 0000-0001-9586-0684
Beatrice K LeungSchool of Psychology, Faculty of Science, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
Bernard W BalleineSchool of Psychology, Faculty of Science, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-8618-7950
UNSW Sydney · AUUniversidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia · ESUniversity of Technology Sydney · AU

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The loss of neurons in parafascicular thalamus (Pf) and their inputs to dorsomedial striatum (DMS) in Lewy body disease (LBD) and Parkinson's disease dementia (PDD) have been linked to the effects of neuroinflammation. We found that, in rats, these inputs were necessary for both the function of striatal cholinergic interneurons (CINs) and the flexible encoding of the action-outcome (AO) associations necessary for goal-directed action, producing a burst-pause pattern of CIN firing but only during the remapping elicited by a shift in AO contingency. Neuroinflammation in the Pf abolished these changes in CIN activity and goal-directed control after the shift in contingency. However, both effects were rescued by either the peripheral or the intra-DMS administration of selegiline, a monoamine oxidase B inhibitor that we found also enhances adenosine triphosphatase activity in CINs. These findings suggest a potential treatment for the cognitive deficits associated with neuroinflammation affecting the function of the Pf and related structures.

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DementiaParkinson DiseaseAnimalsCholinergic AgentsCholinergic NeuronsCognitionCorpus StriatumNeuroinflammatory DiseasesRatsCholinergic Agents

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PMID37352346
PMCPMC10289650
OpenAlexW4381801989

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