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ArticleCell reports2023

Potentiation of cholinergic and corticofugal inputs to the lateral amygdala in threat learning.

Meenakshi M Asokan, Yurika Watanabe, Eyal Y Kimchi, Daniel B Polley

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Article in Cell reports, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Meenakshi M AsokanEaton-Peabody Laboratories, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Boston, MA 02114, USA; Division of Medical Sciences, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA. Electronic address: ma0716@princeton.edu.
Yurika WatanabeEaton-Peabody Laboratories, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
Eyal Y KimchiEaton-Peabody Laboratories, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Boston, MA 02114, USA; Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
Daniel B PolleyEaton-Peabody Laboratories, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Boston, MA 02114, USA; Division of Medical Sciences, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA; Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary · US

Funding

Activity-Dependent Influences on Auditory CircuitsR01DC009836 · NIDCD · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI POLLEY, DANIEL B. · 2009 to 2024
$6.7M
Corticofugal Circuits for Active ListeningR01DC017078 · NIDCD · MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY · PI Daniel B. Polley · 2018 to 2026
$5.6M
Determining optimal parameters for dynamic cholinergic modulation of associative learningK08MH116135 · NIMH · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI KIMCHI, EYAL YAACOV · 2018 to 2021
$783k
NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC009836NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC017078NIMH NIH HHS K08 MH116135
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The amygdala, cholinergic basal forebrain, and higher-order auditory cortex (HO-AC) regulate brain-wide plasticity underlying auditory threat learning. Here, we perform multi-regional extracellular recordings and optical measurements of acetylcholine (ACh) release to characterize the development of discriminative plasticity within and between these brain regions as mice acquire and recall auditory threat memories. Spiking responses are potentiated for sounds paired with shock (CS+) in the lateral amygdala (LA) and optogenetically identified corticoamygdalar projection neurons, although not in neighboring HO-AC units. Spike- or optogenetically triggered local field potentials reveal enhanced corticofugal-but not corticopetal-functional coupling between HO-AC and LA during threat memory recall that is correlated with pupil-indexed memory strength. We also note robust sound-evoked ACh release that rapidly potentiates for the CS+ in LA but habituates across sessions in HO-AC. These findings highlight a distributed and cooperative plasticity in LA inputs as mice learn to reappraise neutral stimuli as possible threats.

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Basolateral Nuclear ComplexLearningAcetylcholineAcoustic StimulationAmygdalaAnimalsCholinergic AgentsMiceAcetylcholineCholinergic Agentsacetylcholineauditory cortexbasolateral amygdala complexcholinergic basal forebraincorticofugalCP: Neurosciencediscriminative fear learninglateral amygdalaPavlovian conditioningpupiltemporal association area

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