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ArticleNature communications2024

Parvalbumin-expressing basal forebrain neurons mediate learning from negative experience.

Panna Hegedüs, Bálint Király, Dániel Schlingloff, Victoria Lyakhova, Anna Velencei, Írisz Szabó, Márton I Mayer, Zsofia Zelenak, Gábor Nyiri, Balázs Hangya

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Article in Nature communications, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed.

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  7. Infralimbic Projections to the Substantia Innominata-Ventral Pallidum Constrain Defensive Behavior during Extinction Learning.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
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10 authors.

Panna Hegedüs *Lendület Laboratory of Systems Neuroscience, HUN-REN Institute of Experimental Medicine, H-1083, Budapest, Hungary.
Bálint Király *Lendület Laboratory of Systems Neuroscience, HUN-REN Institute of Experimental Medicine, H-1083, Budapest, Hungary.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8483-8780
Dániel Schlingloff *Lendület Laboratory of Systems Neuroscience, HUN-REN Institute of Experimental Medicine, H-1083, Budapest, Hungary.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6447-1210
Victoria LyakhovaLendület Laboratory of Systems Neuroscience, HUN-REN Institute of Experimental Medicine, H-1083, Budapest, Hungary.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0004-8342-2918
Anna VelenceiLendület Laboratory of Systems Neuroscience, HUN-REN Institute of Experimental Medicine, H-1083, Budapest, Hungary.
Írisz SzabóLendület Laboratory of Systems Neuroscience, HUN-REN Institute of Experimental Medicine, H-1083, Budapest, Hungary.
Márton I MayerLaboratory of Cerebral Cortex Research, HUN-REN Institute of Experimental Medicine, H-1083, Budapest, Hungary.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9779-0306
Zsofia ZelenakLendület Laboratory of Systems Neuroscience, HUN-REN Institute of Experimental Medicine, H-1083, Budapest, Hungary.
Gábor NyiriLaboratory of Cerebral Cortex Research, HUN-REN Institute of Experimental Medicine, H-1083, Budapest, Hungary.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4247-0356
Balázs HangyaLendület Laboratory of Systems Neuroscience, HUN-REN Institute of Experimental Medicine, H-1083, Budapest, Hungary. hangya.balazs@koki.hun-ren.hu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2709-7407

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Parvalbumin (PV)-expressing GABAergic neurons of the basal forebrain (BFPVNs) were proposed to serve as a rapid and transient arousal system, yet their exact role in awake behaviors remains unclear. We performed bulk calcium measurements and electrophysiology with optogenetic tagging from the horizontal limb of the diagonal band of Broca (HDB) while male mice were performing an associative learning task. BFPVNs responded with a distinctive, phasic activation to punishment, but showed slower and delayed responses to reward and outcome-predicting stimuli. Optogenetic inhibition during punishment impaired the formation of cue-outcome associations, suggesting a causal role of BFPVNs in associative learning. BFPVNs received strong inputs from the hypothalamus, the septal complex and the median raphe region, while they synapsed on diverse cell types in key limbic structures, where they broadcasted information about aversive stimuli. We propose that the arousing effect of BFPVNs is recruited by aversive stimuli to serve crucial associative learning functions.

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Basal ForebrainGABAergic NeuronsOptogeneticsParvalbuminsAnimalsAssociation LearningLearningMaleMiceMice, Inbred C57BLNeuronsPunishmentRewardParvalbumins

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