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ArticlebioRxiv : the preprint server for biology2025

Synaptic plasticity of prefrontal long-range inhibition regulates cognitive flexibility.

Xiyu Zhu, Lara L Hagopian, Kira E Wallquist, Vikaas S Sohal

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Article in bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Xiyu ZhuDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences, Kavli Institute for Fundamental Neuroscience, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5264-9387
Lara L HagopianDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences, Kavli Institute for Fundamental Neuroscience, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Kira E WallquistDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences, Kavli Institute for Fundamental Neuroscience, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Vikaas S SohalDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences, Kavli Institute for Fundamental Neuroscience, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2238-4186

Funding

Predoctoral Training in NeurobiologyT32NS115706 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI SAMUEL JEREMY PLEASURE · 2020 to 2026
$3.4M
Improving cognition by understanding and harnessing the plasticity of gamma-generating circuits in prefrontal cortexR01MH129835 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI Vikaas Singh Sohal · 2022 to 2026
$2.7M
NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH129835NINDS NIH HHS T32 NS115706
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

While glutamatergic synaptic plasticity is believed to be a fundamental mechanism mediating learning, the behavioral significance of plasticity at cortical GABAergic synapses remains less well understood. Furthermore, despite recent discoveries of long-range projections from neocortical GABAergic neurons, details about how they function are also sparse. Here we combine behavioral optogenetics with patch-clamp electrophysiology to link plasticity at long-range GABAergic synapses with higher-order cognitive functions. Specifically, learning extradimensional rule shifts potentiates callosal GABAergic synapses from prefrontal parvalbumin-expressing (PV) neurons onto corticothalamic neurons. Disrupting this potentiation by inhibiting callosal PV terminals during rule shifts induces perseveration, whereas reinstating this potentiation with subsequent gamma-frequency callosal PV terminal stimulation restores flexible behavior. This shows how a novel plasticity locus can regulate brain circuits underlying normal cognition and pathological states.

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