Amygdala neurons differentially encode motivation and reinforcement

被引:81
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作者
Tye, Kay M.
Janak, Patricia H.
机构
[1] Univ Calif San Francisco, Ernest Gallo Clin & Res Ctr, Dept Neurol, Oakland, CA 94608 USA
[2] Univ Calif San Francisco, Grad Program Neurosci, San Francisco, CA 94143 USA
[3] Univ Calif San Francisco, Dept Neurol, San Francisco, CA 94143 USA
[4] Univ Calif San Francisco, Wheeler Ctr Neurobiol Addict, San Francisco, CA 94143 USA
来源
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE | 2007年 / 27卷 / 15期
关键词
relapse; cue-induced reinstatement; in vivo electrophysiology; addiction; appetitive conditioning; reward;
D O I
10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5281-06.2007
中图分类号
Q189 [神经科学];
学科分类号
071006 ;
摘要
Lesion studies demonstrate that the basolateral amygdala complex (BLA) is important for assigning motivational significance to sensory stimuli, but little is known about how this information is encoded. We used in vivo electrophysiology procedures to investigate how the amygdala encodes motivating and reinforcing properties of cues that induce reinstatement of reward-seeking behavior. Two groups of rats were trained to respond to a sucrose reward. The "paired" group was trained with a reward-predictive cue, whereas the "unpaired" group was trained with a randomly presented cue. Both groups underwent identical extinction and reinstatement procedures during which the reward was withheld. The proportion of neurons that were phasically cue responsive during reinstatement was significantly higher in the paired group (46 of 100) than in the unpaired group (8 of 112). Cues that induce reward-seeking behavior can do so by acting as incentives or reinforcers. Distinct populations of neurons responded to the cue in trials in which the cue acted as an incentive, triggering a motivated reward-seeking state, or as a reinforcer, supporting continued instrumental responding. The incentive motivation-encoding population of neurons (34 of 46 cue-responsive neurons; 74%) extinguished in temporal agreement with a decrease in the rate of instrumental responding. The conditioned reinforcement-encoding population of neurons (12 of 46 cue-responsive neurons; 26%) maintained their response for the duration of cue-reinforced instrumental responding. These data demonstrate that separate populations of cue-responsive neurons in the BLA encode the motivating or reinforcing properties of a cue previously associated with a reward.
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页码:3937 / 3945
页数:9
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