Distinct hippocampal engrams control extinction and relapse of fear memory.

Autor: Lacagnina AF; Center for Learning and Memory, Department of Neuroscience, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA., Brockway ET; Center for Learning and Memory, Department of Neuroscience, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA., Crovetti CR; Center for Learning and Memory, Department of Neuroscience, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA., Shue F; Center for Learning and Memory, Department of Neuroscience, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA., McCarty MJ; Center for Learning and Memory, Department of Neuroscience, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA., Sattler KP; Center for Learning and Memory, Department of Neuroscience, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA., Lim SC; Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.; Division of Systems Neuroscience, New York State Psychiatric Institute/Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene, Inc., New York, NY, USA., Santos SL; Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.; Division of Systems Neuroscience, New York State Psychiatric Institute/Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene, Inc., New York, NY, USA.; Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), School of Medicine, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal.; ICVS/3Bs-PT Government Associate Laboratory, Braga/Guimarães, Portugal., Denny CA; Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.; Division of Systems Neuroscience, New York State Psychiatric Institute/Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene, Inc., New York, NY, USA., Drew MR; Center for Learning and Memory, Department of Neuroscience, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA. mdrew@utexas.edu.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Nature neuroscience [Nat Neurosci] 2019 May; Vol. 22 (5), pp. 753-761. Date of Electronic Publication: 2019 Apr 01.
DOI: 10.1038/s41593-019-0361-z
Abstrakt: Learned fear often relapses after extinction, suggesting that extinction training generates a new memory that coexists with the original fear memory; however, the mechanisms governing the expression of competing fear and extinction memories remain unclear. We used activity-dependent neural tagging to investigate representations of fear and extinction memories in the dentate gyrus. We demonstrate that extinction training suppresses reactivation of contextual fear engram cells while activating a second ensemble, a putative extinction engram. Optogenetic inhibition of neurons that were active during extinction training increased fear after extinction training, whereas silencing neurons that were active during fear training reduced spontaneous recovery of fear. Optogenetic stimulation of fear acquisition neurons increased fear, while stimulation of extinction neurons suppressed fear and prevented spontaneous recovery. Our results indicate that the hippocampus generates a fear extinction representation and that interactions between hippocampal fear and extinction representations govern the suppression and relapse of fear after extinction.
Databáze: MEDLINE
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