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Loren Frank
Professor at University of California, San Francisco
Field of Study: Biology , Published 30 Projects
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Video Abstract (AI generated) (02:31) Paper Preprint NeuronMemories of positive experiences require the brain to link places, events, and reward outcomes. Neural processing underlying the association of spatial experiences with reward is thought to depend on interactions between the hippocampus and the nucleus accumbens (NAc)1-9. Hippocampal projections to the NAc arise from both the ventral hippocampus (vH) and the dorsal hippocampus (dH)6-12, and studies using optogenetic interventions have demonstrated that either vH5,6 or dH7 input to the NAc can support behaviors dependent on spatial-reward associations. It remains unclear, however, whether dH, vH, or both coordinate memory processing of spatial-reward information in the hippocampal-NAc circuit under normal conditions. Times of memory reactivation within and outside the hippocampus are marked by hippocampal sharp-wave ripples (SWRs)13-19, discrete events which facilitate investigation of inter-regional information processing. It is unknown whether dH and vH SWRs act in concert or separately to engage NAc neuronal networks, and whether either dH or vH SWRs are preferentially linked to spatial-reward representations. Here we show that dH and vH SWRs occur asynchronously in the awake state and that NAc spatial-reward representations are selectively activated during dH SWRs. We performed simultaneous extracellular recordings in the dH, vH, and NAc of rats learning and performing an appetitive spatial task and during sleep. We found that individual NAc neurons activated during SWRs from one subdivision of the hippocampus were typically suppressed or unmodulated during SWRs from the other. NAc neurons activated during dH versus vH SWRs showed markedly different task-related firing patterns. Only dH SWR-activated neurons were tuned to similarities across spatial paths and past reward, indicating a specialization for the dH-NAc, but not vH-NAc, network in linking reward to discrete spatial paths. These temporally and anatomically separable hippocampal-NAc interactions suggest that dH and vH coordinate opposing channels of mnemonic processing in the NAc.
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Loren Frank. (2021, Nov 7).Dorsal and ventral hippocampus engage opposing networks in the nucleus accumbens[Video]. Scitok. https://scitok.com/project/p/b9067865
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Loren Frank. Dorsal and ventral hippocampus engage opposing networks in the nucleus accumbens[video]. 2021 Nov 7. https://scitok.com/project/p/b9067865
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