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Orbitofrontal lesions eliminate signaling of biological significance in cue-responsive ventral striatal neurons

The ventral striatum has long been proposed as an integrator of biologically significant associative information to drive actions. While inputs from the amygdala and hippocampus have been much studied, the role of prominent inputs from orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) are less well understood. Here we rec...

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Autores principales: Cooch, Nisha K., Stalnaker, Thomas A., Wied, Heather, Chaudhary, Sheena, McDannald, Michael A., Liu, Tzu-Lan, Schoenbaum, Geoffrey
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4445428/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26006060
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms8195
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author Cooch, Nisha K.
Stalnaker, Thomas A.
Wied, Heather
Chaudhary, Sheena
McDannald, Michael A.
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Schoenbaum, Geoffrey
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Stalnaker, Thomas A.
Wied, Heather
Chaudhary, Sheena
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description The ventral striatum has long been proposed as an integrator of biologically significant associative information to drive actions. While inputs from the amygdala and hippocampus have been much studied, the role of prominent inputs from orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) are less well understood. Here we recorded single unit activity from ventral striatum core in rats with sham or ipsilateral neurotoxic lesions of lateral OFC, as they performed an odor-guided spatial choice task. Consistent with prior reports, we found that spiking activity recorded in sham rats during cue sampling was related to both reward magnitude and reward identity, with higher firing rates observed for cues that predicted more reward. Lesioned rats also showed differential activity to the cues, but this activity was unbiased towards larger rewards. These data support a role for OFC in shaping activity in the ventral striatum to represent the biological significance of associative information in the environment.
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spelling pubmed-44454282015-11-21 Orbitofrontal lesions eliminate signaling of biological significance in cue-responsive ventral striatal neurons Cooch, Nisha K. Stalnaker, Thomas A. Wied, Heather Chaudhary, Sheena McDannald, Michael A. Liu, Tzu-Lan Schoenbaum, Geoffrey Nat Commun Article The ventral striatum has long been proposed as an integrator of biologically significant associative information to drive actions. While inputs from the amygdala and hippocampus have been much studied, the role of prominent inputs from orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) are less well understood. Here we recorded single unit activity from ventral striatum core in rats with sham or ipsilateral neurotoxic lesions of lateral OFC, as they performed an odor-guided spatial choice task. Consistent with prior reports, we found that spiking activity recorded in sham rats during cue sampling was related to both reward magnitude and reward identity, with higher firing rates observed for cues that predicted more reward. Lesioned rats also showed differential activity to the cues, but this activity was unbiased towards larger rewards. These data support a role for OFC in shaping activity in the ventral striatum to represent the biological significance of associative information in the environment. 2015-05-21 /pmc/articles/PMC4445428/ /pubmed/26006060 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms8195 Text en http://www.nature.com/authors/editorial_policies/license.html#terms Users may view, print, copy, and download text and data-mine the content in such documents, for the purposes of academic research, subject always to the full Conditions of use:http://www.nature.com/authors/editorial_policies/license.html#terms
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Orbitofrontal lesions eliminate signaling of biological significance in cue-responsive ventral striatal neurons
title Orbitofrontal lesions eliminate signaling of biological significance in cue-responsive ventral striatal neurons
title_full Orbitofrontal lesions eliminate signaling of biological significance in cue-responsive ventral striatal neurons
title_fullStr Orbitofrontal lesions eliminate signaling of biological significance in cue-responsive ventral striatal neurons
title_full_unstemmed Orbitofrontal lesions eliminate signaling of biological significance in cue-responsive ventral striatal neurons
title_short Orbitofrontal lesions eliminate signaling of biological significance in cue-responsive ventral striatal neurons
title_sort orbitofrontal lesions eliminate signaling of biological significance in cue-responsive ventral striatal neurons
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4445428/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26006060
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms8195
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