Neural circuitry of safety, fear and reward cue discrimination
Neural circuitry of safety, fear and reward cue discrimination
批准号:
10534852
负责人:
Susan Sangha
金额:
$39.63万
依托单位国家:
美国
项目类别:
财政年份:
2022
资助国家:
美国
项目状态:
已结题
起止时间:
2022-01-01 至 2023-12-31
关键词:
AffectAgonistAmygdaloid structureAnxiety DisordersBehaviorBehavior TherapyBehavioralBehavioral ParadigmBrainBrain regionClinicalCuesDangerousnessDataDevelopmentDiagnosisDiscriminationDiseaseDopamine D1 ReceptorElectrophysiology (science)EmotionalEmotional disorderEnvironmentEquilibriumExposure toExtinction (Psychology)FailureFemaleFrightFutureImpairmentIndividualKnowledgeLearningMediatingModelingNeuronsOrganismPathway interactionsPharmacogeneticsPharmacologyPharmacotherapyPost-Traumatic Stress DisordersPrefrontal CortexProceduresProcessRattusResearchRewardsSafetySex DifferencesSignal TransductionSocietiesStimulusSucroseSystemTestingTrainingVentral Tegmental AreaWomanWorkaddictionapproach avoidance behaviorapproach behaviorbehavior influencebehavior testcomorbidityconditioned feardesignemotion dysregulationemotion regulationimprovedin vivoinsightmalemenneural circuitneuromechanismneuronal circuitrynovelrelating to nervous systemresponsesextool
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Project Summary
Clinical disorders arising from maladaptive emotion regulation present a large burden on society
worldwide. Many of these disorders show comorbidity, for example, addiction with anxiety disorders.
Cues predicting something aversive elicit avoidance and fear behaviors whereas cues predicting
reward elicit approach and reward-seeking behaviors. Cues signifying safety have the power to
modulate fear and reward-seeking behaviors by informing the organism whether or not the environment
is safe. Thus, safety, fear and reward behaviors, and the circuitries governing these behaviors, are
intertwined. The majority of studies on reward and fear processing have been conducted in parallel,
investigating the circuitries separately in primarily male subjects. If we hope to understand and treat
comorbid disorders resulting from maladaptive emotion regulation increased efforts in investigating how
these circuitries integrate their functions to influence behavior is needed in both male and female
subjects. The proposed work uses a novel behavioral paradigm explicitly designed to assess safety,
fear and reward cue learning together in order to investigate the multiple circuitries that regulate these
learning processes in a rat model. Our results show that, compared to males, female rats do not show
suppression of conditioned fear in the presence of the safety cue, indicating a failure to regulate fear in
‘safe’ conditions, and they are more reward responsive during the reward cue. Since women are more
than twice as likely as men to develop emotion dysregulation disorders, this paradigm offers a great
opportunity to tease apart the sex differences in neural circuitry that are generating the behavioral sex
differences. Together, the proposed aims are designed to identify the neural circuitry and mechanisms
of safety, fear and reward cue discrimination and how they may differ between males and females.
Aims 1 and 2 focus on the infralimbic prefrontal cortex, prelimbic prefrontal cortex and basolateral
amygdala in male and female rats to identify differences in neural activity and the critical projections
among these brain regions during safety-fear-reward discrimination. Aim 3 focuses on the projection
from the ventral tegmental area to the basolateral amygdala in male and female rats. We expect to
advance our understanding of the neural circuitry mediating discrimination among emotionally relevant
environmental cues in both male and female subjects, thereby increasing our knowledge at a
systems/circuits level of possible sex differences in emotional disorders. Determining how neural circuit
sex differences are generating sex differences in safety-fear-reward discrimination will improve future
development of sex-specific behavioral and drug treatments in individuals diagnosed with emotion
dysregulation disorders.
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海外基金
Agonist-GPR119-Gs复合物的结构生物学研究
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批准号:32000851
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项目类别:青年科学基金项目
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资助金额:24.0万元
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批准年份:2020
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负责人:乔安娜
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