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Excitatory transmission from the amygdala to nucleus accumbens facilitates reward seeking.

Abstract：

:The basolateral amygdala (BLA) has a crucial role in emotional learning irrespective of valence. The BLA projection to the nucleus accumbens (NAc) is thought to modulate cue-triggered motivated behaviours, but our understanding of the interaction between these two brain regions has been limited by the inability to manipulate neural-circuit elements of this pathway selectively during behaviour. To circumvent this limitation, we used in vivo optogenetic stimulation or inhibition of glutamatergic fibres from the BLA to the NAc, coupled with intracranial pharmacology and ex vivo electrophysiology. Here we show that optical stimulation of the pathway from the BLA to the NAc in mice reinforces behavioural responding to earn additional optical stimulation of these synaptic inputs. Optical stimulation of these glutamatergic fibres required intra-NAc dopamine D1-type receptor signalling, but not D2-type receptor signalling. Brief optical inhibition of fibres from the BLA to the NAc reduced cue-evoked intake of sucrose, demonstrating an important role of this specific pathway in controlling naturally occurring reward-related behaviour. Moreover, although optical stimulation of glutamatergic fibres from the medial prefrontal cortex to the NAc also elicited reliable excitatory synaptic responses, optical self-stimulation behaviour was not observed by activation of this pathway. These data indicate that whereas the BLA is important for processing both positive and negative affect, the glutamatergic pathway from the BLA to the NAc, in conjunction with dopamine signalling in the NAc, promotes motivated behavioural responding. Thus, optogenetic manipulation of anatomically distinct synaptic inputs to the NAc reveals functionally distinct properties of these inputs in controlling reward-seeking behaviours.

journal_name

Nature

journal_title

Nature

authors

Stuber GD,Sparta DR,Stamatakis AM,van Leeuwen WA,Hardjoprajitno JE,Cho S,Tye KM,Kempadoo KA,Zhang F,Deisseroth K,Bonci A

doi

10.1038/nature10194

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2011-06-29 00:00:00

pages

377-80

issue

7356

eissn

0028-0836

issn

1476-4687

pii

nature10194

journal_volume

475

pub_type

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Excitatory transmission from the amygdala to nucleus accumbens facilitates reward seeking.