Fast transmission from the dopaminergic ventral midbrain to the sensory cortex of awake primates

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• 作者：Judith Mylius ; Max F. K. Happel ; Alexander G. Gorkin…
• 关键词：Deep brain stimulation ; Primate ; Auditory cortex ; Glutamate corelease ; Ventral tegmental area
• 刊名：Brain Structure and Function
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：November 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：220
• 期：6
• 页码：3273-3294
• 全文大小：3,610 KB
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• 作者单位：Judith Mylius (1)
  Max F. K. Happel (2)
  Alexander G. Gorkin (3)
  Ying Huang (1)
  Henning Scheich (4) (5)
  Michael Brosch (1) (5)
  
  1. Special Laboratory Primate Neurobiology, Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Brenneckestra脽e 6, 39118, Magdeburg, Germany
  2. Department Systems Physiology of Learning, Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Brenneckestra脽e 6, 39118, Magdeburg, Germany
  3. Institute of Psychology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Yaroslavskaya Street 13, 129366, Moscow, Russia
  4. Emeritus Group Lifelong Learning, Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Brenneckestra脽e 6, 39118, Magdeburg, Germany
  5. Center for Behavioral Brain Sciences, Otto-von-Guericke-University, Universit盲tsplatz 2, 39106, Magdeburg, Germany
  
• 刊物主题：Neurosciences; Cell Biology; Neurology;
• 出版者：Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• ISSN：1863-2661

文摘

Motivated by the increasing evidence that auditory cortex is under control of dopaminergic cell structures of the ventral midbrain, we studied how the ventral tegmental area and substantia nigra affect neuronal activity in auditory cortex. We electrically stimulated 567 deep brain sites in total within and in the vicinity of the two dopaminergic ventral midbrain structures and at the same time, recorded local field potentials and neuronal discharges in cortex. In experiments conducted on three awake macaque monkeys, we found that electrical stimulation of the dopaminergic ventral midbrain resulted in short-latency (~35 ms) phasic activations in all cortical layers of auditory cortex. We were also able to demonstrate similar activations in secondary somatosensory cortex and superior temporal polysensory cortex. The electrically evoked responses in these parts of sensory cortex were similar to those previously described for prefrontal cortex. Moreover, these phasic responses could be reversibly altered by the dopamine D1-receptor antagonist SCH23390 for several tens of minutes. Thus, we speculate that the dopaminergic ventral midbrain exerts a temporally precise, phasic influence on sensory cortex using fast-acting non-dopaminergic transmitters and that their effects are modulated by dopamine on a longer timescale. Our findings suggest that some of the information carried by the neuronal discharges in the dopaminergic ventral midbrain, such as the motivational value or the motivational salience, is transmitted to auditory cortex and other parts of sensory cortex. The mesocortical pathway may thus contribute to the representation of non-auditory events in the auditory cortex and to its associative functions. Keywords Deep brain stimulation Primate Auditory cortex Glutamate corelease Ventral tegmental area