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| Journal Article | DZNE-2024-00307 |
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2024
Elsevier
New York, NY
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Please use a persistent id in citations: doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2023.12.016
Abstract: To survive, animals need to balance their exploratory drive with their need for safety. Subcortical circuits play an important role in initiating and modulating movement based on external demands and the internal state of the animal; however, how motivation and onset of locomotion are regulated remain largely unresolved. Here, we show that a glutamatergic pathway from the medial septum and diagonal band of Broca (MSDB) to the ventral tegmental area (VTA) controls exploratory locomotor behavior in mice. Using a self-supervised machine learning approach, we found an overrepresentation of exploratory actions, such as sniffing, whisking, and rearing, when this projection is optogenetically activated. Mechanistically, this role relies on glutamatergic MSDB projections that monosynaptically target a subset of both glutamatergic and dopaminergic VTA neurons. Taken together, we identified a glutamatergic basal forebrain to midbrain circuit that initiates locomotor activity and contributes to the expression of exploration-associated behavior.
Keyword(s): Mice (MeSH) ; Animals (MeSH) ; Ventral Tegmental Area: physiology (MeSH) ; Exploratory Behavior (MeSH) ; Dopaminergic Neurons: metabolism (MeSH) ; Motivation (MeSH) ; VTA ; behavioral quantification ; exploration ; glutamatergic neurons ; locomotion ; medial septum
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