Cell Reports,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
42(9), P. 113066 - 113066
Published: Aug. 31, 2023
Fear-related
disorders
arise
from
inefficient
fear
extinction
and
have
immeasurable
social
economic
costs.
Here,
we
characterize
mouse
phenotypes
that
spontaneously
show
fear-independent
behavioral
traits
predicting
adaptive
or
maladaptive
extinction.
We
find
that,
already
before
conditioning,
specific
morphological,
electrophysiological,
transcriptomic
patterns
of
cortical
amygdala
pyramidal
neurons
predispose
to
fear-related
disorders.
Finally,
by
using
an
optogenetic
approach,
the
possibility
rescue
activating
infralimbic
impair
prelimbic
neurons.
Exploration,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
3(6)
Published: Oct. 13, 2023
Depression
is
a
highly
prevalent
and
disabling
mental
disorder,
involving
numerous
genetic
changes
that
are
associated
with
abnormal
functions
in
multiple
regions
of
the
brain.
However,
there
little
transcriptomic-wide
characterization
chronic
social
defeat
stress
(CSDS)
to
comprehensively
compare
transcriptional
brain
regions.
Spatial
transcriptomics
(ST)
was
used
reveal
spatial
difference
gene
expression
control,
resilient
(RES)
susceptible
(SUS)
mouse
brains,
annotated
eight
anatomical
six
cell
types.
The
profiles
uncovered
CSDS
leads
synchrony
different
Then
it
identified
inhibitory
neurons
synaptic
were
primarily
affected
by
CSDS.
Hippocampus
(HIP),
Isocortex,
Amygdala
(AMY)
present
more
pronounced
genes
depressive
psychiatric
disorders
than
other
Signalling
communication
between
these
three
may
play
critical
role
susceptibility
Taken
together,
this
study
provides
important
new
insights
into
at
ST
level,
which
offers
approach
for
understanding
treating
depression.
Cell Reports,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
42(9), P. 113066 - 113066
Published: Aug. 31, 2023
Fear-related
disorders
arise
from
inefficient
fear
extinction
and
have
immeasurable
social
economic
costs.
Here,
we
characterize
mouse
phenotypes
that
spontaneously
show
fear-independent
behavioral
traits
predicting
adaptive
or
maladaptive
extinction.
We
find
that,
already
before
conditioning,
specific
morphological,
electrophysiological,
transcriptomic
patterns
of
cortical
amygdala
pyramidal
neurons
predispose
to
fear-related
disorders.
Finally,
by
using
an
optogenetic
approach,
the
possibility
rescue
activating
infralimbic
impair
prelimbic
neurons.