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  • 标题:Ca2+ imaging of self and other in medial prefrontal cortex during social dominance interactions in a tube test
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  • 作者:Nuria Garcia-Font ; Rufus Mitchell-Heggs ; Kapil Saxena
  • 期刊名称:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 印刷版ISSN:0027-8424
  • 电子版ISSN:1091-6490
  • 出版年度:2022
  • 卷号:119
  • 期号:31
  • DOI:10.1073/pnas.2107942119
  • 语种:English
  • 出版社:The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
  • 摘要:Significance Growing interest in social neuroscience requires the development and refinement of social behavior paradigms and novel analyses of the manner in which the neural activity in one brain may reflect the behavioral activity of self or of other, or the activity of each of two interacting individuals. This study documents an approach to analyze such interactions in a social dominance encounter between rodents. The study of social dominance interactions between animals offers a window onto the decision-making involved in establishing dominance hierarchies and an opportunity to examine changes in social behavior observed in certain neurogenetic disorders. Competitive social interactions, such as in the widely used tube test, reflect this decision-making. Previous studies have focused on the different patterns of behavior seen in the dominant and submissive animal, neural correlates of effortful behavior believed to mediate the outcome of such encounters, and interbrain correlations of neural activity. Using a rigorous mutual information criterion, we now report that neural responses recorded with endoscopic calcium imaging in the prelimbic zone of the medial prefrontal cortex show unique correlations to specific dominance-related behaviors. Interanimal analyses revealed cell/behavior correlations that are primarily with an animal’s own behavior or with the other animal’s behavior, or the coincident behavior of both animals (such as pushing by one and resisting by the other). The comparison of unique and coincident cells helps to disentangle cell firing that reflects an animal’s own or the other’s specific behavior from situations reflecting conjoint action. These correlates point to a more cognitive rather than a solely behavioral dimension of social interactions that needs to be considered in the design of neurobiological studies of social behavior. These could prove useful in studies of disorders affecting social recognition and social engagement, and the treatment of disorders of social interaction.
  • 关键词:ensocial dominancetube testendoscopic imagingprefrontal cortexrodents
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