Affiliation:
1. Neuroscience Department Oberlin College Oberlin Ohio USA
2. Northwestern University Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (NUIN) Evanston Illinois USA
3. Center for Motor Control and Disease, Key Laboratory of Brain Functional Genomics East China Normal University Shanghai China
4. NYU–ECNU Institute of Brain and Cognitive Science New York University Shanghai Shanghai China
Abstract
AbstractBehavioural flexibility is key to survival in a dynamic environmentWhile flexible, goal‐directed behaviours are initially dependent on dorsomedial striatum, they become dependent on lateral striatum as behaviours become inflexible. Similarly, lesions of dopamine terminals in lateral striatum disrupt the development of inflexible habits. This work suggests that dopamine release in lateral striatum may drive inflexible behaviours, though few studies have investigated a causative role of subpopulations of striatal dopamine terminals in reversal learning, a measure of flexibility. Here, we performed two optogenetic experiments to activate dopamine terminals in dorsomedial (DMS), dorsolateral (DLS) or ventral (nucleus accumbens [NAc]) striatum in DAT‐Cre mice that expressed channelrhodopsin‐2 via viral injection (Experiment I) or through transgenic breeding with an Ai32 reporter line (Experiment II) to determine how specific dopamine subpopulations impact reversal learning. Mice performed a reversal task in which they self‐stimulated DMS, DLS, or NAc dopamine terminals by pressing one of two levers before action‐outcome lever contingencies were reversed. Largely consistent with presumed ventromedial/lateral striatal function, we found that mice self‐stimulating medial dopamine terminals reversed lever preference following contingency reversal, while mice self‐stimulating NAc showed parial flexibility, and DLS self‐stimulation resulted in impaired reversal. Impairments in DLS mice were characterized by more regressive errors and reliance on lose‐stay strategies following reversal, as well as reduced within‐session learning, suggesting reward insensitivity and overreliance on previously learned actions. This study supports a model of striatal function in which DMS and ventral dopamine facilitate goal‐directed responding, and DLS dopamine supports more inflexible responding.
Funder
National Institute of Mental Health
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