Lateral Preoptic Area Neurons Signal Cocaine Self-Administration Behaviors

Author:

Coffey Kevin R.,Venkat Vaishnavi,West Mark O.,Barker David J.

Abstract

AbstractThe lateral preoptic area is implicated in numerous aspects of substance use disorder. In particular, the lateral preoptic area is highly sensitive to the pharmacological properties of psychomotor stimulants, and its activity promotes drug-seeking in the face of punishment and reinstatement during abstinence. Despite the lateral preoptic areas complicity in substance use disorder, how precisely lateral preoptic area neurons encode the individual components of drug self-administration has not been ascertained. To bridge this gap, we examined how the firing of single lateral preoptic area neurons correlates with three discrete elements of cocaine self-administration: 1) drug-seeking (pre-response), 2) drug-taking (response), and 3) receipt of the cocaine infusion. A significant subset of lateral preoptic area neurons responded to each component with a mix of increases and decreases in firing-rate. A majority of these neurons encoded the operant response with increases in spiking, though responses during the drug-seeking, taking, and reciept windows were highly correlated.

Publisher

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

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