Journal: bioRxiv
Article Title: A neural mechanism for learning from delayed postingestive feedback
doi: 10.1101/2023.10.06.561214
Figure Lengend Snippet: a, Hypotheses for how the amygdala associates temporally separated flavor and malaise signals to support CTA learning. Hypothesis 1: Individual novel flavor-coding neurons may be persistently activated long after a meal, either through cell-autonomous or circuit mechanisms, in a manner that provides passive overlap with delayed CGRP neuron malaise signals. Hypothesis 2: CGRP signals may specifically reactivate novel flavor-coding neurons. Hypothesis 3: CGRP signals may specifically activate a separate population of neurons that subsequently becomes incorporated into the novel flavor representation upon memory retrieval. Each of these hypotheses provides a plausible mechanism for linking flavors to malaise signals in the amygdala, but they make mutually exclusive predictions about single-neuron and populational-level activity across the stages of learning. b, Schematic of the CTA paradigm for chronic Neuropixels recordings and CGRP neuron stimulation. We trained mice to consume the water and novel flavor at relatively equal rates, and the total amount consumed was equal ( ; see Methods). c, Reconstruction of recording trajectories registered to the Allen CCF. Each line represents one shank of a four-shank Neuropixels 2.0 probe targeting CEA ( n = 32 shanks from 8 mice). d, Heatmap showing the trial-average spiking of all recorded CEA neurons ( n = 1,104 single- and multi-units from 8 mice) to novel flavor and water consumption during the consumption period (left) and during the delay and CGRP neuron stimulation periods (right). Neurons are grouped by their novel flavor/water preference and then sorted by consumption response magnitude. Consumption PETHs are time-locked to delivery of the flavor or water, which was triggered by the animal entering the port. e, Average spiking of the novel flavor-preferring (red; n = 373 neurons), water-preferring (blue; n = 121 neurons), and non-selective (black; n = 610 neurons) populations across the entire experiment. Inset: average response of each population during the entire 45-min CGRP neuron stimulation period. f, Left: Heatmap showing the trial-average spiking of all recorded neurons to individual 3-s bouts of 10-Hz CGRP neuron stimulation. Right: Average spiking of the novel flavor-preferring (red), water-preferring (blue), and non-selective (black) populations during CGRP neuron stimulation bouts. Inset: average response of each population within individual 3-s bouts of CGRP neuron stimulation. g, Example multinomial logistic regression decoder session. The top row shows the moment-by-moment decoder posterior for the novel flavor (red) and water (blue). The raster below shows time-locked neural activity for novel flavor-preferring, water-preferring, and non-selective neurons. The symbols in the legend represent the true event times (novel flavor delivery, water delivery, CGRP neuron stimulation), not decoder predictions. Only a subset of recorded neurons is shown for clarity (50 out of 90). h, Average decoder posterior time-locked to CGRP neuron stimulation for the example animal (top) and across all mice (bottom; n = 6). i, Average reactivation rate for the novel flavor and water across the delay and CGRP neuron stimulation periods ( n = 6). We defined a reactivation event as any peak in the decoder posterior trace that was > 0.5. j, Top: Schematic of the population activity dimensionality reduction analysis. Bottom: The first two principal components explained >70% of the variance in trial-average population dynamics during novel flavor and water consumption. k, Left: Neural trajectories for novel flavor consumption (red), water consumption (blue), and CGRP neuron stimulation in PC-space. Right: Time-courses along the PC1 and PC2 axes for the trajectories to left. l, Dimensionality reduction analysis performed separately for four individual example mice, rather than on all mice combined as in j,k . P -values in d,f are from Wilcoxon rank-sum tests corrected for multiple comparisons across neuron groups, P -values in e are from Pearson correlation t -tests. Error bars represent mean ± s.e.m. Shaded areas in d,f,i represent mean ± s.e.m. and in e represent 95% confidence interval for linear fit. *** P ≤ 0.001, **** P ≤ 0.0001, NS, not significant ( P > 0.05).
Article Snippet: CGRP stim timepoint samples also received primary (chicken anti-GFP, 1:500; Aves GFP-1020) and secondary (Alexa Fluor 594 donkey anti-chicken, 1:500; Jackson Immuno 703-585-155) antibodies for ChR2-YFP immunolabeling during the above protocol.
Techniques: Activity Assay