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Increasing adult hippocampal neurogenesis is sufficient to improve pattern separation

Nature (London), 2011-04, Vol.472 (7344), p.466-470 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

2015 INIST-CNRS ;COPYRIGHT 2011 Nature Publishing Group ;COPYRIGHT 2011 Nature Publishing Group ;Copyright Nature Publishing Group Apr 28, 2011 ;ISSN: 0028-0836 ;EISSN: 1476-4687 ;DOI: 10.1038/nature09817 ;PMID: 21460835 ;CODEN: NATUAS

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Increasing adult hippocampal neurogenesis is sufficient to improve pattern separation
Author: SAHAY, Amar ; SCOBIE, Kimberly N ; HILL, Alexis S ; O'CARROLL, Colin M ; KHEIRBEK, Mazen A ; BURGHARDT, Nesha S ; FENTON, Andre A ; DRANOVSKY, Alex ; HEN, Rene
Subjects: Affect - physiology ; Aging - drug effects ; Aging - pathology ; Aging - physiology ; Animals ; Antidepressive Agents - pharmacology ; Anxiety ; Anxiety - physiopathology ; Anxiety - therapy ; Apoptosis - drug effects ; bcl-2-Associated X Protein - deficiency ; bcl-2-Associated X Protein - genetics ; bcl-2-Associated X Protein - metabolism ; Behavior ; Biological and medical sciences ; Cell Survival - drug effects ; Cognition & reasoning ; Cognition - drug effects ; Cognition - physiology ; Conditioning, Classical - drug effects ; Conditioning, Classical - physiology ; Dentate Gyrus - cytology ; Dentate Gyrus - pathology ; Dentate Gyrus - physiology ; Dentate Gyrus - physiopathology ; Exploratory Behavior - drug effects ; Exploratory Behavior - physiology ; Extinction, Psychological - drug effects ; Extinction, Psychological - physiology ; Fear - physiology ; Fear - psychology ; Female ; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology ; Health aspects ; Hippocampus (Brain) ; Hippocampus - cytology ; Hippocampus - pathology ; Hippocampus - physiology ; Hippocampus - physiopathology ; Learning - drug effects ; Learning - physiology ; Long-Term Potentiation - drug effects ; Long-Term Potentiation - physiology ; Male ; Medical sciences ; Memory - drug effects ; Memory - physiology ; Mice ; Mice, Knockout ; Mice, Transgenic ; Models, Neurological ; Neural Stem Cells - cytology ; Neural Stem Cells - drug effects ; Neural Stem Cells - metabolism ; Neurogenesis ; Neurogenesis - drug effects ; Neurogenesis - physiology ; Neuronal Plasticity - drug effects ; Neuronal Plasticity - physiology ; Neurons ; Neuropharmacology ; Pharmacology. Drug treatments ; Physical Conditioning, Animal - physiology ; Physiological aspects ; Proteins ; Psycholeptics: tranquillizer, neuroleptic ; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry ; Psychopharmacology ; Rodents ; Studies ; Synapses - drug effects ; Synapses - metabolism ; Vertebrates: nervous system and sense organs ; Young adults
Is Part Of: Nature (London), 2011-04, Vol.472 (7344), p.466-470
Description: Adult hippocampal neurogenesis is a unique form of neural circuit plasticity that results in the generation of new neurons in the dentate gyrus throughout life. Neurons that arise in adults (adult-born neurons) show heightened synaptic plasticity during their maturation and can account for up to ten per cent of the entire granule cell population. Moreover, levels of adult hippocampal neurogenesis are increased by interventions that are associated with beneficial effects on cognition and mood, such as learning, environmental enrichment, exercise and chronic treatment with antidepressants. Together, these properties of adult neurogenesis indicate that this process could be harnessed to improve hippocampal functions. However, despite a substantial number of studies demonstrating that adult-born neurons are necessary for mediating specific cognitive functions, as well as some of the behavioural effects of antidepressants, it is unknown whether an increase in adult hippocampal neurogenesis is sufficient to improve cognition and mood. Here we show that inducible genetic expansion of the population of adult-born neurons through enhancing their survival improves performance in a specific cognitive task in which two similar contexts need to be distinguished. Mice with increased adult hippocampal neurogenesis show normal object recognition, spatial learning, contextual fear conditioning and extinction learning but are more efficient in differentiating between overlapping contextual representations, which is indicative of enhanced pattern separation. Furthermore, stimulation of adult hippocampal neurogenesis, when combined with an intervention such as voluntary exercise, produces a robust increase in exploratory behaviour. However, increasing adult hippocampal neurogenesis alone does not produce a behavioural response like that induced by anxiolytic agents or antidepressants. Together, our findings suggest that strategies that are designed to increase adult hippocampal neurogenesis specifically, by targeting the cell death of adult-born neurons or by other mechanisms, may have therapeutic potential for reversing impairments in pattern separation and dentate gyrus dysfunction such as those seen during normal ageing.
Publisher: London: Nature Publishing Group
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 0028-0836
EISSN: 1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/nature09817
PMID: 21460835
CODEN: NATUAS
Source: ProQuest One Psychology
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Increasing adult hippocampal neurogenesis is sufficient to improve pattern separation

2015 INIST-CNRS ;COPYRIGHT 2011 Nature Publishing Group ;COPYRIGHT 2011 Nature Publishing Group ;Copyright Nature Publishing Group Apr 28, 2011 ;ISSN: 0028-0836 ;EISSN: 1476-4687 ;DOI: 10.1038/nature09817 ;PMID: 21460835 ;CODEN: NATUAS

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