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The Journal of Neuroscience, April 1, 2000, 20(7):2701-2710
Neuronal Correlates of Fear in the Lateral Amygdala: Multiple Extracellular Recordings in Conscious Cats
Denis Paré and Dawn R. Collins Laboratoire de Neurophysiologie, Département de Physiologie, Faculté de Médecine, Université Laval, Québec, Canada, G1K 7P4
Much data implicates the amygdala in the expression and learning of fear. Yet, few studies have examined the neuronal correlates of fear in the amygdala. This study aimed to determine whether fear is correlated to particular activity patterns in the lateral amygdaloid (LA) nucleus. Cats, chronically implanted with multiple microelectrodes in the LA and a catheter in the femoral artery, learned that a series of tones interrupted by a period of silence (5 sec) preceded the administration of a footshock. During the silent period, their blood pressure increased, indicating that they anticipated the noxious stimulus. In parallel, the firing rate of LA neurons doubled, and the discharges of simultaneously recorded cells became more synchronized. Moreover, cross-correlation of focal LA waves revealed a significant increase in synchrony restricted to the theta band. In keeping with this, perievent histograms of neuronal discharges revealed rhythmic changes in the firing probability of LA neurons in relation to focal theta waves. Finally, the responsiveness of LA cells to the stimuli predicting the footshock (the tones) increased during the trials, whereas responses to unrelated stimuli (perirhinal shocks) remained stable. Thus, during the anticipation of noxious stimuli, a state here defined anthropomorphically as fear, the firing rate of LA neurons increases, and their discharges become more synchronized through a modulation at the theta frequency. The presence of theta oscillations in the LA might facilitate cooperative interactions between the amygdala and cortical areas involved in memory.
Key words: amygdala; fear; multisite recording; lateral amygdala; learning; memory; cat
Copyright © 2000 Society for Neuroscience 0270-6474/00/2072701-10$05.00/0
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