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The Journal of Neuroscience, June 15, 2001, 21(12):4400-4407

Maturation of Extinction Behavior in Infant Rats: Large-Scale Regional Interactions with Medial Prefrontal Cortex, Orbitofrontal Cortex, and Anterior Cingulate Cortex

Hemanth P. Nair, Jason D. Berndt, Douglas Barrett, and F. Gonzalez-Lima

Institute for Neuroscience and Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712

The ability to express a behavior during the postnatal period may be related to developmental changes in the recruitment of particular neural systems. Here, we show that developmental changes in the functional interactions involving three cortical regions (the medial prefrontal cortex, orbitofrontal cortex, and anterior cingulate cortex) are associated with maturation of extinction behavior in infant rats. Postnatal day 17 (P17) and P12 pups were trained in a straight-alley runway on an alternating schedule of reward and nonreward [patterned single alternation (PSA)] or on a pseudorandom schedule of partial reinforcement (PRF); the pups were then injected with fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) and shifted to continuous nonreward (extinction). Handled control groups exposed to the same training environment but not trained on a particular schedule were included. Among P17 pups, extinction proceeded faster in PSA pups relative to PRF pups. No differences were found between P12 groups. FDG uptake, an index of acute changes in functional activity, was quantified in the three cortical regions and 27 other brain regions of interest. A multivariate covariance analysis, seed partial least squares, revealed that functional relationships involving the three cortical regions and large-scale systems of regions throughout the rostrocaudal extent of the brain changed with training in P17 pups. The cortical regions were primarily uncoupled in the younger group. The data suggest that functional maturation of the frontal cortical regions and their interactions with other brain systems are related to the maturational shift in behavior.

Key words: brain imaging; frontal cortex; covariance; extinction; development; rat

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