Evidence for the importance of dopamine for prefrontal cortex functions early in life

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences
A Diamond

Abstract

There is considerable evidence that dorsolateral prefrontal cortex subserves critical cognitive abilities even during early infancy and that improvement in these abilities is evident over roughly the next 10 years. We also know that (a) in adult monkeys these cognitive abilities depend critically on the dopaminergic projection to prefrontal cortex and (b) the distribution of dopamine axons within dorsolateral prefrontal cortex changes, and the level of dopamine increases, during the period that infant monkeys are improving on tasks that require the cognitive abilities dependent on prefrontal cortex. To begin to look at whether these cognitive abilities depend critically on the prefrontal dopamine projection in humans even during infancy and early childhood we have been studying children who we hypothesized might have a selective reduction in the dopaminergic innervation of prefrontal cortex and a selective impairment in the cognitive functions subserved by dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. These are children treated early and continuously for the genetic disorder, phenylketonuria (PKU). In PKU the ability to convert the amino acid, phenylalanine (Phe), into another amino acid, tyrosine (Tyr), is impaired. This causes Phe to accum...Continue Reading

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