Extinction of cued fear memory involves a distinct form of depotentiation at cortical input synapses onto the lateral amygdala

The European Journal of Neuroscience
Ingie HongSukwoo Choi

Abstract

The amygdala is known to be a critical storage site of conditioned fear memory. Among the two major pathways to the lateral amygdala (LA), the cortical pathway is known to display a presynaptic long-term potentiation which is occluded with fear conditioning. Here we show that fear extinction results in a net depression of conditioning-induced potentiation at cortical input synapses onto the LA (C-LA synapses). Fear conditioning induced a significant potentiation of excitatory postsynaptic currents at C-LA synapses compared with naïve and unpaired controls, whereas extinction apparently reversed this potentiation. Paired-pulse low-frequency stimulation (pp-LFS) induced synaptic depression in the C-LA pathway of fear-conditioned rats, but not in naïve or unpaired controls, indicating that the pp-LFS-induced depression is specific to associative learning-induced changes (pp-LFS-induced depotentiation(ex vivo)). Importantly, extinction occluded pp-LFS-induced depotentiation(ex vivo), suggesting that extinction shares some mechanisms with the depotentiation. pp-LFS-induced depotentiation(ex vivo) required NMDA receptor (NMDAR) activity, consistent with a previous finding that blockade of amygdala NMDARs impaired fear extinction. In ...Continue Reading

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