期刊
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
卷 28, 期 48, 页码 12682-12690出版社
SOC NEUROSCIENCE
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2305-08.2008
关键词
neuropeptide; extinction; fear; startle; rat; basolateral amygdala; amygdala; behavior
资金
- National Institutes of Health (NIH) [MH047840]
- Center for Behavioral Neuroscience [IBN-987675]
- NIH/National Center for Research Resources [P51RR000165]
Neuropeptides are a promising target for novel treatments for anxiety and other psychiatric disorders and neuropeptide Y (NPY) has emerged as a key component of anxiolytic circuits in the brain. For this reason, we have evaluated the role of NPY in the expression and extinction of conditioned fear. We found that intracerebroventricular administration of NPY inhibits both baseline acoustic startle and the expression of fear-potentiated startle. Infusion of NPY(10 pmol/side) into the basolateral, but not the medial, nucleus of the amygdala reproduced the intracerebroventricular effect. Central administration of NPY (10 mu g) also enhanced within-session extinction of fear-potentiated startle. This finding, coupled with the growing body of literature correlating NPY with resilience in humans, led us to the hypothesis that NPY may enhance the extinction of conditioned fear. When NPY(10 mu g) is administered intracerebroventricularly before extinction training, extinction retention for both the contextual and cued components of conditioned fear is enhanced when tested 48 h later off drug. Additionally, we found that intra-basolateral amygdala administration of the NPY Y-1 receptor antagonist BIBO 3304 (200 pmol/side) before extinction training led to a profound deficit in extinction retention. This is the first evidence that NPY facilitates and an NPY antagonist blocks the extinction of conditioned fear. We believe that the role of NPY in the extinction of conditioned fear may, at least in part, explain the mechanism underlying the association between NPY and psychobiological resilience in humans.
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