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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Zorzo, Candela
• Méndez, Marta
• Pernía, Alberto M.
• Arias, Jorge L.

Titel

Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation during a spatial memory task leads to a decrease in brain metabolic activity

Ist Teil von

• Brain research, 2021-10, Vol.1769, p.147610-147610, Article 147610

Ort / Verlag

Elsevier B.V

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• [Display omitted] •Transcranial magnetic stimulation leads to a slight spatial learning facilitation in healthy rats.•Transcranial magnetic stimulation generates greater location persistence.•Transcranial magnetic stimulation provokes an efficient use of brain metabolism. Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) is a non-invasive neuromodulation technique that is able to generate causal-based interferences between brain networks and cognitive or behavioral responses. It has been used to improve cognition in several disease models. However, although its exploration in healthy animals is essential to attribute its pure effect in learning and memory processes, studies in this regard are scarce. We aimed to evaluate whether rTMS leads to memory facilitation in healthy rats, and to explore the brain-related oxidative metabolism. We stimulated healthy Wistar rats with a high-frequency (100 Hz) and low-intensity (0.33 T) protocol during three consecutive days and evaluated the effect on the performance of an allocentric spatial reference learning and memory task. Following the last day of learning, we assessed oxidative brain metabolism through quantitative cytochrome c oxidase (CCO) histochemistry. The results showed that rTMS did not improve spatial memory in healthy rats, but the behavioral outcome was accompanied by a CCO reduction in the prefrontal, retrosplenial, parietal, and rhinal cortices, as well as in the striatum, amygdala, septum, mammillary bodies, and the hippocampus, reflecting a lower metabolic activity. In conclusion, rTMS induces a highly efficient use of brain regions associated with spatial memory.