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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Lo, Liching
• Yao, Shenqin
• Kim, Dong-Wook
• Cetin, Ali
• Harris, Julie
• Zeng, Hongkui
• Anderson, David J.
• Weissbourd, Brandon

Titel

Connectional architecture of a mouse hypothalamic circuit node controlling social behavior

Ist Teil von

• Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS, 2019-04, Vol.116 (15), p.7503-7512

Ort / Verlag

United States: National Academy of Sciences

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Type 1 estrogen receptor-expressing neurons in the ventrolateral subdivision of the ventromedial hypothalamus (VMHvlEsr1) play a causal role in the control of social behaviors, including aggression. Here we use six different viral-genetic tracing methods to systematically map the connectional architecture of VMHvlEsr1 neurons. These data reveal a high level of input convergence and output divergence (“fan-in/fan-out”) from and to over 30 distinct brain regions, with a high degree (∼90%) of bidirectionality, including both direct as well as indirect feedback. Unbiased collateralization mapping experiments indicate that VMHvlEsr1 neurons project to multiple targets. However, we identify two anatomically distinct subpopulations with anterior vs. posterior biases in their collateralization targets. Nevertheless, these two subpopulations receive indistinguishable inputs. These studies suggest an overall system architecture in which an anatomically feed-forward sensory-to-motor processing stream is integrated with a dense, highly recurrent central processing circuit. This architecture differs from the “brain-inspired,” hierarchical feed-forward circuits used in certain types of artificial intelligence networks.