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Differential Effects of Forebrain 5-Hydroxytryptamine Depletions on Pavlovian Aversive Conditioning to Discrete and Contextual Stimuli in the Rat

Wilkinson, Lawrence Stephen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9337-6124, Humby, Trevor ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1840-1799, Robbins, T. W. and Everitt, B. J. 1995. Differential Effects of Forebrain 5-Hydroxytryptamine Depletions on Pavlovian Aversive Conditioning to Discrete and Contextual Stimuli in the Rat. European Journal of Neuroscience 7 (10) , pp. 2042-2052. 10.1111/j.1460-9568.1995.tb00627.x

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Abstract

The experiments examined the effects of depleting forebrain 5-hydroxytryptamine (5HT) on Pavlovian aversive conditioning to discrete and contextual stimuli. Rats were lesioned with intracerebroventricular injections of the neurotoxin 5,7-dihydroxytryptamine and then conditioned in a distinctive environment (termed the context) to a 30 s auditory stimulus. In 50% of animals the interval between the offset of the discrete auditory stimulus and the reinforcer, a mild foot-shock (0.5 mA, 0.5 s), was 5 s (the short-trace group) and in the other 50%, 30 s (the long-trace group). Theory predicts that animals in the short-trace condition will learn more about the discrete stimulus as a predictor of shock and become strongly conditioned, while those in the long-trace condition learn relatively more about the context. The extent of conditioning to the discrete and contextual stimuli was assessed separately, in extinction, using lick-suppression and place-preference measures respectively. Under these conditions sham subjects exhibited the expected dissociation with respect to trace interval. However, lesioned animals exhibited a specific impairment in contextual conditioning. The results are discussed in terms of the behavioural, neurochemical and neuroanatomical specificity of 5HT function in aversive conditioning and the implications for general theories of the role of 5HT in aversive processes.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Psychology
Medicine
MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics (CNGG)
Neuroscience and Mental Health Research Institute (NMHRI)
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
Uncontrolled Keywords: 5-hydroxytryptamine; aversion; conditioning; context; rat
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
ISSN: 0953-816X
Last Modified: 21 Oct 2022 09:07
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/35368

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