Anterior thalamic inputs are required for subiculum spatial coding, with associated consequences for hippocampal spatial memory

Frost, Bethany E., Martin, Sean K., Cafalchio, Matheus, Islam, Md Nurul, Aggleton, John P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5573-1308 and O'Mara, Shane M. 2021. Anterior thalamic inputs are required for subiculum spatial coding, with associated consequences for hippocampal spatial memory. Journal of Neuroscience 41 (30) , pp. 6511-6525. 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2868-20.2021

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Abstract

Just as hippocampal lesions are principally responsible for ‘temporal lobe’ amnesia, lesions affecting the anterior thalamic nuclei seem principally responsible for a similar loss of memory, ‘diencephalic’ amnesia. Compared to the former, the causes of diencephalic amnesia have remained elusive. A potential clue comes from how the two sites are interconnected, as within the hippocampal formation, only the subiculum has direct, reciprocal connections with the anterior thalamic nuclei. We found that both permanent and reversible anterior thalamic nuclei lesions in male rats cause a cessation of subicular spatial signalling, reduce spatial memory performance to chance, but leave hippocampal CA1 place cells largely unaffected. We suggest that a core element of diencephalic amnesia stems from the information loss in hippocampal output regions following anterior thalamic pathology.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Psychology
Additional Information:	This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license
Publisher:	Society for Neuroscience
ISSN:	1529-2401
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	7 April 2021
Date of Acceptance:	28 March 2021
Last Modified:	04 May 2023 10:23
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/140365

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