Distributed Processing for Value-based Choice by Prelimbic Circuits Targeting Anterior-posterior Dorsal Striatal Subregions in Male Mice

Overview

Journal Nat Commun

Specialty Biology

Date 2023 Apr 6

PMID 37024449

Authors

Kyuhyun Choi

Eugenio Piasini

Edgar Diaz-Hernandez

Luigim Vargas Cifuentes

Nathan T Henderson

Elizabeth N Holly

Manivannan Subramaniyan

Charles R Gerfen

Marc V Fuccillo

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Abstract

Fronto-striatal circuits have been implicated in cognitive control of behavioral output for social and appetitive rewards. The functional diversity of prefrontal cortical populations is strongly dependent on their synaptic targets, with control of motor output mediated by connectivity to dorsal striatum. Despite evidence for functional diversity along the anterior-posterior striatal axis, it is unclear how distinct fronto-striatal sub-circuits support value-based choice. Here we found segregated prefrontal populations defined by anterior/posterior dorsomedial striatal target. During a feedback-based 2-alternative choice task, single-photon imaging revealed circuit-specific representations of task-relevant information with prelimbic neurons targeting anterior DMS (PL::A-DMS) robustly modulated during choices and negative outcomes, while prelimbic neurons targeting posterior DMS (PL::P-DMS) encoded internal representations of value and positive outcomes contingent on prior choice. Consistent with this distributed coding, optogenetic inhibition of PL::A-DMS circuits strongly impacted choice monitoring and responses to negative outcomes while inhibition of PL::P-DMS impaired task engagement and strategies following positive outcomes. Together our data uncover PL populations engaged in distributed processing for value-based choice.

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