Corticotropin-releasing Hormone Neurons Control Trigeminal Neuralgia-induced Anxiodepression Via a Hippocampus-to-prefrontal Circuit

Overview

Journal Sci Adv

Specialties Biology
Science

Date 2024 Jan 19

PMID 38241377

Authors

Su-Su Lv

Xue-Jing Lv

Ya-Qi Cai

Xin-Yu Hou

Zhi-Zhe Zhang

Guo-Hong Wang

Li-Qiang Chen

Ning Lv

Yu-Qiu Zhang

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Abstract

Anxiety and depression are frequently observed in patients suffering from trigeminal neuralgia (TN), but neural circuits and mechanisms underlying this association are poorly understood. Here, we identified a dedicated neural circuit from the ventral hippocampus (vHPC) to the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) that mediates TN-related anxiodepression. We found that TN caused an increase in excitatory synaptic transmission from vHPC neurons to mPFC inhibitory neurons marked by the expression of corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH). Activation of CRH neurons subsequently led to feed-forward inhibition of layer V pyramidal neurons in the mPFC via activation of the CRH receptor 1 (CRHR1). Inhibition of the vHPC-mPFC circuit ameliorated TN-induced anxiodepression, whereas activating this pathway sufficiently produced anxiodepressive-like behaviors. Thus, our studies identified a neural pathway driving pain-related anxiodepression and a molecular target for treating pain-related psychiatric disorders.

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