Parvalbumin-expressing Basal Forebrain Neurons Mediate Learning from Negative Experience

Hegedüs, Panna and Király, Bálint and Schlingloff, Dániel and Lyakhova, Victoria and Velencei, Anna and Szabó, Írisz and Mayer, Márton I. and Zelenák, Zsófia and Nyíri, Gábor and Hangya, Balázs (2024) Parvalbumin-expressing Basal Forebrain Neurons Mediate Learning from Negative Experience. NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 15. No.-4768. ISSN 2041-1723

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Abstract

Parvalbumin (PV)-expressing GABAergic neurons of the basal forebrain (BFPVNs) were proposed to serve as a rapid and transient arousal system, yet their exact role in awake behaviors remains unclear. We performed bulk calcium measurements and electrophysiology with optogenetic tagging from the horizontal limb of the diagonal band of Broca (HDB) while male mice were performing an associative learning task. BFPVNs responded with a distinctive, phasic activation to punishment, but showed slower and delayed responses to reward and outcome-predicting stimuli. Optogenetic inhibition during punishment impaired the formation of cue-outcome associations, suggesting a causal role of BFPVNs in associative learning. BFPVNs received strong inputs from the hypothalamus, the septal complex and the median raphe region, while they synapsed on diverse cell types in key limbic structures, where they broadcasted information about aversive stimuli. We propose that the arousing effect of BFPVNs is recruited by aversive stimuli to serve crucial associative learning functions.

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