Hypothalamic CRH neurons orchestrate complex behaviours after stress

Tamás Füzesi; Nuria Daviu; Jaclyn I. Wamsteeker Cusulin; Robert P. Bonin; Jaideep S. Bains

doi:10.1038/ncomms11937

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Hypothalamic CRH neurons orchestrate complex behaviours after stress

Tamás Füzesi Nuria Daviu

Jaclyn I. Wamsteeker Cusulin Robert P. Bonin Jaideep S. Bains

Nature Communications Vol. 7 No. 1 · Springer Science and Business Media LLC

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Abstract

AbstractAll organisms possess innate behavioural and physiological programmes that ensure survival. In order to have maximum adaptive benefit, these programmes must be sufficiently flexible to account for changes in the environment. Here we show that hypothalamic CRH neurons orchestrate an environmentally flexible repertoire of behaviours that emerge after acute stress in mice. Optical silencing of CRH neurons disrupts the organization of individual behaviours after acute stress. These behavioural patterns shift according to the environment after stress, but this environmental sensitivity is blunted by activation of PVN CRH neurons. These findings provide evidence that PVN CRH cells are part of a previously unexplored circuit that matches precise behavioural patterns to environmental context following stress. Overactivity in this network in the absence of stress may contribute to environmental ambivalence, resulting in context-inappropriate behavioural strategies.

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Published: Jun 16, 2016
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Jaclyn I. Wamsteeker Cusulin

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Tamás Füzesi, Nuria Daviu, Jaclyn I. Wamsteeker Cusulin, et al. (2016). Hypothalamic CRH neurons orchestrate complex behaviours after stress. Nature Communications, 7(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11937

Hypothalamic CRH neurons orchestrate complex behaviours after stress

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