Hijacking a dedicated entorhinal-hippocampal extinction circuit to remove traumatic memory
Lin, Z.-J.; Gu, X.; Gong, W.-K.; Wang, M.; Wu, Y.-J.; Wang, Q.; Wu, X.-R.; Zhao, X.-Y.; Zhu, M. X.; Wang, L.-Y.; Liu, Q.; Yuan, T.-F.; Li, W.-G.; Xu, T.-L.
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Effective psychotherapy of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) remains challenging due to the fragile nature of fear extinction, for which ventral hippocampal CA1 (vCA1) region is considered as a central hub. However, neither the core pathway nor the cellular mechanisms involved in implementing extinction are known. Here, we unveil a direct pathway, where layer 2a fan cells in the lateral entorhinal cortex (LEC) target parvalbumin-expressing interneurons (PV-INs) in the vCA1 region to propel low gamma-band synchronization of the LEC-vCA1 activity during extinction learning. Bidirectional manipulations of either hippocampal PV-INs or LEC fan cells suffice fear extinction. Gamma entrainment of vCA1 by deep brain stimulation (DBS) or noninvasive transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) of LEC persistently enhances the PV-IN activity in vCA1, thereby promoting fear extinction. These results demonstrate that the LEC-vCA1 pathway forms a top-down motif to empower low gamma-band oscillations that facilitate fear extinction. Finally, application of low gamma DBS and tACS to a mouse model with persistent PTSD shows potent efficacy, suggesting that the dedicated LEC-vCA1 pathway can be hijacked for therapy to remove traumatic memory trace. Graphical Abstract O_FIG O_LINKSMALLFIG WIDTH=200 HEIGHT=199 SRC="FIGDIR/small/593830v1_ufig1.gif" ALT="Figure 1"> View larger version (57K): org.highwire.dtl.DTLVardef@ca6768org.highwire.dtl.DTLVardef@4ae574org.highwire.dtl.DTLVardef@11e4ff5org.highwire.dtl.DTLVardef@1136cc2_HPS_FORMAT_FIGEXP M_FIG C_FIG
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