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EphB2-dependent prefrontal cortex activation promotes long-range social approach and partner responsiveness.
- Source :
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America; 2/28/2023, Vol. 120 Issue 9, p1-10, 34p
- Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- Social behavior starts with dynamic approach prior to the final consummation. The flexible processes ensure mutual feedback across social brains to transmit signals. However, how the brain responds to the initial social stimuli precisely to elicit timed behaviors remains elusive. Here, by using real-time calcium recording, we identify the abnormalities of EphB2 mutant with autism-associated Q858X mutation in processing long-range approach and accurate activity of prefrontal cortex (dmPFC). The EphB2-dependent dmPFC activation precedes the behavioral onset and is actively associated with subsequent social action with the partner. Furthermore, we find that partner dmPFC activity is responsive coordinately to the approaching WT mouse rather than Q858X mutant mouse, and the social defects caused by the mutation are rescued by synchro-optogenetic activation in dmPFC of paired social partners. These results thus reveal that EphB2 sustains neuronal activation in the dmPFC that is essential for the proactive modulation of social approach to initial social interaction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- PREFRONTAL cortex
COGNITIVE therapy
SOCIAL action
SOCIAL interaction
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00278424
- Volume :
- 120
- Issue :
- 9
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 162148720
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2219952120