RRC ID 80061
著者 Ryo Sasaki, Yasumi Ohta, Hirotaka Onoe, Reona Yamaguchi, Takeshi Miyamoto, Takashi Tokuda, Yuki Tamaki, Kaoru Isa, Jun Takahashi, Kenta Kobayashi, Jun Ohta, Tadashi Isa
タイトル Balancing risk-return decisions by manipulating the mesofrontal circuits in primates
ジャーナル Science
Abstract Decision-making is always coupled with some level of risk, with more pathological forms of risk-taking decisions manifesting as gambling disorders. In macaque monkeys trained in a high risk–high return (HH) versus low risk–low return (LL) choice task, we found that the reversible pharmacological inactivation of ventral Brodmann area 6 (area 6V) impaired the risk dependency of decision-making. Selective optogenetic activation of the mesofrontal pathway from the ventral tegmental area (VTA) to the ventral aspect of 6V resulted in stronger preference for HH, whereas activation of the pathway from the VTA to the dorsal aspect of 6V led to LL preference. Finally, computational decoding captured the modulations of behavioral preference. Our results suggest that VTA inputs to area 6V determine the decision balance between HH and LL.
巻・号 383
ページ 55-61
公開日 2024-1-5
DOI 10.1126/science.adj6645
PMID 38175903
MeSH Animals Macaca fuscata Risk-Taking* Ventral Tegmental Area* / cytology Ventral Tegmental Area* / physiology
IF 41.846
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