Bhaskar, Yamini and Lim, Lee Wei and Mitra, Rupshi (2018) Enriched Environment Facilitates Anxiolytic Efficacy Driven by Deep-Brain Stimulation of Medial Prefrontal Cortex. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 12. ISSN 1662-5153
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Abstract
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is a widely used treatment for neurodegenerative disorders like Parkinson’s disease. Recently, several studies have used preclinical animal models to suggest that DBS has a potential to improve emotional symptoms in mental disorders such as treatment-resistant depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. An important difference between neurodegenerative and emotional disorders is the crucial role of environment in the ontogeny of the latter. Thus, it is important to understand the effects of DBS in the context of environmental variation. In this study, we show that DBS of ventromedial prefrontal cortex reduces anxiety in rats when it is coupled with simultaneous exposure to an enriched environment (EE). In contrast, effects of DBS on anxiety-like behaviors remained equivocal when animals were housed in standard laboratory conditions. These results suggest that the ability of DBS to treat anxiety and related phenotypes can be significantly enhanced by EE opportunities.
Item Type: | Article |
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Subjects: | Research Asian Plos > Medical Science |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email support@research.asianplos.com |
Date Deposited: | 24 Feb 2023 09:43 |
Last Modified: | 27 Sep 2024 03:30 |
URI: | http://abstract.stmdigitallibrary.com/id/eprint/169 |