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  • Behavioral Neuroscience
  • Systems Neuroscience

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  • Animal contextual fear conditioning (CFC) models are crucial for understanding posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) neural mechanisms.
  • The retrosplenial cortex (RSC), comprising dysgranular (RSCd) and granular (RSCg) subregions, is increasingly recognized for its role in CFC.
  • Specific functional roles of RSCd and RSCg in fear memory encoding remain poorly understood.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To elucidate the distinct roles of RSCd and RSCg in contextual fear memory encoding.
  • To investigate the underlying brain network mechanisms influenced by RSCd and RSCg inactivation.
  • To analyze changes in brain network properties during the encoding phase of CFC.

Main Methods:

  • Pharmacological inactivation of RSCd and RSCg in rats undergoing CFC.
  • 18F-FDG PET/CT scanning to assess brain metabolic activity during encoding.
  • Graph theory analysis to map brain-wide metabolic networks and evaluate nodal properties.

Main Results:

  • Rats with inactivated RSCd exhibited impaired contextual memory retrieval, unlike those with inactivated RSCg.
  • The RSC, hippocampus (Hip), amygdala (Amy), piriform cortex (Pir), and visual cortex (VC) function as critical hub nodes in the fear memory encoding network.
  • Inactivation of RSCd reduced hippocampal nodal efficiency and its connectivity with Amy, Pir, and VC.

Conclusions:

  • The RSC's role in contextual fear memory encoding is primarily mediated by its dysgranular (RSCd) subregion.
  • RSCd integrity is essential for normal hippocampal-amygdalar system function during fear memory encoding.
  • These findings highlight RSCd as a key component in the neural circuitry of PTSD-related fear memories.