Cell Reports (Jan 2025)

Spike frequency adaptation in primate lateral prefrontal cortex neurons results from interplay between intrinsic properties and circuit dynamics

  • Nils A. Koch,
  • Benjamin W. Corrigan,
  • Michael Feyerabend,
  • Roberto A. Gulli,
  • Michelle S. Jimenez-Sosa,
  • Mohamad Abbass,
  • Julia K. Sunstrum,
  • Sara Matovic,
  • Megan Roussy,
  • Rogelio Luna,
  • Samuel A. Mestern,
  • Borna Mahmoudian,
  • Susheel Vijayraghavan,
  • Hiroyuki Igarashi,
  • Kartik S. Pradeepan,
  • William J. Assis,
  • J. Andrew Pruszynski,
  • Shreejoy Tripathy,
  • Jochen F. Staiger,
  • Guillermo Gonzalez-Burgos,
  • Andreas Neef,
  • Stefan Treue,
  • Stefan Everling,
  • Wataru Inoue,
  • Anmar Khadra,
  • Julio C. Martinez-Trujillo

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 44, no. 1
p. 115159

Abstract

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Summary: Cortical neurons in brain slices display intrinsic spike frequency adaptation (I-SFA) to constant current inputs, while extracellular recordings show extrinsic SFA (E-SFA) during sustained visual stimulation. Inferring how I-SFA contributes to E-SFA during behavior is challenging due to the isolated nature of slice recordings. To address this, we recorded macaque lateral prefrontal cortex (LPFC) neurons in vivo during a visually guided saccade task and in vitro in brain slices. Broad-spiking (BS) putative pyramidal cells and narrow-spiking (NS) putative inhibitory interneurons exhibit both E-SFA and I-SFA. Developing a data-driven hybrid circuit model comprising NS model neurons receiving BS input reveals that NS model neurons exhibit longer SFA than observed in vivo; however, adding feedforward inhibition corrects this in a manner dependent on I-SFA. Identification of this circuit motif shaping E-SFA in LPFC highlights the roles of both intrinsic and network mechanisms in neural activity underlying behavior.

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