Nature Communications (Dec 2022)

Median raphe serotonergic neurons projecting to the interpeduncular nucleus control preference and aversion

  • Hiroyuki Kawai,
  • Youcef Bouchekioua,
  • Naoya Nishitani,
  • Kazuhei Niitani,
  • Shoma Izumi,
  • Hinako Morishita,
  • Chihiro Andoh,
  • Yuma Nagai,
  • Masashi Koda,
  • Masako Hagiwara,
  • Koji Toda,
  • Hisashi Shirakawa,
  • Kazuki Nagayasu,
  • Yu Ohmura,
  • Makoto Kondo,
  • Katsuyuki Kaneda,
  • Mitsuhiro Yoshioka,
  • Shuji Kaneko

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35346-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 22

Abstract

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Appropriate processing of value information is essential for survival. Here the authors show that in mice, serotonergic activations originating from the median raphe nucleus facilitated aversion in a pathway-dependent manner, while silencing this pathway was rewarding.