| Budget Amount *help |
¥12,350,000 (Direct Cost: ¥9,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥2,850,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥2,860,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥660,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥4,940,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,140,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥4,550,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,050,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Cholinergic interneurons in the DMS appear to play the central role of behavioural flexibility. Here, we conducted immunotoxin-mediated cell targeting of DMS cholinergic interneurons and examined the functions of these interneurons in behavioural flexibility, with the learning conditions differing in trial spacing. Elimination of the DMS cholinergic cell group impaired the reversal performance in response discrimination with the short ITI. In contrast, DMS cholinergic elimination resulted in enhanced reversal performance in response discrimination tasks with longer ITIs. These findings suggest distinct roles of the DMS cholinergic cell group in behavioural flexibility dependent on the trial spacing constituting the learning tasks.
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