the Brain Matter of Us An Investigation on Memory
Consolidation
MIKE HUANG
Constructing
What is memory consolidation?
• Experiences Schemas – self construct, world views, social roles, beliefs, attitudes, knowledge, etc…
• Episodic Semantic – declarative/explicit• Context Dependent Context Independent• Hippocampal Dependent Hippocampal
Independent• MTL Neocortex• Short term - unstable Long term - stable• LTP Protein Synthesis
Overview of Presentation
• Systems consolidation: How do various brain regions interact with each other that forms/modifies our schemas?
• What is the nature of the episodic semantic memory interaction?
• Cellular consolidation: How does the incredibly intricately complex machinery in our cells work to consolidate memory?
Memory FormationExperience -> Ensemble of
bound HC(index) + NC neurons• Hippocampal dependency of
episodic memory
ConsolidationCombine related episodic
memories schemas• Schemas formed in neocortex
(context independent)ReconsolidationOlder memories = ↑traces = ↑retrievals = ↑integration of
experiences to schemas• New experiences old
memories recalled reorganization of old memories (context dependent)
Multiple Trace Theory: Transformation Hypothesis
A Computational Model
MTT Modeled to Account for Current Data
Hippocampal dependency of episodic memory
Neural dissociation of episodic/semantic
Recently retrieved memories = HC/context dependent
Evidence/Data: Hippocampal dependency of episodic memory
• Amnesia PatientsKC: MTL damage -> loss of all episodic memory/retention of semantic
memory
•Neural dissociation of episodic/semantic
Evidence/data: Recently retrieved memories = HC/context dependent
• Amnesia patients: – HM: hippocampus removal – 11yr temporally
graded amnesia
Evidence/data: Recently retrieved memories = HC/context dependent
• 25yr memory retrieval – hippocampus fMRI• Recent memory retrieval – hippocampus fMRI
• RESULT: Same activation!
Episodic -> Semantic interactions
• Material inconsistent w/ existing schema alter material to fit(1)
Neocortex
• Emotional memories enhances consolidation(2)
• Fear conditioning(4)
Amygdala
• Novelty(3)
• Emotional significance(3)VTA
Memory Formation in HC+NCEnthorhinal
Cortex Spatial
memory, context/event associations
CA1CA3Indexes of neocortical memory by LTP
Long Term Potentiation: Short-term Synaptic Plasticity
• Early LTP
Cellular Consolidation via Protein Synthesis: Long-Term Synaptic Plasticity
Evidence – Immediate Early Genes
• LTP’s molecular cascade induces gene expression– Ca2+ PKA cAMP CREB HAT gene expression – Ca2+ CaMKII gene expression
New techniques can block IEGs without controversial confounding side effects- antisense ODN - cellular compartment analysis of temporal activity by fluorescence in situ hybridization
Roles of IEGs• Activity induced RTFs: c-fos, c-jun, zif268
– transcribes more proteins: delayed effector genes
• Effector IEGs– Cellular growth
• BDNF• Narp
– Intracellular signaling• RheB• RGS-2• Homer 1a
– Synaptic modification• Arc• Homer 1a• Narp• Tissue plasminogen activator• BDNF
– Metabolism• COX-2
– Synaptic homeostasis• Arc• Homer 1a
Closeup Analysis of an Effector IEG - Arc
Activity Regulated Cytoskeleton-associated protein
• Shows up exactly in neural networks activated by behavior
• mRNA transport to and expression at activated synapses• Requisite for both late-LTP and long term memory
– EXPERIMENT: provide antisense ODN to block arc before training in water maze, compare with control.
– RESULT: blocked arc prevented learning– EXPERIMENT: arc KO mouse in spatial water maze task, cued and contextual fear conditioning,
conditioned taste aversion, object recognition, Failed learning
• Modification of synaptic function
Experience The birth of Arc
Plasticity PartnersαCaMKII Arc Expression
• Ca2+ αCaMKII Arc Expression• Expressed in striatum, hippocampus,
neocortex (1)
– In vitro αCaMKII in neuroblastoma cells -> Neurite outgrowth (2)
Functions of Arc
• Destabilizing the cytoskeleton through interactions with microtubule associate protein 2 (MAP2)– Co-pricipitate w/ actin and GluR4
• Homeostatic synaptic scaling through the endocytosis of AMPA receptors• Sleep, homeostatic synaptic scaling and memory consolidation
Arc regulation of synaptic networks
• catFISH - cellular compartment analysis of temporal activity by fluorescence in situ hybridization
– imaging of transcription activation with high temporal and cellular resolution
• Exploration of the same environment twice induced Arc in highly similar ensembles of neurons, whereas exploration of different environments induces Arc in distinct ensembles.
What about ALL the genes?
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