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Lectures 15 and 16
Rachel A. Kaplan and Elbert Heng4.8.14
LECTURE 15: SYNAPTIC PLASTICITY
LECTURE 16: BEHAVIORAL NEUROBIOLOGY
Overview
• What/Why/How Study Animal Behavior?• Behavior Examples• Considerations• Application: Fast Escape Response
Ethology
• What?– Study of animal behavior
• Why?– Important: understanding implications of
manipulation of animal system (as a model)– Animal models of diseases/mechanism
• How?– Correlation, sufficiency and necessity let us draw
conclusions about neurobiology of behavior
Behaviors
• Responses to releasing stimuli– e.g. Egg Rolling• Stimulus (egg) triggers fixed action pattern
– e.g. Seagull Chick Feeding• Stimulus (spot color) triggers pecking
• Supernormal stimuli: allows us to study nature of what an animal is actually responding to in a stimulus
Behaviors
• Social Behaviors– Also ritualized due to evolutionary pressure• Which suggests that behavior has genetic components
– e.g. courtship of flies and swans
Considerations
• Want to study the behaviors as the animals do them
• Animals are different– Different perceptions/adaptations which means
their brain circuitry is different and may not be translatable without modulation/caution
• Strange animals can give us insight into strange capacities
Behavior: Fast Escape Response
• Fish sense a stimulus (hunter creates vibrations in water) and have a reflex (neural circuit) to execute the fast escape response behavior.
• Requirements– FAST– Turn the fish around• Do it the right way• And only once
Stimulus Contralateral Contraction
• Vibrations stimulate hair cells in ear/lateral line• These cells transmit signal via CN VIII to the M cell• M cell synapses on motor neuron on contralateral
side of fish• Motor neuron activation contracts muscle• FISH TURNS
Stimulus Ipsilateral Relaxation
• Same path to M Cell• M Cell synapses on inhibitory interneuron• Interneuron inhibits motor neuron on
ipsilateral side• FISH DOESN’T CONTRACT OTHER SIDE TOO
Preventing Multiple Responses
• From ipsilateral side stimulus– Feedback inhibition• M cell synapses on inhibitory collateral neuron which
inhibits M cell via axon cap inhibition
• From contralateral side– Feedforward inhibition• CN VIII synapses on PHP interneurons which directly
inhibit M cells bilaterally
Recap of Special Physiology
• Interneurons: usually present to switch polarity of signal (exciting an inhibitory interneuron will inhibit whatever cell the interneuron synapses on)– PHP cells are interneurons
• Axon cap: a big high resistance structure of glia and axons of PHP cells. – PHP cells spike, drawing + charges into axon from
surrounding axon cap and then out into cap, which makes the axon cap more positive, creating a higher potential across axon cap wall and M cell, hyperpolarizing the M cell.
PPI and M Cell Network
• Applications of our understanding of the network:– Research on PPI and schizophrenia• Drug research