A Corticostriatal Balancing Act Supports Skill Learning

Victoria L Corbit; Susanne E Ahmari; Aryn H Gittis

doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2017.09.046

A Corticostriatal Balancing Act Supports Skill Learning

Neuron. 2017 Oct 11;96(2):253-255. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2017.09.046.

Authors

Victoria L Corbit¹, Susanne E Ahmari², Aryn H Gittis³

Affiliations

¹ Center for Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Department of Psychiatry, Translational Neuroscience Program, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
² Department of Psychiatry, Translational Neuroscience Program, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Center for Neuroscience Program and Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
³ Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, 4400 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA. Electronic address: agittis@cmu.edu.

PMID: 29024650
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2017.09.046

Abstract

In this issue of Neuron, Kupferschmidt et al. (2017) reveal the shifting dynamics of functionally defined corticostriatal pathways during skill learning in mice using fiber photometry. They show different time courses in plasticity of associative and sensorimotor circuits across learning that involve changes at both the synaptic and cortical level.

MeSH terms

Animals
Corpus Striatum*
Learning
Mice
Neuronal Plasticity*
Neurons

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