Schizophrenia research has increased in recent decades and focused more on its neural basis. Decision-making and cognitive flexibility are the main cognitive functions that are impaired and considered schizophrenia endophenotypes. Cognitive impairment was recently connected with altered functions of N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDAR) glutamatergic receptors, which increased cortical activity. Selective NMDAR antagonists, such as MK-801, have been used to model cognitive inflexibility in schizophrenia. Decreased GABAergic inhibitory activity has been shown elsewhere with enhanced cortical activity. This imbalance in the excitatory/inhibitory may reduce the entrainment of prefrontal gamma and hippocampal theta rhythms and result in gamma/theta band de-synchronization. The current study established an acute MK-801 administration model of schizophrenia-like cognitive inflexibility in rats and used the attentional set-shifting task in which rats learned to switch/reverse the relevant rule. During the task, we used in vivo optogenetic stimulations of parvalbumin-positive interneurons at specific light pulses in the prefrontal cortex and ventral hippocampus. The first experiments showed that acute dizocilpine in rats produced schizophrenia-like cognitive inflexibility. The second set of experiments demonstrated that specific optogenetic stimulation at specific frequencies of parvalbumin-positive interneurons in the prefrontal cortex and ventral hippocampus rescued the cognitive flexibility rats that received acute MK-801. These findings advance our knowledge of the pivotal role of parvalbumin interneurons in schizophrenia-like cognitive impairment and may guide further research on this severe psychiatric disorder.

• MeSH
• Dizocilpine Maleate * pharmacology   MeSH
• Hippocampus metabolism   MeSH
• Interneurons metabolism   MeSH
• Cognition MeSH
• Rats MeSH
• Optogenetics MeSH
• Parvalbumins metabolism   MeSH
• Prefrontal Cortex metabolism   MeSH
• Receptors, N-Methyl-D-Aspartate metabolism   MeSH
• Schizophrenia * MeSH
• Animals MeSH
• Check Tag
• Rats MeSH
• Animals MeSH
• Publication type
• Journal Article MeSH
• Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't MeSH

Poruchy kognitivních funkcí jsou považovány za klíčový příznak schizofrenie a předpovídají terapeutický výsledek. Velmi významně narušují denní fungování pacientů se schizofrenií, a přesto dosud neexistuje cílená léčba kognitivního deficitu u schizofrenie. V tomto translačním projektu plánujeme objasnit kauzální roli hipokampálně-prefrontálních projekcí v kognitivní koordinace a flexibilitě. Rovněž ukážeme na příčinnou roli frontotemporální theta koherence a synchronie pomocí optogenetické kontroly aktivity PV+ interneuronů u volně pohyblivých potkanů. V klinické části otestujeme vliv frontotemporální synchronizace na kognitivní koordinaci a flexibilitu ve skupině 35 pacientů v remisi a u 35 zdravých kontrol s využitím hrEEG/fMRI měření a testů virtuální reality. Hlavním cílem je objasnění neurobiologického substrátu kognitivního deficitu u schizofrenie, které umožní inteligentní design nových léčebných postupů. Výsledky projektu jednoznačně ukážou složky frontotemporální dysfunkce u schizofrenie a otevřou cestu pro budoucí specifickou terapii kognitivního deficitu.; Disturbances of cognitive functions have been recognized as hallmarks of schizophrenia and predictors of therapeutic outcome. They significantly limit patient ́s functioning, yet there are no specific treatments for cognitive deficits in this disease. In this translational project, we seek to determine the causal role of hippocampal-prefrontal projections in cognitive coordination and flexibility. Moreover, causative role of frontotemporal theta coherence and synchrony will be revealed by controlling PV+ interneuron activity in freely-moving rats. The human part will test relations of frontotemporal synchrony to coordination and flexibility in 35 remitted schizophrenia patients and 35 matched healthy controls using a hrEEG/fMRI measurements and tests of the virtual reality. The overall aim is to elucidate a neuronal substrate for cognitive deficits in schizophrenia for an intelligent design of new treatments. Results of this project will unequivocally show the constituents of frontotemporal dysfunction in schizophrenia and open way for future treatment of cognitive deficits.

• MeSH
• Electroencephalography MeSH
• Hippocampus MeSH
• Cognitive Dysfunction etiology   physiopathology   MeSH
• Rats MeSH
• Humans MeSH
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging MeSH
• Disease Models, Animal MeSH
• Synaptic Transmission MeSH
• Neuroimaging MeSH
• Optogenetics MeSH
• Prefrontal Cortex MeSH
• Schizophrenia diagnosis   MeSH
• Translational Research, Biomedical MeSH
• Virtual Reality MeSH
• Animals MeSH
• Check Tag
• Rats MeSH
• Humans MeSH
• Animals MeSH

• Conspectus
• Patologie. Klinická medicína
• NML Fields
• neurologie
• psychiatrie
• NML Publication type
• závěrečné zprávy o řešení grantu AZV MZ ČR