Esteban A Oyarzabal, Li-Ming Hsu, Manasmita Das, Tzu-Hao Harry Chao, Jingheng Zhou, Sheng Song, Weiting Zhang, Kathleen G Smith, Natale R Sciolino, Irina Y Evsyukova, Hong Yuan, Sung-Ho Lee, Guohong Cui, Patricia Jensen, Yen-Yu Ian Shih
The default mode network (DMN) of the brain is functionally associated with a wide range of behaviors. In this study, we used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), positron emission tomography (PET), and spectral fiber photometry to investigate the selective neuromodulatory effect of norepinephrine (NE)-releasing noradrenergic neurons in the locus coeruleus (LC) on the mouse DMN. Chemogenetic-induced tonic LC activity decreased cerebral blood volume (CBV) and glucose uptake and increased synchronous low-frequency fMRI activity within the frontal cortices of the DMN...
April 29, 2022: Science Advances