Attention and motivated response to simulated male advertisement call activates forebrain dopaminergic and social decision-making network nuclei in female midshipman fish

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Little is known regarding the coordination of audition with decision-making and subsequent motor responses that initiate social behavior including mate localization during courtship. Using the midshipman fish model, we tested the hypothesis that the time spent by females attending and responding to the advertisement call is correlated with the activation of a specific subset of catecholaminergic (CA) and social decision-making network (SDM) nuclei underlying auditory- driven sexual motivation. In addition, we quantified the relationship of neural activation between CA and SDM nuclei in all responders with the goal of providing a map of functional connectivity of the circuitry underlying a motivated state responsive to acoustic cues during mate localization. In order to make a baseline qualitative comparison of this functional brain map to unmotivated females, we made a similar correlative comparison of brain activation in females who were unresponsive to the advertisement call playback. Our results support an important role for dopaminergic neurons in the periventricular posterior tuberculum and ventral thalamus, putative A11 and A13 tetrapod homologues, respectively, as well as the posterior parvocellular preoptic area and dorsomedial telencephalon, (laterobasal amygdala homologue) in auditory attention and appetitive sexual behavior in fishes. These findings may also offer insights into the function of these highly conserved nuclei in the context of auditory-driven reproductive social behavior across vertebrates.

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Forlano, P. M., Licorish, R. R., Ghahramani, Z. N., Timothy, M., Ferrari, M., Palmer, W. C., & Sisneros, J. A. (2017). Attention and motivated response to simulated male advertisement call activates forebrain dopaminergic and social decision-making network nuclei in female midshipman fish. In Integrative and Comparative Biology (Vol. 57, pp. 820–834). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icx053

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