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Metabolic and Dietary Influences on Striatal Contributions to Taste-motivated Behavior

Award Number: K00DC021644
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DEAFNESS AND OTHER COMMUNICATION DISORDERS
OPDIV: NIH
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)

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Metabolic and Dietary Influences on Striatal Contributions to Taste-motivated Behavior - Abstract: The goal of this proposal is to elucidate how LC-NA promotes specific sleep features to directly facilitate insight gain. Sleep oscillations during NREM sleep have been identified that mediate memory updating and consolidation. LC noradrenergic neurons fire prior of slow waves, whereas LC becomes silent during spindle events all through NREM. A recent study from the Poe lab provided evidence that abnormal LC activity decreases sleep spindle density and affects memory consolidation. However, it is unclear how LC-NA activity gates sleep-dependent neural circuits to improve memory updating and temporal pattern recognition. Thus Aim 1 will use extracellular recordings, EGG/EMG and computational approaches to characterize LC noradrenergic activity patterns during sleep in animals that gain insight after a sleep period. Then in Aim 2 we will evaluate if LC noradrenergic activation or inhibition during sleep is essential to promote insight learning using optogenetic tools. Finally, in Aim 3 utilizing multi-structure extracellular recordings and optogenetic tools we will assess the effects of LC-NA projections to hippocampus (Hipp) and medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC). Taken together, the experiments to be performed in this proposal will provide valuable knowledge on how patterns of activity during sleep promote off-line mechanisms that allow for memory updating and provide novel therapeutic venues.


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2024 ( Subtotal = $93,870 )
2024	2024	UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA	3720 S FLOWER ST FL 3	LOS ANGELES	CA	90089	LOS ANGELES	USA	Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders	000	5	5/2/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$68,663
2024	2024	UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA	3720 S FLOWER ST FL 3	LOS ANGELES	CA	90089	LOS ANGELES	USA	Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders	001	5	5/18/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$25,207
														Subtotal = $93,870

Issue Date FY: 2023 ( Subtotal = $68,663 )
2023	2023	UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA	3720 S FLOWER ST	LOS ANGELES	CA	90089	LOS ANGELES	USA	Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders	000	4	5/23/2023	CHANGE OF GRANTEE / TRAINING INSTITUTION / AWARDING INSTITUTION	$68,663
2023	2023	UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA	3720 S FLOWER ST	LOS ANGELES	CA	90089	LOS ANGELES	USA	Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders	001	4	6/2/2023	CHANGE OF GRANTEE / TRAINING INSTITUTION / AWARDING INSTITUTION	$0
														Subtotal = $68,663

Grand Total All Awards = $162,533

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Metabolic and Dietary Influences on Striatal Contributions to Taste-motivated Behavior

Award Number: K00DC021644

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DEAFNESS AND OTHER COMMUNICATION DISORDERS

OPDIV: NIH

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)

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