PMID- 30096331 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20190318 LR - 20190318 IS - 1878-4216 (Electronic) IS - 0278-5846 (Linking) VI - 88 DP - 2019 Jan 10 TI - Spontaneous resurgence of conditioned fear weeks after successful extinction in brain injured mice. PG - 276-286 LID - S0278-5846(18)30307-5 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.pnpbp.2018.07.023 [doi] AB - Mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a major risk factor for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and both disorders share common symptoms and neurobiological defects. Relapse after successful treatment, known as long-term fear resurgence, is common in PTSD patients and a major therapeutic hurdle. We induced a mild focal TBI by controlled cortical impact (CCI) in male C57BL/6 J mice and used fear conditioning to assess PTSD-like behaviors and concomitant alterations in the fear circuitry. We found for the first time that mild TBI, and to a lesser extent sham (craniotomy), mice displayed a spontaneous resurgence of conditioned fear when tested for fear extinction memory recall, despite having effectively acquired and extinguished conditioned fear 6 weeks earlier in the same context. Other characteristic symptoms of PTSD are risk-taking behaviors and cognitive deficits. CCI mice displayed risk-taking behaviors, behavioral inflexibility and reductions in processing speed compared to naive mice. In conjunction with these changes there were alterations in amygdala morphology 3 months post-trauma, and decreased myelin basic protein density at the primary lesion site and in distant secondary sites such as the hippocampus, thalamus, and amygdala, compared to sham mice. Furthermore, activity-dependent brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) transcripts were decreased in the prefrontal cortex, a key region for fear extinction consolidation, following fear extinction training in both TBI and, to a lesser extent, sham mice. This study shows for the first time that a mild brain injury can generate a spontaneous resurgence of conditioned fear associated with defective BDNF signalling in the prefrontal cortex, PTSD-like behaviors, and have enduring effects on the brain. CI - Copyright (c) 2018 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. FAU - Corne, R AU - Corne R AD - EA4475 - Pharmacologie de la Circulation Cerebrale, Faculte de Pharmacie de Paris, Universite Paris Descartes, Paris, France. FAU - Leconte, C AU - Leconte C AD - EA4475 - Pharmacologie de la Circulation Cerebrale, Faculte de Pharmacie de Paris, Universite Paris Descartes, Paris, France. FAU - Ouradou, M AU - Ouradou M AD - EA4475 - Pharmacologie de la Circulation Cerebrale, Faculte de Pharmacie de Paris, Universite Paris Descartes, Paris, France. FAU - Fassina, V AU - Fassina V AD - EA4475 - Pharmacologie de la Circulation Cerebrale, Faculte de Pharmacie de Paris, Universite Paris Descartes, Paris, France. FAU - Zhu, Y AU - Zhu Y AD - EA4475 - Pharmacologie de la Circulation Cerebrale, Faculte de Pharmacie de Paris, Universite Paris Descartes, Paris, France. FAU - Deou, E AU - Deou E AD - EA4475 - Pharmacologie de la Circulation Cerebrale, Faculte de Pharmacie de Paris, Universite Paris Descartes, Paris, France. FAU - Besson, V AU - Besson V AD - EA4475 - Pharmacologie de la Circulation Cerebrale, Faculte de Pharmacie de Paris, Universite Paris Descartes, Paris, France. FAU - Plotkine, M AU - Plotkine M AD - EA4475 - Pharmacologie de la Circulation Cerebrale, Faculte de Pharmacie de Paris, Universite Paris Descartes, Paris, France. FAU - Marchand-Leroux, C AU - Marchand-Leroux C AD - EA4475 - Pharmacologie de la Circulation Cerebrale, Faculte de Pharmacie de Paris, Universite Paris Descartes, Paris, France. FAU - Mongeau, R AU - Mongeau R AD - EA4475 - Pharmacologie de la Circulation Cerebrale, Faculte de Pharmacie de Paris, Universite Paris Descartes, Paris, France. Electronic address: raymond.mongeau@parisdescartes.fr. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20180807 PL - England TA - Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry JT - Progress in neuro-psychopharmacology & biological psychiatry JID - 8211617 RN - 0 (Myelin Basic Protein) RN - 0 (RNA, Messenger) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Brain/metabolism MH - Brain Injuries/pathology/*physiopathology/*psychology MH - Conditioning, Classical/*physiology MH - Disease Models, Animal MH - Extinction, Psychological/*physiology MH - Fear/*physiology MH - Male MH - Maze Learning MH - Mental Recall MH - Mice MH - Mice, Inbred C57BL MH - Myelin Basic Protein/genetics/metabolism MH - Psychomotor Disorders/etiology MH - RNA, Messenger/metabolism MH - Risk-Taking MH - Statistics, Nonparametric MH - Time Factors OTO - NOTNLM OT - Barnes maze OT - Brain derived neurotrophic factor OT - Fear conditioning OT - Myelin basic protein OT - Post-traumatic stress disorder OT - Risk-taking behaviors EDAT- 2018/08/11 06:00 MHDA- 2019/03/19 06:00 CRDT- 2018/08/11 06:00 PHST- 2018/04/23 00:00 [received] PHST- 2018/06/28 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2018/07/29 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2018/08/11 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2019/03/19 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2018/08/11 06:00 [entrez] AID - S0278-5846(18)30307-5 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.pnpbp.2018.07.023 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry. 2019 Jan 10;88:276-286. doi: 10.1016/j.pnpbp.2018.07.023. Epub 2018 Aug 7.