Differential Rearing Effects on Impulsivity...Introduction Environmental enrichment during rearing...
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Differential Rearing Effects on
Impulsivity
Kimberly Kirkpatrick
Andrew Marshall
Kansas State University
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Introduction
Environmental enrichment during rearing produces a variety of neurobiological and behavioral changes
Environmental enrichment appears to provide a “protective effect” against addictive behaviors
◦ This may be due to impulsivity, which has been linked with drug abuse
◦ Impulsivity is a vulnerability factor in drug use initiation, and also predicts relapse following participation in treatment programs
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Introduction
Impulsive choice
◦ A smaller magnitude available after a shorter
delay (the SS) versus a larger magnitude
available after a longer delay (the LL)
Impulsive action
◦ Individuals must withhold/inhibit responding
at particular times
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Introduction
Enrichment and impulsive choice◦ Perry et al. (2008) – Enriched condition (EC) rats
displayed decreased impulsive choice
◦ Hellmans et al. (2005) – Isolated condition (IC) rats displayed decreased impulsive choice
Enrichment and impulsive action◦ Hill et al. (2012) – IC displayed fewer impulsive
responses
◦ Ough et al. (1972) – EC displayed better inhibition of responses
◦ Zeeb et al. (2013) and Dalley et al. (2002) – IC displayed decreased premature responding
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Impulsive choice, impulsive action, and reward
discrimination
Kirkpatrick et al. (in press). Behavioral Neuroscience
Experiment 1
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Experiment 1: Rearing Method
Rats reared for 30
days
◦ Enriched Condition
(EC, n=9)
◦ Isolated Condition
(IC, n=9)
Rearing environment
maintained during
behavioral testing
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Group Phase 1 Phase 2
1 (2) Impulsive Choice
SS: 1 pellet, 10 s
LL: 2 pellets, 30 s
Reward Challenge
SS: 1 pellet, 30 s
LL: 2 pellets, 30 s
2 (1) DRL 30 s DRL 60 s
Experiment 1: Behavioral Testing
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Experiment 1: Impulsive Choice and
Reward Challenge Results
IC EC
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Experiment 1: Impulsive Action
Results
IC EC
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Experiment 1: Summary
EC rats showed a trend towards increased LL choices, but not significant◦ Follow-up in Experiment 2 by testing impulsive choice
over a wider range of parameters
EC rats displayed deficits in reward discrimination in the reward challenge task
EC rats also displayed deficits in impulsive action (DRL 30)
Both of these results suggest deficits in reward sensitivity and/or reward-seeking behaviors in the EC rats◦ Follow-up in Experiment 3 by testing their reward
magnitude sensitivity
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Impulsive choice behavior
Kirkpatrick et al. (in preparation). Behavioural Brain
Research
Experiment 2
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Experiment 2: Rearing Method
Rats reared for 30
days
◦ Enriched Condition
(EC, n=11)
◦ Isolated condition (IC,
n=12)
Rearing environment
maintained during
behavioral testing
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Experiment 2 Method: Behavioral
Testing
10 s
30 s
10 s
30 s
10 s
30 s
Impulsive Choice
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Experiment 2 Results: Impulsive
Choice
EC rats were more
likely to choose the
LL (self-controlled)
option as the LL
magnitude increased
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IC
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Experiment 2 Results: Impulsive
slope versus mean
IC rats were more
likely to be “SS
responders”
EC rats were more
likely to be “Adaptive
decision makers”
Distributional shift
with environmental
rearing“SS responders”
“LL responders”
“Adaptive decision makers”IC EC
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Reward magnitude sensitivity
Kirkpatrick et al. (in press). Behavioral Neuroscience
Experiment 3
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Experiment 3: Rearing Method
Rats reared for 30 days
◦ Enriched condition (EC, n=8)
◦ Standard condition (SC, n=8)
◦ Isolated condition (IC, n=8)
Rearing conditions maintained during behavioral testing
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Experiment 3 Method: Reward
Sensitivity Discrete-trial, two-lever, VI 30-s schedule
◦ Only one lever inserted at a time
◦ Delivered a series of magnitudes
1:1, 1:2, 1:3, 2:3, 1:4, 2:4
VI 30 s 120-s ITI
VI 30 s 120-s ITI
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Experiment 3: Baseline Results
IC rats respond
more for 1-pellet
food rewards during
baseline VI 30 s
schedule
No difference
between “Small” and
“Large” levers (no
pre-existing lever
biases)
IC SC EC
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Experiment 3: Reward Sensitivity,
Large Lever All rearing conditions
significantly increased their relative response rate on the large lever as a function of reward magnitude
No effect of rearing condition on response to LG reward
IC SC EC
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Experiment 3: Reward Sensitivity,
Small Lever
EC and SC rats
increased responding
on the small lever
IC rats did not
change their
responding on the
small lever
IC SC EC
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Overall Summary EC (and SC) rats compared to IC rats:
◦ Poorer reward magnitude discrimination in both choice (Exp 1) and reward sensitivity (Exp 3) paradigms May be due to increased generalization between magnitudes
◦ Poorer performance on the DRL 30 task (Exp 1), a measure of impulsive action Replicates Hill, Zeeb and Dalley studies
◦ Increased self-controlled choices in the impulsive choice task (Exp 2) Replicates Perry
The results suggest that enrichment may be reducing reward sensitivity/discrimination and reward seeking behaviors
◦ Lower reward sensitivity and/or motivation to seek rewards could play a role in the protective effect of enrichment against drug-seeking behaviors.
◦ IC rats are better at reward-earning, except in the impulsive choice task
Another possibility…
◦ Differences in exploration/exploitation
◦ EC rats appear to sample their environment more frequently
Perhaps a combination of exploration and reward-seeking differences could explain the results of the combined experiments?
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Acknowledgements
Aaron Smith
Jon Smith
Dr. Tiffany Galtress
Dr. Mary Cain
Kansas State USRG funding