Entorhinal cortical delta oscillations drive memory consolidation
2023
Juhee Haam | Suman Gunin | Leslie Wilson | Sydney Fry | Briana Bernstein | Eric Thomson | Hayden Noblet | Jesse Cushman | Jerrel L. Yakel
Summary: Long-term memories are formed by creating stable memory representations via memory consolidation, which mainly occurs during sleep following the encoding of labile memories in the hippocampus during waking. The entorhinal cortex (EC) has intricate connections with the hippocampus, but its role in memory consolidation is largely unknown. Using cell-type- and input-specific in vivo neural activity recordings, here we show that the temporoammonic pathway neurons in the EC, which directly innervate the output area of the hippocampus, exhibit potent oscillatory activities during anesthesia and sleep. Using in vivo individual and populational neuronal activity recordings, we demonstrate that a subpopulation of the temporoammonic pathway neurons, which we termed sleep cells, generate delta oscillations via hyperpolarization-activated cyclic-nucleotide-gated channels during sleep. The blockade of these oscillations significantly impaired the consolidation of hippocampus-dependent memory. Together, our findings uncover a key driver of delta oscillations and memory consolidation that are found in the EC.
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