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A cluster of basal ganglia output neurons (green) that convey emotion information to the movement circuit to control action. Dopaminergic neurons (red) are also present in the image.<\/p>\n

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LA JOLLA\u2014During high stress situations such as making a goal in soccer, some athletes experience a rapid decline in performance under pressure, known as \u201cchoking.\u201d Now, Salk Institute researchers have uncovered what might be behind the phenomenon: one-way signals from the brain\u2019s emotion circuit to the movement circuit. The study, which was published online on September 6, 2019, in eLife<\/em><\/a>, could lead to new strategies for treating disorders with disrupted movement, such as obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety and depression, along with aiding in recovery from spinal cord injuries or physical performance under pressure.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis finding is very exciting as it is the first time that a comprehensive circuit mechanism has been found showing how emotional states can influence movement through connections in an area of the brain called the basal ganglia, a region involved in guiding behavior,\u201d says Associate Professor Xin Jin<\/a>, senior author on the paper. \u201cWe did not previously know much about this pathway, so it brings about a whole new paradigm for examining psychiatric disorders as well as spinal cord injury.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was previously believed that the brain\u2019s emotion and movement loops worked like parallel closed circuits, operating independently to relay important information. However, researchers suspected that there could be some influence of emotion on movement due to the observation that, in neuropsychiatric conditions such as depression, decreased physical movement is a symptom and could be linked to disrupted emotional processing and reduced motivation. Yet, scientists did not know much about the connections within each circuit or how the circuits might interact.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe wanted to explore how emotion information reaches the movement circuitry in the brain by using a combination of cutting-edge viral and optogenetic techniques,\u201d says Sho Aoki, co-first author and postdoctoral fellow in the Jin lab.<\/p>\n

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From left: Xin Jin, Sho Aoki and Hao Li.<\/p>\n

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The scientists sought to trace these circuits in rodent models to better understand each step of neuronal communication. They focused on the emotion and movement brain loops, starting from a region involved in emotion (the medial prefrontal cortex) and a region involved in movement (the primary motor cortex). They used multiple genetic and viral tracing tools, including a technique developed by Salk Professor Ed Callaway\u2019s<\/a> lab, to observe how each loop was organized in the brain.<\/p>\n

To the researchers\u2019 surprise, they found a one-way communication pathway from the emotion loop to the movement loop through an area located deep in the brain called the basal ganglia. The basal ganglia, which includes structures involved in guiding behavior, essentially acts as a crossroads for the emotion circuit to directly influence the movement circuit to control action. To confirm their results, the authors used optogenetics, a technique that uses light to control cells, to investigate the precise function of the neurons in this region. They also studied each neural circuit in isolation from the rest of the brain and confirmed the novel pathway.<\/p>\n

\u201cPsychiatric diseases such as depression and anxiety can alter actions in a dramatic way by either decreasing or increasing movement. This mechanism represents a likely way that emotional states are related to changes in action control in psychiatric diseases,\u201d says Jin.<\/p>\n

Additionally, this unidirectional communication may be relevant for recovery from spinal cord injury. Researchers previously focused on movement centers of the brain because spinal cord injury is a movement issue; however, since these results suggest emotional states can influence brain movement centers, experiencing positive emotions such as motivation may aid patients in the recovery process. Activating emotion centers could likewise stimulate movement centers and facilitate recovery, according to the Salk co-first authors Jared Smith, a postdoctoral fellow, and Hao Li, a senior research associate. Further, these results suggest that emotional states could directly influence sports performance. So, Jin advices, maybe the next time you feel anxious during a game, just calm down and let the action take care of itself.<\/p>\n

Other authors included Xunyi Yan of Salk; Masakazu Igarashi and Jeffery R. Wickens of the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology; Patrice Coulon of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and Aix-Marseille Universit\u00e9; and Tom J.H. Ruigrok of the Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam.<\/p>\n

The work was funded by the JSPS Institutional Program for Young Researcher Overseas Visits; the JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientist; the JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research; the JSPS Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows; the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare, and Sports; the CNRS and Aix-Marseille Universit\u00e9 through UMR 7289; the Human Frontier Science Program; the US National Institutes of Health (R01NS083815, R01AG047669, and K99NS106528 460); the Rose Hills Foundation and the McKnight Memory and Cognitive Disorders Award.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":24116,"template":"","faculty":[93],"disease-research":[124],"class_list":["post-24114","disclosure","type-disclosure","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","faculty-xin-jin","disease-research-neuroscience-and-neurological-disorders"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nHow emotion affects action - Salk Institute for Biological Studies<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/de\/news-release\/how-emotion-affects-action\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How emotion affects action - Salk Institute for Biological Studies\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A cluster of basal ganglia output neurons (green) that convey emotion information to the movement circuit to control action. 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