title: Location is everything: neurons born during fluoxetine treatment accumulate in regions that do not support spatial learning.
abstract: It is well known that antidepressants both improve mood and increase the rate at which the dentate gyrus (DG) generates new neurons. In addition to the implications of neurogenesis for mood regulation, the production and survival of granule cells has also been implicated in learning and memory. Despite this evidence, the results of studies on the effect of antidepressants on memory have been mixed. A critical piece of data that may be missing from previous studies, however, is insight into (a) the location that newborn neurons migrate to following fluoxetine administration and (b) their ability to express normal patterns of activity-related genes. Here we demonstrate a finding that may resolve the discrepancy in the effects fluoxetine-induced neurogenesis on mood and memory: after 5 weeks delay, the net additional neurons generated in animals given the antidepressant fluoxetine during treatment are functionally normal, but preferentially accumulate (due to changes in migration and/or survival) in an area of the DG that is not recruited by spatial memory tasks.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Psychology, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON N2L 3C5, Canada.
authors.forename: Elham
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Satvat
authors.forename: Ali
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gheidi
authors.forename: Sarah
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Voll
authors.forename: Irina V
authors.initials: IV
authors.lastname: Odintsova
authors.forename: Diano F
authors.initials: DF
authors.lastname: Marrone
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002465:Cell Movement / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D002470:Cell Survival / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D005473:Fluoxetine / Q000494:pharmacology*; D006624:Hippocampus / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000502:physiology; D018782:Maze Learning / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000502:physiology; D055495:Neurogenesis / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000502:physiology; D009474:Neurons / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000502:physiology; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D017367:Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors / Q000494:pharmacology*
chemical_list: D005473:Fluoxetine; D017367:Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors