title: Concentration- and age-dependent effects of chronic caffeine on contextual fear conditioning in C57BL/6J mice.
abstract: Chronic caffeine exerts negligible effects on learning and memory in normal adults, but it is unknown whether this is also true for children and adolescents. The hippocampus, a brain region important for learning and memory, undergoes extensive structural and functional modifications during pre-adolescence and adolescence. As a result, chronic caffeine may have differential effects on hippocampus-dependent learning in pre-adolescents and adolescents compared with adults. Here, we characterized the effects of chronic caffeine and withdrawal from chronic caffeine on hippocampus-dependent (contextual) and hippocampus-independent (cued) fear conditioning in pre-adolescent, adolescent, and adult mice. The results indicate that chronic exposure to caffeine during pre-adolescence and adolescence enhances or impairs contextual conditioning depending on concentration, yet has no effect on cued conditioning. In contrast, withdrawal from chronic caffeine impairs contextual conditioning in pre-adolescent mice only. No changes in learning were seen for adult mice for either the chronic caffeine or withdrawal conditions. These findings support the hypothesis that chronic exposure to caffeine during pre-adolescence and adolescence can alter learning and memory and as changes were only seen in hippocampus-dependent learning, which suggests that the developing hippocampus may be sensitive to the effects of caffeine.
authors.affiliation: Temple University, Department of Psychology, Neuroscience Program Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA.
authors.forename: Rachel L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Poole
authors.affiliation: Temple University, Department of Psychology, Neuroscience Program Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Braak
authors.affiliation: Temple University, Department of Psychology, Neuroscience Program Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA. Electronic address: tgould@temple.edu.
authors.forename: Thomas J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Gould
mesh_terms: D000375:Aging / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000502:physiology / Q000523:psychology; D000818:Animals; D001007:Anxiety / Q000503:physiopathology; D002110:Caffeine / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D000697:Central Nervous System Stimulants / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D003213:Conditioning, Psychological / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000502:physiology; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D004597:Electroshock; D005106:Exploratory Behavior / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D005239:Fear / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000502:physiology; D046352:Freezing Reaction, Cataleptic / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D006624:Hippocampus / Q000187:drug effects / Q000254:growth & development; D008297:Male; D018782:Maze Learning / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D013375:Substance Withdrawal Syndrome / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology
chemical_list: D000697:Central Nervous System Stimulants; D002110:Caffeine
keywords: Adenosine; Caffeine; Cognition; Development; Learning; Memory
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