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Cerebral Cortex, Vol. 12, No. 9, 975-982, September 2002
© 2002 Oxford University Press

Neonatal Hippocampal Damage Alters Electrophysiological Properties of Prefrontal Cortical Neurons in Adult Rats

Patricio O’Donnell, Barbara L. Lewis, Daniel R. Weinberger1 and Barbara K. Lipska1

Center for Neuropharmacology and Neuroscience, Albany Medical College, Albany, NY 12208 and , 1 NIMH, Clinical Brain Disorders Branch, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA

Address correspondence to Patricio O’Donnell, Albany Medical College (MC-136), Center for Neuropharmacology and Neuroscience, 47 New Scotland Ave, Albany, NY 12208, USA. Email: odonnep{at}mail.amc.edu.

A neonatal excitotoxic lesion of the ventral hippocampus in the rat produces a variety of behavioral and cellular changes that remain latent until early adulthood. These delayed effects resemble many phenomena observed in schizophrenia, a neuropsychiatric disorder of early adult onset in which abnormal development of the hippo-campus and prefrontal cortex has been postulated. Here we investigated the impact of this neonatal hippocampal lesion on the response of medial prefrontal cortical pyramidal neurons to specific afferent stimulation. Neonatal hippocampal damage altered the physiological responses of these neurons to electrical stimulation of midbrain dopaminergic–GABAergic projections, but not thalamic glutamatergic afferents. The lesion resulted in excessive firing of pyramidal neurons in response to mesocortical stimulation and this effect was not observed before adulthood or after similar hippocampal damage produced in adult rats. These data show that neonatal damage to the ventral hippocampus changes, in a developmentally specific manner, the nature of prefrontal cortical neuron responses to activation of projections from the ventral tegmental area, an effect that may explain the adverse impact of stress in schizophrenia.


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