It therefore remains unknown whether SN neurons differentiate familiar from novel stimuli and whether such activation is related to memory encoding success. Although SN dopaminergic neurons respond to novel stimuli during conditioning, no recordings exist of SN neurons during declarative memory tasks. In contrast, little is known about the role of SN/VTA in the acquisition of declarative memories. In addition, in humans, SN neurons also respond to infrequent sounds in an odd-ball paradigm and encode decision outcomes. Studying how SN/VTA dopaminergic neurons signal reward and reward expectation errors has revealed a mechanistic understanding of the role of the SN/VTA in classical conditioning and reinforcement learning. Although these and other observations suggest a critical role for dopamine released by SN/VTA neurons in declarative memory, the underlying mechanisms that regulate this response are poorly understood. This enhanced memory for novel environments, however, is lost when hippocampal dopamine receptors are blocked. When animals are exposed to new environments, dopamine levels rise and facilitate long-term potentiation in the hippocampus. The strength of hippocampal declarative memories is modulated by dopamine release: both the extent of SN/VTA activation and levels of dopamine within the hippocampus modulate the success of encoding. The strength and duration of synaptic plasticity depends on extracellular dopa-mine levels, a neuromodulator that is released in the hippocampus from axonal terminals projecting from dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra (SN) and ventral tegmental area (VTA). The formation of declarative memories relies on the ability of hippocampal synapses to rapidly change their strength through long-term potentiation and depression. These data reveal that dopaminergic neurons in the human SN are modulated by memory signals and demonstrate a progression of information flow in the hippocampal-basal ganglia-frontal cortex loop for memory encoding. SN neurons phase locked to frontal cortical theta-frequency oscillations, and the extent of this coordination predicted successful memory formation. The responses of memory-selective neurons appeared 527 ms after stimulus onset, changed after a single trial, and were indicative of recognition accuracy. Extracellular waveform shape and anatomical location indicated that these memory-selective neurons were putatively dopaminergic. We found that 25% of SN neurons were modulated by stimulus novelty. We recorded individual substantia nigra (SN) neurons and cortical field potentials in human patients performing a recognition memory task. This process depends on hippocampal novelty signals, but it remains unknown how midbrain dopaminergic neurons are modulated by declarative-memory-based information.
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