Sensory gating functions of the auditory thalamus: Adaptation and modulations 
through noise-exposure and high-frequency stimulation in rats

Zare, Aryo; van Zwieten, Gusta; Kotz, Sonja A.; Temel, Yasin; Almasabi, Faris; Schultz, Benjamin G.; Schwartze, Michael; Janssen, Marcus L.F.

doi:10.1016/j.bbr.2023.114498

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Sensory gating functions of the auditory thalamus: Adaptation and modulations through noise-exposure and high-frequency stimulation in rats

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Kotz, Sonja A.
Department of Neuropsychology and Psychopharmacology, Maastricht University, the Netherlands;
Department Neuropsychology, MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Max Planck Society;

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Zare, A., van Zwieten, G., Kotz, S. A., Temel, Y., Almasabi, F., Schultz, B. G., et al. (2023). Sensory gating functions of the auditory thalamus: Adaptation and modulations through noise-exposure and high-frequency stimulation in rats. Behavioural Brain Research, 450: 114498. doi:10.1016/j.bbr.2023.114498.

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The medial geniculate body (MGB) of the thalamus is an obligatory relay for auditory processing. A breakdown of adaptive filtering and sensory gating at this level may lead to multiple auditory dysfunctions, while high-frequency stimulation (HFS) of the MGB might mitigate aberrant sensory gating. To further investigate the sensory gating functions of the MGB, this study (i) recorded electrophysiological evoked potentials in response to continuous auditory stimulation, and (ii) assessed the effect of MGB HFS on these responses in noise-exposed and control animals. Pure-tone sequences were presented to assess differential sensory gating functions associated with stimulus pitch, grouping (pairing), and temporal regularity. Evoked potentials were recorded from the MGB and acquired before and after HFS (100 Hz). All animals (unexposed and noise-exposed, pre- and post-HFS) showed gating for pitch and grouping. Unexposed animals also showed gating for temporal regularity not found in noise-exposed animals. Moreover, only noise-exposed animals showed restoration comparable to the typical EP amplitude suppression pattern following MGB HFS. The current findings confirm adaptive thalamic sensory gating based on different sound characteristics and provide evidence that temporal regularity affects MGB auditory signaling.