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Sexual experience restores age-related decline in adult neurogenesis and hippocampal function
Abstract
Aging
is associated with compromised hippocampal function and reduced adult
neurogenesis in the dentate gyrus. As new neurons have been linked to
hippocampal functions, such as cognition, age-related decline in new
neuron formation may contribute to impaired hippocampal function. We
investigated whether a rewarding experience known to stimulate
neurogenesis in young adult rats, namely sexual experience, would
restore new neuron production and hippocampal function in middle-aged
rats. Sexual experience enhanced the number of newly generated neurons
in the dentate gyrus with both single and repeated exposures in
middle-aged rats. Following continuous long-term exposure to sexual
experience, cognitive function was improved. However, when a prolonged
withdrawal period was introduced between the final mating experience and
behavioral testing, the improvements in cognitive function were lost
despite the presence of more new neurons. Taken together, these results
suggest that repeated sexual experience can stimulate adult neurogenesis
and restore cognitive function in the middle-aged rat as long as the
experience persists throughout the testing period. The extent to which
changes in adult neurogenesis underlie those in cognition remain
unknown.
Copyright © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
KEYWORDS:
dentate gyrus; middle age; object recognition; sexual experience- PMID:
- 23460298
- DOI:
- 10.1002/hipo.22090
- [Indexed for MEDLINE]
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