Abstract
Whether projections from the medial septum regulate the function of the CA1 hippocampus in episodic memory retrieval is not known. Here we show that septal GABAergic inputs to CA1 promote contextual fear memory, blocking the activation of parvalbumin-rich interneurons to facilitate Erk/MAP-kinase signaling in pyramidal cells during retrieval. Thus, suppression of feed-forward inhibition onto CA1 by septal GABAergic neurons gates contextual fear behavior.
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