Adolescence is a critical developmental period involving dramatic changes in behaviour and brain anatomy. The prefrontal cortex, the brain region responsible for our most complex cognitive functions, is still establishing connections during this time (Gogtay et al., 2004; Petanjek et al., 2011; Sowell et al., 2004). The trajectory of prefrontal cortex development in adolescence determines the vulnerability or resilience of individuals to adolescent-onset psychiatric diseases (Fuhrmann et al., 2015; Keshavan et al., 2014; Kessler et al., 2007; Kessler et al., 2005; Lee et al., 2014). The age at which this adolescent development occurs therefore represents a critical window during which the brain is particularly susceptible to environmental influences. Traditionally, the onset of adolescence is thought to coincide with puberty (Hollenstein and Lougheed, 2013). In humans, the age of pubertal onset has been advancing throughout the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries, and environmental influences, such as nutrition, can pathologically alter the age of puberty (Wolf and Long, 2016). However, it remains entirely unknown whether the neural and cognitive maturational processes of adolescence can also be plastic. Here, we examine how the timing of certain adolescent developmental processes are programmed, and whether this timing can be plastic in response to a natural environmental cue, in parallel with pubertal plasticity.

Dopamine innervation to the prefrontal cortex increases substantially across adolescence, and psychopathologies of adolescent origin prominently feature dopamine dysfunction. Evidence continues to emerge that protracted dopamine innervation is a key neural process underlying the cognitive and behavioural changes that characterise adolescence (Larsen and Luna, 2018). The mesocorticolimbic dopamine system – which includes the prefrontal cortex – is unique because not only are connections being formed and lost during adolescence, but there is also long-distance displacement of dopamine axons between brain regions. At the onset of adolescence, both mesolimbic and mesocortical dopamine axons innervate the nucleus accumbens in rodents, but the mesocortical axons leave the accumbens and grow toward the prefrontal cortex during adolescence and early adulthood (Hoops et al., 2018; Reynolds et al., 2018; Reynolds et al., 2023). This is the only known case of axons growing from one brain region to another so late during development (Reynolds and Flores, 2021).

The prolonged growth trajectory renders mesocortical dopamine axons particularly vulnerable to disruption. Environmental insults during adolescence (e.g. drug abuse) alter the extent and organisation of dopamine innervation in the prefrontal cortex, leading to behavioural and cognitive changes in mice throughout adulthood (Drzewiecki and Juraska, 2020; Hoops and Flores, 2017; Reynolds and Flores, 2021). These changes often involve cognitive control, a prefrontal function that develops in parallel with dopamine innervation to the cortex in adolescence (Luna et al., 2015). Disruption of dopamine innervation frequently seems to result in ‘immature’ cognitive control persisting through adulthood (Reynolds and Flores, 2021).

Here, we examine the guidance of growing dopamine axons to the prefrontal cortex, and its timing. The guidance cue molecule Netrin-1, upon interacting with its receptor DCC, determines which dopamine axons establish connections in the nucleus accumbens and which ones leave this region to grow to the prefrontal cortex (Hoops and Flores, 2017; Reynolds and Flores, 2021; Reynolds et al., 2023). We hypothesised that the answers to how and when this extraordinary developmental feat is achieved may also lie in the Netrin-1 signalling system.

Part 1: Netrin-1 ‘paves the way’ for dopamine axons in adolescence

To identify the route by which dopamine axons grow from the nucleus accumbens to the medial prefrontal cortex, we visualised dopamine axons in the adult mouse forebrain. We observed that dopamine axons medial to the nucleus accumbens occupy a distinct area and are oriented dorsally toward the cortex (Figure 1A and B). Individual fibres can be seen crossing the boundary of the nucleus accumbens shell and joining these dorsally oriented axons (Figure 1C). We hypothesised that these are the fibres that grow to the prefrontal cortex during adolescence. If this is correct, the number of dopamine axons oriented dorsally toward the medial prefrontal cortex should continue to increase until adulthood. To test this, we used a modified unbiased stereological approach (Kim et al., 2011) where axons are counted only if they crossed the upper and lower bounds of a counting probe. We also measured the average width of the area these axons occupy. We found, in both male and female mice, that the density of dopamine axons does not change between adolescence (21 days of age) and adulthood (75 days of age; Figure 1D). However, the width of the area that dopamine axons occupy does change, increasing between adolescence and adulthood (Figure 1E). These results indicate that the total number of dopamine axons passing through this area increases over adolescence and that dopamine axons grow to the medial prefrontal cortex via this route.

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Next, we focussed on Netrin-1, a secreted protein that acts as a guidance cue to growing axons and is important for dopamine axon targeting in the nucleus accumbens in adolescence (Cuesta et al., 2020). Using unbiased stereology, we quantified the number of Netrin-1-expressing cell bodies along the dopamine axon route, and in an adjacent medial region as a control (Figure 1F and G). We found that in adolescence there are more Netrin-1-positive neurons within the dopamine axon route than adjacent to it. Furthermore, along the axon route the density of Netrin-1-positive cells increases toward the medial prefrontal cortex, forming a dorsoventral gradient (Figure 1H). In adulthood, there remains a higher density of Netrin-1-positive cells along the dopamine route compared to the adjacent region, however the dorsoventral gradient is no longer present (Figure 1I).

To determine if Netrin-1 along the dopamine axon route is necessary for axon navigation, we silenced Netrin-1 expression in the dorsal peduncular cortex, the transition region between the septum and the medial prefrontal cortex, at the onset of adolescence (Figure 1J and K). In adulthood, we quantified the number of dopamine axon terminals in the regions below and above the injection site. Silencing Netrin-1 did not alter dopamine terminal density below the injection, in the lateral septum (Figure 1L). In the infralimbic cortex, which is the first prefrontal cortical region the axons reach after the injection site, terminal density was reduced in the Netrin-1 knockdown group compared to controls (Figure 1L). The knockdown appears to erase the Netrin-1 path to the prefrontal cortex, resulting in dopamine axons failing to reach their correct innervation target.

It remains unknown exactly what types of cells are expressing Netrin-1 along the dopamine axon route, and how this expression is regulated to produce the Netrin-1 gradients that guide the dopamine axons. It also remains unclear where the misrouted axons end up in adulthood. Future experiments aimed at addressing these questions will provide further valuable insight into the nature of the ‘Netrin-1 pathway’. Nonetheless, our results allow us to conclude that Netrin-1 expressing cells ‘pave the way’ for dopamine axons growing to the medial prefrontal cortex.

We next examined how the Netrin-1 pathway may be important for behaviour. Dopamine input to the prefrontal cortex is a key factor in the transition from juvenile to adult behaviours that occurs in adolescence. We hypothesised that cognitive processes involving mesocortical dopamine function would be altered when these axons are misrouted in adolescence. To test our hypothesis, we used the Go/No-Go behavioural paradigm. This test quantifies inhibitory control, which matures in parallel with the innervation of dopamine axons to the prefrontal cortex in adolescence (Casey et al., 2008; Klune et al., 2021; Luna et al., 2015; Paus, 2005; Reynolds and Flores, 2021; Spear, 2000), and it is impaired in adolescent-onset disorders like depression and schizophrenia (Catts et al., 2013; Clementz et al., 2016; McTeague et al., 2016; Millan et al., 2012).

At the onset of adolescence, we injected the Netrin-1 silencing, or a scrambled control virus, bilaterally into the dorsal peduncular cortex; in adulthood we tested the mice in the Go/No-Go task. This paradigm first involves discrimination learning and reaction time training (Appendix 1 - Supplementary Analysis 1), followed by a Go/No-Go test consisting of ‘Go’ trials where mice respond to a cue as previously trained and ‘No-Go’ trials where mice must abstain from responding to the cue (Figure 1M). Correct responses to both trial types are reinforced with a food reward. We quantified the percent of ‘No-Go’ trials where the mice incorrectly responded to the cue (‘Commission Errors’) and the percent of ‘Go’ trials where the mice correctly responded (‘Rewards’ or ‘Hits’; Appendix 1 - Supplementary Analysis 2). The ability of mice to respond correctly overall to both trial types is quantified as the Correct Response Rate (Appendix 1 - Supplementary Analysis 3; Reynolds et al., 2018; Vassilev et al., 2021; Reynolds et al., 2023).

Mice injected with the Netrin-1 silencing virus differed from controls in their performance during ‘No-Go’ trials. As the mice learn to withhold their responses over the course of the test, the number of commission errors they made in No-Go trials decreased in a sigmoidal fashion (Figure 1N). The upper and lower asymptotes of the sigmoidal curve quantify the number of commission errors committed during early and late test days, respectively, while the inflection point (ED50) indicates when mice start improving their ability to inhibit their behaviour. At the start of the Go/No part of the task, the Netrin-1 silencing group make slightly fewer commission errors (Figure 1O) than control groups, although both groups begin to improve in the No-Go task at around the same time (Figure 1P). However, the Netrin-1 silencing group achieved a substantially higher level of behavioural inhibition, quantified as a lower percentage of commission errors in the last test days (Figure 1Q), indicating an improved ability to withhold their behaviour on cue. These behavioural results demonstrate that the maturation of action impulsivity is sensitive to the organisation of the ventro-dorsal Netrin-1 path that guides mesocortical dopamine axon growth. Deviations in this route associate with striking changes in the cognitive development that is characteristic of adolescence. In this case, the deviation leads to improved action impulsivity, suggesting that these dopamine axons may end up ectopically innervating a forebrain region other than the medial prefrontal cortex, enhancing cognitive control.

Part 2: UNC5C expression coincides with the onset of adolescence

When axons leave the nucleus accumbens during adolescence, they follow a Netrin-1 ‘path’ through intermediate brain regions to reach their intended innervation target. However, only a small subset of the dopamine axons that have reached the nucleus accumbens by early adolescence leave; the vast majority stay and form connections in the accumbens throughout life (Reynolds et al., 2018). The ‘decision-making’ process of whether to ‘stay’ (in the accumbens) or ‘go’ (to the cortex via the Netrin-1 path) happens during a narrow developmental window at the onset of adolescence (Reynolds et al., 2019). It remains unknown how the timing of this process is determined.

In adolescence, dopamine neurons begin to express the repulsive Netrin-1 receptor UNC5C, particularly when mesolimbic and mesocortical dopamine projections segregate in the nucleus accumbens (Manitt et al., 2010; Reynolds et al., 2018). In contrast, dopamine axons in the prefrontal cortex do not express UNC5c, except in very rare cases (Appendix 1 - Supplementary Analysis 4). In adult male mice with Unc5c haploinsufficiency, there appears to be ectopic growth of mesolimbic dopamine axons to the prefrontal cortex (Auger et al., 2013). This miswiring is associated with alterations in prefrontal cortex-dependent behaviours (Auger et al., 2013).

Using immunohistochemistry, we assessed the expression of UNC5C on nucleus accumbens dopamine axons across development. In male mice, we found little expression of UNC5C on dopamine axons at the onset of adolescence (Figure 2A), while we did find UNC5C expression on dopamine axons in adults (Figure 2B). Remarkably, when we assessed this in females, we found dopamine axons already expressing UNC5C in the nucleus accumbens at the onset of adolescence (Figure 2D), similar to adult females (Figure 2E), indicating that the onset of UNC5C expression on dopamine axons in the nucleus accumbens is sexually dimorphic, with an earlier emergence in females. We examined the nucleus accumbens in pre-adolescent female mice and indeed found little UNC5C expression on dopamine axons (Figure 2C). The onset of UNC5C expression in mesocorticolimbic dopamine axons is therefore peri-adolescent but occurs earlier in females than in males, consistent with the earlier emergence of adolescence in female rodents and the earlier onset of adolescence and puberty in humans (Wolf and Long, 2016). Differences in the precise timing of dopamine innervation to the PFC in adolescence have been suggested by findings reported in male and female rats (Willing et al., 2017).

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Part 3: Environmental control of the timing of adolescence

We hypothesise that at the emergence of adolescence, UNC5C expression by dopamine axons in the nucleus accumbens signals the initiation of the growth of dopamine axons to the prefrontal cortex. We therefore examined whether the developmental timings of UNC5C expression and dopamine innervation of the prefrontal cortex are similarly affected by an environmental cue known to delay pubertal development in seasonal species.

Siberian hamsters (Phodopus sungorus) regulate many aspects of their behaviour and physiology to meet the changing environmental demands of seasonality (Paul et al., 2008; Stevenson et al., 2017). In winter, they increase the thickness of their fur, exchange their brown summer coats for white winter ones, and undergo a daily torpor to conserve energy (Scherbarth and Steinlechner, 2010). In addition, adults suppress reproduction and juveniles delay puberty (Pévet, 1988; Yellon and Goldman, 1984), including developmental changes in gonadotropin releasing hormone neurons in the hypothalamus (Buchanan and Yellon, 1991; Heywood and Yellon, 1997). Reproductive organ development is delayed as part of pubertal postponement (Darrow et al., 1980; Ebling, 1994; Timonin et al., 2006). This seasonal plasticity is regulated by long or short periods of daylight (Heldmaier and Steinlechner, 1981; Hoffmann, 1978) and raises the possibility that aspects of adolescent development are sensitive to these environmental cues (Paul et al., 2018; Walker et al., 2017). To our knowledge, adaptive variation in the timing of adolescent neural development has never been recorded in any animal.

Here, we tested whether daylength regulates when dopamine axons grow to the cortex, and whether the timing of UNC5C expression in the nucleus accumbens and adolescent changes in behaviour are similarly affected.

The seasonality of adolescence

Male hamsters were examined at three ages: 15 days of age (±1), 80 days of age (±10), and 215 days of age (±20). We compared the density of the dopamine innervation to the medial prefrontal cortex in male hamsters housed under lighting conditions that replicate summer daylengths (long days, short nights) or winter daylengths (short days, long nights) (Figure 3A and B). We will refer to these two groups as ‘summer hamsters’ and ‘winter hamsters’ to emphasise the natural stimulus we are replicating in the laboratory environment. We confirmed that puberty is delayed in male winter hamsters compared to summer hamsters in the present experiment by measuring their gonadal weights across ages (Appendix 1 - Supplementary Analysis 5).

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In male summer hamsters, dopamine input density to the prefrontal cortex increases during adolescence, after 15 days of age and before 80 days of age (Figure 3C), consistent with dopamine axon growth in mice (Manitt et al., 2013; Manitt et al., 2011; Reynolds et al., 2018). Prefrontal cortex dopamine innervation in summer hamsters continues to increase after 80 days of age (Figure 3C).

In male winter hamsters, dopamine innervation to the prefrontal cortex is delayed until after 80 days, which coincides with their delayed pubertal onset (Figure 3D, Appendix 1 - Supplementary Analysis 5). This demonstrates that an environmental cue can determine the timing of adolescent brain development.

We then examined UNC5C expression by dopamine axons in the nucleus accumbens in male summer and winter hamsters across age classes. UNC5C expression was apparent only after the onset of adolescence in summer hamsters (Figure 3E, F, and G), as observed in male mice. However, UNC5C expression was delayed in male winter hamsters – this group did not show UNC5C expression in dopamine axons in the nucleus accumbens until after 80 days of age (Figure 3H, I, and J). This aligns with the delayed timing of mesocortical dopamine axon growth and pubertal onset in male winter hamsters and demonstrates that the emergence of UNC5C is a marker of adolescent onset in male mice.

A behavioural characteristic of adolescence is increased willingness to enter a novel environment, a behaviour that assumes an increased amount of risk (Arrant et al., 2013; Lynn and Brown, 2009). To measure this, we used the light/dark test (Bourin and Hascoët, 2003). Time spent in the light compartment is dopamine-dependent (Bahi and Dreyer, 2019; Gao and Cutler, 1993) and peaks in adolescence (Arrant et al., 2013). We will refer to this behaviour as ‘risk taking’. We assessed the developmental profile of risk taking in the light/dark box test in summer and winter hamsters across adolescence. In male summer hamsters, the risk taking increases across adolescence, peaks around 50 days, then subsequently declines (Figure 3K). However, the adolescent increase in risk taking is protracted in winter hamsters: across the age range examined we observe a gradual, consistent increase in risk taking rather than a peak and decline.

We next assessed a cohort of 215-day-old hamsters, for which both summer and winter male hamsters have undergone puberty and exhibit high levels of dopamine innervation of the prefrontal cortex (Figure 3C, D, G, and J, Appendix 1 - Supplementary Analysis 5). In these hamsters, we find no difference in risk taking between the male summer and winter groups (Figure 3L), demonstrating that, after 80 days, risk taking begins to decline in male winter hamsters and that by 215 days it has declined to the same level as in summer hamsters. Male hamsters raised under summer-mimicking long days and winter-mimicking short days both ultimately make the transition to the adult behavioural phenotype.

We also examined a second behaviour, novel object investigation. We note similar, but not identical, developmental patterns in behaviour. Both male summer and winter hamsters show peaks in novel object exploration around 50 days old, however the developmental shifts in behaviour around that peak are significantly more substantial in the summer males compared to the winter males (Appendix 1 - Supplementary Analysis 8). In 215-day-old hamsters, there is no difference in novel object exploration between summer and winter males (Appendix 1 - Supplementary Analysis 9).

An extraordinary case of decoupling puberty and adolescence

In parallel with males, we conducted equivalent experiments in female hamsters (Figure 4A and B). Under a summer-mimicking daylength, dopamine innervation to the medial prefrontal cortex increases between 15 and 80 days of age, similar to male summer hamsters (Figure 4C). There is no further increase in innervation density after 80 days of age, consistent with earlier adolescent development in females observed in other rodent species (Juraska and Willing, 2017; Kopec et al., 2018; Reynolds and Flores, 2021; Spear, 2000; Westbrook et al., 2018). We confirmed that puberty is delayed in female winter hamsters compared to summer hamsters by measuring their uterine weights (Appendix 1 - Supplementary Analysis 6) and vaginal opening (Appendix 1 - Supplementary Analysis 7) across ages.

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When housed under a winter-mimicking daylength, dopamine input density in the prefrontal cortex of female hamsters is not delayed as in males, but rather reaches adult levels prior to 15 days of age (Figure 4D). We replicated this unexpected finding in a separate, independent cohort of female winter hamsters (Figure 4E). This surprising result shows an intervention that accelerates adolescent cortical development.

We then measured dopamine axon density in female winter hamsters at two earlier ages: 10 and 15 days of age. Dopamine innervation increases during this period (Figure 4F), well before normal adolescence and long before pubertal development. This is an extraordinary phenomenon: a key marker of adolescent neurodevelopment is accelerated and dissociated from puberty in female hamsters raised under winter-mimicking short days (Appendix 1 - Supplementary Analyses 6,7).

The early increase in prefrontal cortex dopamine terminals in winter females is followed by a dramatic reduction between 80 and 215 days of age (Figure 4D and E). This overlaps with the delayed timing of puberty in these females (Butler et al., 2007; Appendix 1 - Supplementary Analyses 6,7). Synaptic pruning in the cortex is a well-known component of adolescent neural development across species (Huttenlocher, 1984; Koss et al., 2014; Petanjek et al., 2011). Under normal conditions, the effect of pruning on dopamine synapses is likely masked by the growth of new dopamine axons to the prefrontal cortex (Manitt et al., 2013; Manitt et al., 2011; Reynolds et al., 2018). In the case of female winter hamsters, we hypothesise that the growth of dopamine axons to the prefrontal cortex occurs early while synaptic pruning, including dopamine synapses, appears to occur later. This leads to a remarkable dissociation between two cortical developmental processes that are normally simultaneous, the behavioural implications of which are unclear.

If the developmental onset of UNC5C expression determines the timing of dopamine innervation of the prefrontal cortex, then onset of UNC5C expression should also be advanced in female winter hamsters. Hence, we examined UNC5C expression at the same ages as we examined dopamine axon growth in female hamsters. At 10 and 15 days of age, UNC5C expression is present only in the winter hamsters (Figure 4G, H, K, and L), but at 80 and 215 days of age, UNC5C expression is apparent in both summer and winter hamsters (Figure 4I, J, M, and N).

We used the light/dark box test to examine potential risk-taking implications of the extraordinary developmental trajectory we observed in the prefrontal cortex of female hamsters. In female summer and winter hamsters, the adolescent increase and peak in risk taking occurs between the ages of 15 and 80 days, as it does in summer daylength males (Figure 4O). However, contrary to what we would expect, the peak in winter females is delayed compared to summer females. A delayed peak is also observed for winter females in novel object investigation (Appendix 1 - Supplementary Analysis 10). When we assessed an independent cohort of 215-day-old female hamsters, we found no difference in risk taking (Figure 4P) or novel object investigation (Appendix 1 - Supplementary Analysis 11) between groups, indicating that, like males, female summer and winter hamsters both eventually reach the same adult level of risk taking.

In both sexes, hamsters housed under a summer-mimicking daylength showed an adolescent peak in risk taking at an age that we would predict based on results from other rodents (Arrant et al., 2013; Pietropaolo et al., 2004; Tanaka, 2015). When raised under a winter-mimicking daylength, hamsters of either sex show a protracted peak in risk taking. In males, it is delayed beyond 80 days of age, but the delay is substantially less in females. This is a counterintuitive finding considering that dopamine development in winter females appears to be accelerated. Our interpretation of this finding is that the timing of the risk-taking peak in females may reflect a balance between different adolescent developmental processes. The fact that dopamine axon growth is accelerated does not imply that all adolescent maturational processes are accelerated. Some may be delayed, e.g., those that induce axon pruning in the cortex. The timing of the risk-taking peak in winter female hamsters may therefore reflect the amalgamation of developmental processes that are advanced with those that are delayed – producing a behavioural effect that is timed somewhere in the middle. Disentangling the effects of different developmental processes on behaviour will require further experiments in hamsters, including the direct manipulation of dopamine activity in the nucleus accumbens and prefrontal cortex.

All data and code use in these analyses are available through the Open Science Framework.

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1. Daniel Hoops

   1. Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montréal, Canada
   2. Douglas Mental Health University Institute, Montréal, Canada

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2. Robert Kyne

   Neuroscience Program, University at Buffalo, SUNY, United States

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   1. Douglas Mental Health University Institute, Montréal, Canada
   2. Integrated Program in Neuroscience, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

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   1. Douglas Mental Health University Institute, Montréal, Canada
   2. Integrated Program in Neuroscience, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

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   1. Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montréal, Canada
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   1. Douglas Mental Health University Institute, Montréal, Canada
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8. Taylor Orsini

   1. Douglas Mental Health University Institute, Montréal, Canada
   2. Integrated Program in Neuroscience, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

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9. Anais Durand

   1. Douglas Mental Health University Institute, Montréal, Canada
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    1. Douglas Mental Health University Institute, Montréal, Canada
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17. Cecilia Flores

    1. Department of Psychiatry, McGill University, Montréal, Canada
    2. Douglas Mental Health University Institute, Montréal, Canada
    3. Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University, Montréal, Canada
    4. Ludmer Centre for Neuroinformatics & Mental Health, McGill University, Montréal, Canada

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