I am a course coordinator for PSYC5005. I completed my PhD in Psychology investigating predictive learning processes and how these processes regulate our behaviours and decisions. Using animal models, I aimed to understand how associations between the environment, our actions, and their consequences are acquired, updated and expressed.

My research specifically focused on the role of delta-opioid receptors on the membrane of cholinergic interneurons and how D1- and D2- spiny projection neurons interact with these interneurons in the nucleus accumbens shell. In my research I use Pavlovian-instrumental transfer paradigms, in combination with various tools such as chemogenetics and optogenetics to manipulate brain regions.

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