By Professor Gavan Patrick McNally

Journal articles

De Biasi M; McNally G, 2025, 'Editorial overview: Addiction', Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 90, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.conb.2024.102933

Mitchell CS; Campbell EJ; Fisher SD; Stanton LM; Burton NJ; Pearl AJ; McNally GP; Bains JS; Füzesi T; Graham BA; Manning EE; Dayas CV, 2024, 'Optogenetic recruitment of hypothalamic corticotrophin-releasing-hormone (CRH) neurons reduces motivational drive', Translational Psychiatry, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41398-023-02710-0

Rafiei N; Mitchell CS; Tedesco CR; Chen J; Choi EA; Roughley S; Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P; Kumar NN; McNally GP; Herzog H; Begg DP, 2024, 'Chemogenetic activation ofarcuate nucleus NPY and NPY/AgRP neurons increases feeding behaviour in mice', Neuropeptides, 107, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.npep.2024.102454

Yau JOY; Li A; Abdallah L; Lisowksi L; McNally GP, 2024, 'State- and Circuit-Dependent Opponent Processing of Fear', Journal of Neuroscience, 44, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0857-24.2024

McDougall SJ; Ong ZY; Heller R; Horton A; Thek KK; Choi EA; McNally GP; Lawrence AJ, 2024, 'Viscerosensory signalling to the nucleus accumbens via the solitary tract nucleus', Journal of Neurochemistry, 168, pp. 3116 - 3131, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jnc.16180

Mcnally GP; Jean-Richard-Dit-Bressel P, 2024, 'A Cognitive Pathway to Persistent, Maladaptive Choice', European Addiction Research, 30, pp. 233 - 242, http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000538103

Zayra Millan E; McNally GP, 2024, 'Reprioritizing motivations in addiction', Science, 384, pp. 271, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.ado9989

Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P; Gaetani K; Zeng L; Weidemann G; McNally GP, 2024, 'Translational Research in Punishment Learning', Behavioral Neuroscience, 138, pp. 143 - 151, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/bne0000587

Dali G; Logge W; Riordan B; Conner TS; Manning V; Millan EZ; McNally GP; Haber PS; Morley KC, 2023, 'The role of impulsivity in the relationship between affect and alcohol consumption in young adults', Alcohol: Clinical and Experimental Research, 47, pp. 2161 - 2168, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/acer.15192

Yau JOY; McNally GP, 2023, 'The Rescorla-Wagner model, prediction error, and fear learning', Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 203, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2023.107799

McNally GP; Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P; Millan EZ; Lawrence AJ, 2023, 'Pathways to the persistence of drug use despite its adverse consequences', Molecular Psychiatry, 28, pp. 2228 - 2237, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41380-023-02040-z

Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P; Lee JC; Liew SX; Weidemann G; Lovibond PF; McNally GP, 2023, 'A cognitive pathway to punishment insensitivity', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 120, pp. e2221634120, http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2221634120

Murphy S; Collis Glynn M; Dixon TN; Grill HJ; McNally GP; Ong ZY, 2023, 'Nucleus of the solitary tract A2 neurons control feeding behaviors via projections to the paraventricular hypothalamus', Neuropsychopharmacology, 48, pp. 351 - 361, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41386-022-01448-5

Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P; McNally GP, 2023, 'Reply to Jarvis and Chong: Understanding punishment insensitivity phenotypes using computational modelling', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 120, http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2316107120

Maddern XJ; Walker LC; Campbell EJ; Arunogiri S; Haber PS; Morley K; Manning V; Millan EZ; McNally GP; Lubman DI; Lawrence AJ, 2022, 'Can we enhance the clinical efficacy of cognitive and psychological approaches to treat substance use disorders through understanding their neurobiological mechanisms?', Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 142, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2022.104899

Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P; Tran J; Didachos A; McNally GP, 2022, 'Instrumental aversion coding in the basolateral amygdala and its reversion by a benzodiazepine', Neuropsychopharmacology, 47, pp. 1199 - 1209, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41386-021-01176-2

Choi EA; Husić M; Millan EZ; Gilchrist S; Power JM; dit Bressel PJR; McNally GP; Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P, 2022, 'A Corticothalamic Circuit Trades off Speed for Safety during Decision-Making under Motivational Conflict', Journal of Neuroscience, 42, pp. 3473 - 3483, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0088-22.2022

Yau JOY; McNally GP, 2022, 'The Activity of Ventral Tegmental Area Dopamine Neurons During Shock Omission Predicts Safety Learning', Behavioral Neuroscience, 136, pp. 276 - 284, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/bne0000506

Jean Richard dit Bressel P; McNally GP, 2022, 'Punishment and compulsion: more than meets the eye', Neuropsychopharmacology, 47, pp. 425 - 426, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41386-021-01182-4

Yau JOY; Chaichim C; Power JM; McNally GP, 2021, 'The Roles of Basolateral Amygdala Parvalbumin Neurons in Fear Learning', The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 41, pp. 9223 - 9234, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2461-20.2021

James MH; McNally GP; Li X, 2021, 'Editorial: Role of the Thalamus in Motivated Behavior', Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2021.720592

Liu Y; McNally GP, 2021, 'Dopamine and relapse to drug seeking', Journal of Neurochemistry, 157, pp. 1572 - 1584, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jnc.15309

McNally GP, 2021, 'Motivational competition and the paraventricular thalamus', Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 125, pp. 193 - 207, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2021.02.021

Jean-Richard-dit-bressel P; Lee JC; Liew SX; Weidemann G; Lovibond PF; McNally GP, 2021, 'Punishment insensitivity in humans is due to failures in instrumental contingency learning', eLife, 10, pp. e69594, http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.69594

Bouton ME; Maren S; McNally GP, 2021, 'Behavioral and neurobiological mechanisms of pavlovian and instrumental extinction learning', Physiological Reviews, 101, pp. 611 - 681, http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/physrev.00016.2020

Peng CY; Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P; Gilchrist S; Power JM; McNally GP, 2021, 'Phasic inhibition of dopamine neurons is an instrumental punisher.', Behavioral Neuroscience, 135, pp. 415 - 425, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/bne0000445

Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P; Lee J; Liew SX; Weidemann G; Lovibond P; McNally G, 2021, 'Punishment insensitivity in humans is due to failures in instrumental contingency learning', , http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2021.04.23.441174

Dixon TN; McNally GP; Ong ZY, 2020, 'Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Signaling in the Ventral Tegmental Area Reduces Alcohol Self-Administration in Male Rats', Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 44, pp. 2118 - 2129, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/acer.14437

Prasad AA; McNally GP, 2020, 'The ventral pallidum and relapse in alcohol seeking', British Journal of Pharmacology, 177, pp. 3855 - 3864, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bph.15160

Liu Y; Jean-Richard-Dit-Bressel P; Yau JOY; Willing A; Prasad AA; Power JM; Killcross S; Clifford CWG; McNally GP, 2020, 'The mesolimbic dopamine activity signatures of relapse to alcohol-seeking', Journal of Neuroscience, 40, pp. 6409 - 6427, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.072420.2020

Ong ZY; McNally GP, 2020, 'CART in energy balance and drug addiction: Current insights and mechanisms', Brain Research, 1740, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2020.146852

Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P; Clifford CWG; McNally GP, 2020, 'Analyzing Event-Related Transients: Confidence Intervals, Permutation Tests, and Consecutive Thresholds', Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, 13, pp. 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnmol.2020.00014

Prasad AA; Xie C; Chaichim C; Nguyen JH; McClusky HE; Killcross S; Power JM; McNally GP, 2020, 'Complementary roles for ventral pallidum cell types and their projections in relapse', Journal of Neuroscience, 40, pp. 880 - 893, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0262-19.2019

Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P; Ma C; Bradfield L; Killcross S; McNally G, 2020, 'Punishment insensitivity emerges from impaired contingency detection, not aversion insensitivity or reward dominance', eLife, http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.52765

Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P; Ma C; Bradfield LA; Killcross S; McNally GP, 2019, 'Punishment insensitivity emerges from impaired contingency detection, not aversion insensitivity or reward dominance', eLife, 8, pp. e52765, http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.52765

Gibson GD; Millan EZ; McNally GP, 2019, 'The nucleus accumbens shell in reinstatement and extinction of drug seeking', European Journal of Neuroscience, 50, pp. 2014 - 2022, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ejn.14084

Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P; McNally GP, 2019, 'Visualizing Infralimbic Control over Incubation of Cocaine Craving', Neuron, 103, pp. 1 - 3, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2019.06.008

Choi EA; Jean-Richard-Dit-Bressel P; Clifford CWG; McNally GP, 2019, 'Paraventricular thalamus controls behavior during motivational conflict', Journal of Neuroscience, 39, pp. 4945 - 4958, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2480-18.2019

Yau JOY; McNally GP, 2019, 'Rules for aversive learning and decision-making', Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 26, pp. 1 - 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2018.08.006

Peng C; Jean-Richard Dit Bressel P; Mcnally G, 2019, 'A role of midbrain dopamine neurons in negative punishment', IBRO Reports, 6, pp. S193 - S193, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ibror.2019.07.605

Choi EA; Jean-Richard-Dit-Bressel P; Clifford C; Mcnally G, 2019, 'Paraventricular thalamus controls behavior during motivational conflict', IBRO Reports, 6, pp. S68 - S68, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ibror.2019.07.224

Yau J; Mcnally G, 2019, 'The role of basolateral amygdala parvalbumin neurons in the blocking of Pavlovian fear', IBRO Reports, 6, pp. S208 - S208, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ibror.2019.07.648

Mcnally G, 2019, 'Ventral striatopallidal circuits that promote or prevent reward seeking', IBRO Reports, 6, pp. S36 - S36, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ibror.2019.07.106

Khoo SYS; Clemens KJ; McNally GP, 2018, 'Palatable food self-administration and reinstatement are not affected by dual orexin receptor antagonism', Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry, 87, pp. 147 - 157, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pnpbp.2017.06.028

Yau JOY; McNally GP, 2018, 'Brain mechanisms controlling pavlovian fear conditioning', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 44, pp. 341 - 357, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xan0000181

Baker KD; McNally GP; Richardson R, 2018, 'D-Cycloserine facilitates fear extinction in adolescent rats and differentially affects medial and lateral prefrontal cortex activation', Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry, 86, pp. 262 - 269, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pnpbp.2018.06.007

Jean-Richard-Dit-Bressel P; Killcross S; McNally GP, 2018, 'Behavioral and neurobiological mechanisms of punishment: Implications for psychiatric disorders', Neuropsychopharmacology, 43, pp. 1639 - 1650, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41386-018-0047-3

Gibson GD; Prasad AA; Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P; Yau JOY; Millan EZ; Liu Y; Campbell EJ; Lim J; Marchant NJ; Power JM; Killcross S; Lawrence AJ; McNally GP, 2018, 'Distinct Accumbens Shell Output Pathways Promote versus Prevent Relapse to Alcohol Seeking', Neuron, 98, pp. 512 - 520.e6, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2018.03.033

Khoo SY; Lay BPP; Joya J; McNally GP, 2018, 'Local anaesthetic refinement of pentobarbital euthanasia reduces abdominal writhing without affecting immunohistochemical endpoints in rats', Laboratory Animals, 52, pp. 152 - 162, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0023677217721260

Sengupta A; Yau JOY; Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P; Liu Y; Millan EZ; Power JM; McNally GP, 2018, 'Basolateral amygdala neurons maintain aversive emotional salience', Journal of Neuroscience, 38, pp. 3001 - 3012, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2460-17.2017

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