By Professor Gavan Patrick McNally

Journal articles

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

Jean-Richard-Dit-Bressel P; Gaetani K; Zeng L; Weidemann G; McNally GP, 2024, 'Translational research in punishment learning.', Behav Neurosci, 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

Assareh N; Bagley EE; Carrive P; McNally GP, 2017, 'Brief optogenetic inhibition of rat lateral or ventrolateral periaqueductal gray augments the acquisition of pavlovian fear conditioning', Behavioral Neuroscience, 131, pp. 454 - 459, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/bne0000217

Arico C; Bagley EE; Carrive P; Assareh N; McNally GP, 2017, 'Effects of chemogenetic excitation or inhibition of the ventrolateral periaqueductal gray on the acquisition and extinction of Pavlovian fear conditioning', Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 144, pp. 186 - 197, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2017.07.006

Choi EA; McNally GP, 2017, 'Paraventricular thalamus balances danger and reward', Journal of Neuroscience, 37, pp. 3018 - 3029, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3320-16.2017

Choi EA; McNally GP, 2017, 'Paraventricular thalamus influences approach and avoidance', Journal of Neuroscience, 37, pp. 1

Khoo SY; McNally GP; Clemens KJ, 2017, 'The dual orexin receptor antagonist TCS1102 does not affect reinstatement of nicotine-seeking', PLoS One, 12, pp. e0173967 - e0173967, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0173967

Khoo SYS; Gibson GD; Prasad AA; McNally GP, 2017, 'How contexts promote and prevent relapse to drug seeking', Genes, Brain and Behavior, 16, pp. 185 - 204, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gbb.12328

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