By Professor Gavan Patrick McNally

Preprints

Zeng L; Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P; McNally GP; Morley K; Livesey EJ, 2026, Validating an abridged version of Planets and Pirates conditioned punishment task, http://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/7fzn5_v1

Cooley BJ; Sirohi P; Gilroy CA; Tong JS; Price CG; Mitchell E; Heller WA; Chilkoti A; Lawrence AJ; McNally GP; Millan EZ, 2026, Dual GLP-1/FGF21 agonism suppresses voluntary alcohol consumption, alcohol choice, and nucleus accumbens dopamine modulation, http://dx.doi.org/10.64898/2026.04.30.721773

Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P; Zeng L; Park H; McNally G, 2025, Causal inference deficits and integration failure drive stable variation in human punishment sensitivity, http://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ac423_v1

Gaetani K; McNally G; Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P, 2025, Early contingency information enhances human punishment sensitivity when punishment is frequent but not rare, http://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/s3vg8_v1

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

Millan Z; Lim JH; Power J; McNally G, 2021, Rapid appetitive transitions are sculpted by amygdala to accumbens pathways, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2021.04.11.435530

McNally GP; Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P, A cognitive pathway to persistent, maladaptive choice, http://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/nrwve

Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P; Lee JC; Liew SX; Weidemann G; Lovibond P; McNally GP, A cognitive pathway to punishment insensitivity, http://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/qw534

Choi EA; Husić M; Millan EZ; Bressel PJRD; McNally GP, A corticothalamic circuit trades off speed for safety during decision-making under motivational conflict, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2021.11.21.469477

Sengupta A; Yau JOY; Bressel PJ-RD; Liu Y; Millan EZ; Power JM; McNally GP, Basolateral amygdala glutamatergic neurons maintain aversive emotional salience, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/186072

Yau JO-Y; Chaichim C; Power JM; McNally GP, Basolateral amygdala parvalbumin neurons report aversive prediction error to constrain fear learning, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2020.09.22.307561

Bach DR; Miller RR; Callejas-Aguilera JE; Don H; Fraser K; Iordonova M; Lee JC; Linnell J; Liu H; Livesey EJ; Lonsdorf TB; Mancinelli F; McNally GP; Monfils M-H; Rosas JM; Shanks D; Üngör M; Vadillo MA; Vervliet B; Dwyer DM; Beckers T, Benchmarks for Associative Learning Models, http://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/qsgz8_v1

Bach DR; Miller RR; Callejas-Aguilera JE; Don H; Fraser K; Iordonova M; Lee JC; Linnell J; Liu H; Livesey EJ; Lonsdorf TB; Mancinelli F; McNally GP; Monfils M-H; Rosas JM; Shanks D; Üngör M; Vadillo MA; Vervliet B; Dwyer DM; Beckers T, Benchmarks for Associative Learning Models, http://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/qsgz8_v2

Assareh N; Bagley EE; Carrive P; McNally GP, Brief optogenetic inhibition of rat lateral or ventrolateral periaqueductal gray augments the acquisition of Pavlovian fear conditioning, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/191841

Prasad AA; Xie C; Chaichim C; Killcross S; Power JM; McNally GP, Complementary roles for ventral pallidum cell types and their projections in relapse, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/533554

Jean-Richard-Dit-Bressel P; Tan S; Shen M; Keevers L; Williams-Spooner M; McNally G; Killcross S, Disinhibition of ventral tegmental area during initial punishment learning causes enduring punishment insensitivity, http://dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-7865029/v1

Wang R; Yau J; Kalra M; Gilchrist S; Livermore A; Gregoriou G; Schennink M; Moreno C; Santhakumar R; Rafiei N; Hao Z; Estrella J; Thomsen T; Hartvig E; Capertonova M; Jensen K; Landler S; Tian L; Neely G; Berndt A; Bruchas M; McNally G; Bagley E, Enkephalin constrains fear learning via volume transmission to the lateral amygdala, http://dx.doi.org/10.64898/2026.07.17.739254

Bagley E; Wang R; Yau J; Kalra M; Gilchrist S; Livermore A; Gregoriou G; Schennink M; Moreno C; Santhakumar R; Rafiei N; Hao Z; Estrella J; Thomson T; Østergaard E; Capertonová M; Jensen K; Landler S; Tian L; Neely G; Berndt A; Bruchas M; McNally G, Enkephalin constrains fear learning via volume transmission to the lateral amygdala, http://dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-10600205/v1

Cooley BJ; Hanbury-Brown CVO; Choi EA; Heller WA; Lim AW; Lawrence AJ; Haber PS; McNally GP; Millan EZ, FGF21 Analogue PF-05231023 on Alcohol Consumption and Neuronal Activity in the Nucleus Accumbens, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2024.12.22.629996

Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P; Tran J; Didachos A; McNally GP, Instrumental aversion coding in the basolateral amygdala and its reversion by a benzodiazepine, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2021.07.08.451726

Wise ET; Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P; Yau JO-Y; McNally GP; Power JM, Instrumental Punishment Learning Enhances the Intrinsic Excitability of Basolateral Amygdala Neurons, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2025.05.02.651812

Mitchell CS; Mohammadkhani A; Manning EE; Campbell EJ; Fisher SD; Yeoh JW; Pearl AJ; Burton NJ; Qiao M; Iredale JA; Bains JS; McNally GP; Andrews ZA; Graham BA; Scammell TE; Lowell BB; Kong D; Borgland SL; Dayas CV, Neurons in the ventral striatopallidal complex modulate lateral hypothalamic orexin/hypocretin neuron activity: Implications for reward-seeking, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2020.03.05.979468

Keevers LJ; McNally GP; Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P, Obtaining artifact-corrected signals in fiber photometry: Isosbestic signals, robust regression and dF/F calculations, http://dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-3549461/v1

Keevers LJ; McNally GP; Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P, Obtaining artifact-corrected signals in fiber photometry: Isosbestic signals, robust regression and dF/F calculations, http://dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-3549461/v2

Mitchell CS; Campbell EJ; Fisher SD; Stanton LM; Burton NJ; Pearl AJ; McNally GP; Bains JS; Füzesi T; Graham BA; Manning EE; Dayas CV, Optogenetic recruitment of hypothalamic corticotrophin-releasing-hormone (CRH) neurons reduces motivational drive, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2023.02.03.527084

Peng CY; Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P; Gilchrist S; Power JM; McNally GP, Phasic inhibition of dopamine neurons is an instrumental punisher, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2020.11.25.399220

Yau JO-Y; Li A; Abdallah L; Lisowksi L; McNally GP, State- and circuit-dependent opponent-processing of fear, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2024.05.06.592282

Gregory AV; Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P; Huang N; Diefenbach J; Choi E; Soo J; Chen J; Killcross AS; McNally GP, The brain architecture of punishment learning, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2025.11.24.690287

Liu Y; Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P; Yau JO-Y; Willing A; Prasad AA; Power JM; Killcross S; Clifford CWG; McNally GP, The mesolimbic dopamine signatures of relapse to alcohol-seeking, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2020.03.06.981605

McNally GP; Yau JO-Y, The Rescorla-Wagner model, prediction error, and fear learning, http://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/csj56

Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P; Gaetani K; Zeng LZ; Weidemann G; McNally GP, Translational research in punishment learning, http://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/jft7u

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