By Scientia Professor Bernard Balleine

Book Chapters

Balleine BW, 2022, 'Animal models of action control and cognitive dysfunction in Parkinson's disease', in Progress in Brain Research, pp. 227 - 255, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/bs.pbr.2022.01.006

Hart G; Balleine B, 2022, 'Medial Striatum', in Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior, Springer International Publishing, pp. 4153 - 4157, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55065-7_1288

Balleine BW, 2021, 'Corticostriatal Intrusions', in Intrusive Thinking, The MIT Press, pp. 21 - 38, http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/13875.003.0008

Roberts AC; Goldstein RZ; Badre D; Balleine BW; Critchley HD; Fotopoulou A; Frangou S; Friston KJ; Maia TV; Stein EA, 2021, 'Systems Approach to Intrusive Experiences', in Intrusive Thinking, The MIT Press, pp. 245 - 284, http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/13875.003.0020

Balleine BW, 2018, 'The motivation of action and the origins of reward', in Goal-Directed Decision Making: Computations and Neural Circuits, pp. 429 - 455, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-812098-9.00019-X

Balleine BW, 2018, 'Chapter 19 The Motivation of Action and the Origins of Reward', in Goal-Directed Decision Making, Elsevier, pp. 429 - 455, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-12-812098-9.00019-x

Bradfield LA; Balleine BW, 2017, 'The learning and motivational processes controlling goal-directed action and their neural bases', in Decision Neuroscience: An Integrative Perspective, pp. 71 - 80, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-805308-9.00006-3

Bradfield LA; Balleine BW, 2017, 'Chapter 6 The Learning and Motivational Processes Controlling Goal-Directed Action and Their Neural Bases', in Decision Neuroscience, Elsevier, pp. 71 - 80, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-12-805308-9.00006-3

Hart G; Balleine B, 2017, 'Medial Striatum', in Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior, Springer International Publishing, pp. 1 - 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47829-6_1288-1

Lingawi NW; Dezfouli A; Balleine BW, 2016, 'The Psychological and Physiological Mechanisms of Habit Formation', in The Wiley Handbook on the Cognitive Neuroscience of Learning, Wiley, pp. 409 - 441, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118650813.ch16

Balleine BW, 2016, 'The Cognitive Control of Goal-Directed Action: How Predictive Learning Affects Choice', in Advances in Cognitive Neurodynamics, Springer Singapore, pp. 27 - 33, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0207-6_5

Lingawi NW; Dezfouli A; Balleine BW, 2015, 'The Psychological and Physiological Mechanisms of Habit Formation', in The Wiley Handbook on the Cognitive Neuroscience of Learning, pp. 411 - 441, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781118650813.ch16

Balleine BW; Daw ND; O'Doherty JP, 2009, 'Multiple forms of value learning and the function of dopamine', in Neuroeconomics, pp. 367 - 387, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-374176-9.00024-5

Balleine BW, 2009, 'Incentive Behavior', in The Behavior of the Laboratory Rat: A Handbook with Tests, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195162851.003.0041

Ostlund SB; Balleine BW, 2009, 'Goal-Directed Behavior Theories', in Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, pp. 943 - 949, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-008045046-9.01570-9

Balleine BW; Daw ND; O'Doherty JP, 2009, 'Chapter 24 Multiple Forms of Value Learning and the Function of Dopamine', in Neuroeconomics, Elsevier, pp. 367 - 387, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-12-374176-9.00024-5

Balleine BW, 2008, 'Taste, Disgust, and Value: Taste Aversion Learning and Outcome Encoding in Instrumental Conditioning', in Conditioned Taste Aversion Behavioral and Neural Processes, Oxford University PressNew York, NY, pp. 262 - 280, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195326581.003.0013

Ostlund SB; Winterbauer NE; Balleine BW, 2008, '1.36 Theory of Reward Systems', in Learning and Memory: A Comprehensive Reference, Elsevier, pp. 701 - 720, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/b978-012370509-9.00089-9

Ostlund SB; Winterbauer NE; Balleine BW, 2007, 'Theory of reward systems', in Learning and Memory: A Comprehensive Reference, pp. 701 - 720, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-012370509-9.00089-9

Dickinson A; Balleine B, 2002, 'The Role of Learning in the Operation of Motivational Systems', in , Wiley, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/0471214426.pas0312

Dickinson A; Balleine BW, 2000, 'Causal Cognition and Goal-Directed Action', in The Evolution of Cognition, The MIT Press, pp. 185 - 204, http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/2872.003.0015

Journal articles

Burton TJ; Kumar AR; Lingawi NW; Gladding JM; Balleine BW; Laurent V, 2024, 'Response-independent outcome presentations dissociate stimulus and value based choice', Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 215, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2024.107989

Leung BK; Chieng B; Becchi S; Balleine BW, 2024, 'A ventral pallidal-thalamocortical circuit mediates the cognitive control of instrumental action', Current Biology, 34, pp. 3315 - 3326.e6, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.06.011

Hart G; Burton TJ; Balleine BW, 2024, 'What Role Does Striatal Dopamine Play in Goal-directed Action?', Neuroscience, 546, pp. 20 - 32, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroscience.2024.03.020

Hart G; Burton TJ; Nolan CR; Balleine BW, 2024, 'Striatal dopamine release tracks the relationship between actions and their consequences', Cell Reports, 43, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.celrep.2024.113828

Ferguson LA; Matamales M; Nolan C; Balleine BW; Bertran-Gonzalez J, 2024, 'Adaptation of sequential action benefits from timing variability related to lateral basal ganglia circuitry', iScience, 27, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.109274

Turner KM; Balleine BW, 2024, 'Stimulus control of habits: Evidence for both stimulus specificity and devaluation insensitivity in a dual-response task', Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 121, pp. 52 - 61, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jeab.898

Perkes IE; Morris RW; Griffiths KR; Quail S; Waters F; O'Brien M; Hazell PL; Balleine BW, 2023, 'The Motivational Determinants of Human Action, Their Neural Bases and Functional Impact in Adolescents With Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder', Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science, 3, pp. 1062 - 1072, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsgos.2022.11.004

Quang H; Le Heron C; Balleine B; Nguyen TV; Nguyen TQ; Nguyen MN; Kumfor F; McDonald S, 2023, 'Reduced Sensitivity to Background Reward Underlies Apathy After Traumatic Brain Injury: Insights From an Ecological Foraging Framework', Neuroscience, 528, pp. 26 - 36, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroscience.2023.07.026

Burton TJ; Hart G; Balleine BW, 2023, 'What does dopamine release reveal about latent inhibition?', Learning and Behavior, 51, pp. 217 - 218, http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13420-022-00556-y

Leung BK; Merlin S; Walker AK; Lawther AJ; Paxinos G; Eapen V; Clarke R; Balleine BW; Furlong TM, 2023, 'Immp2l knockdown in male mice increases stimulus-driven instrumental behaviour but does not alter goal-directed learning or neuron density in cortico-striatal circuits in a model of Tourette syndrome and autism spectrum disorder', Behavioural Brain Research, 452, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2023.114610

Becchi S; Chieng B; Bradfield LA; Capellán R; Leung BK; Balleine BW, 2023, 'Cognitive effects of thalamostriatal degeneration are ameliorated by normalizing striatal cholinergic activity', Science Advances, 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.ade8247

Dhungana A; Becchi S; Leake J; Morris G; Avgan N; Balleine BW; Vissel B; Bradfield LA, 2023, 'Goal-Directed Action Is Initially Impaired in a hAPP-J20 Mouse Model of Alzheimer’s Disease', eNeuro, 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0363-22.2023

Filipčíková M; Balleine B; Kumfor F; McDonald S, 2023, 'Action control and selection in social disinhibition following severe TBI: a pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer and outcome devaluation study', Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 45, pp. 825 - 839, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13803395.2024.2313257

Burton TJ; Balleine BW, 2022, 'The positive valence system, adaptive behaviour and the origins of reward', Emerging Topics in Life Sciences, 6, pp. 501 - 513, http://dx.doi.org/10.1042/ETLS20220007

Ge M; Balleine BW, 2022, 'The role of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis in the motivational control of instrumental action', Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 16, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2022.968593

Quang H; Kumfor F; Balleine B; Nguyen TV; Nguyen TQ; Nguyen MN; McDonald S, 2022, 'Contributions of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Reward Sensitivity to Apathy: Evidence From Traumatic Brain Injury', Neuropsychology, 36, pp. 791 - 802, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/neu0000858

Morris RW; Dezfouli A; Griffiths KR; Le Pelley ME; Balleine BW, 2022, 'The Neural Bases of Action-Outcome Learning in Humans', Journal of Neuroscience, 42, pp. 3636 - 3647, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1079-21.2022

Laurent V; Westbrook RF; Balleine BW, 2022, 'Affective Valence Regulates Associative Competition in Pavlovian Conditioning', Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 16, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2022.801474

Kassem MS; Balleine BW, 2022, 'A novel estimation method for the counting of dendritic spines', Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 368, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jneumeth.2021.109454

Mor D; Becchi S; Bowring J; Tsoukalas M; Balleine BW, 2022, 'CRF-receptor1 modulation of the dopamine projection to prelimbic cortex facilitates cognitive flexibility after acute and chronic stress', NEUROBIOLOGY OF STRESS, 16, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ynstr.2021.100424

Pool ER; Gera R; Fransen A; Perez OD; Cremer A; Aleksic M; Tanwisuth S; Quail S; Ceceli AO; Manfredi DA; Nave G; Tricomi E; Balleine B; Schonberg T; Schwabe L; O'Doherty JP, 2022, 'Determining the effects of training duration on the behavioral expression of habitual control in humans: a multilaboratory investigation', Learning and Memory, 29, pp. 16 - 28, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/lm.053413.121

Crimmins B; Burton TJ; McNulty M; Laurent V; Hart G; Balleine BW, 2022, 'Response-Independent Outcome Presentations Weaken the Instrumental Response-Outcome Association', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, 48, pp. 396 - 412, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xan0000340

Becchi S; Hood J; Kendig M; Mohammadkhani A; Shipman M; Balleine B; Borgland S; Corbit L, 2022, 'Food for thought: Diet-induced impairments to decision-making and amelioration by N-acetylcysteine in male rats', Psychopharmachology

Becchi S; Buson A; Balleine BW, 2021, 'Inhibition of vascular adhesion protein 1 protects dopamine neurons from the effects of acute inflammation and restores habit learning in the striatum', Journal of Neuroinflammation, 18, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12974-021-02288-8

Quang H; Kumfor F; Tuong-Vu N; Truc-Quynh N; My-Ngan N; Balleine B; Mcdonald S, 2021, 'Altered intrinsic and extrinsic reward sensitivity underpins apathy: Evidence from moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury', JOURNAL OF THE NEUROLOGICAL SCIENCES, 429, pp. 187 - 187, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jns.2021.119231

Bradfield L; Balleine B, 2021, 'Editorial overview: Value-based decision making: control, value, and context in action', Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 41, pp. iii - vi, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2021.09.003

Balleine BW, 2021, 'Emotional predictions and choice', Nature Human Behaviour, 5, pp. 1271 - 1272, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41562-021-01208-3

Balleine BW; Peak J; Matamales M; Bertran-Gonzalez J; Hart G, 2021, 'The dorsomedial striatum: an optimal cellular environment for encoding and updating goal-directed learning', Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 41, pp. 38 - 44, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2021.03.004

Laurent V; Priya P; Crimmins BE; Balleine BW, 2021, 'General Pavlovian-instrumental transfer tests reveal selective inhibition of the response type – whether Pavlovian or instrumental – performed during extinction', Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 183, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2021.107483

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