By Scientia Professor Bernard Balleine

Journal articles

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

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, pp. 100424, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ynstr.2021.100424

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

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

Laurent V; Balleine BW, 2021, 'How predictive learning influences choice: Evidence for a GPCR-based memory process necessary for Pavlovian-instrumental transfer', Journal of Neurochemistry, 157, pp. 1436 - 1449, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jnc.15339

Payzan-LeNestour E; Pradier L; Doran J; Nave G; Balleine B, 2021, 'Impact of ambient sound on risk perception in humans: neuroeconomic investigations', Scientific Reports, 11, pp. 5392, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-84359-7

Turner KM; Balleine BW; Bradfield LA, 2021, 'Does disrupting the orbitofrontal cortex alter sensitivity to punishment? A potential mechanism of compulsivity.', Behavioral Neuroscience, 135, pp. 174 - 181, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/bne0000443

Balleine B, 2021, 'A GPCR-based ‘memory’ process mediates the influence of predictive learning on choice between competing courses of action.', Proceedings for Annual Meeting of The Japanese Pharmacological Society, 94, pp. 1 - sl4, http://dx.doi.org/10.1254/jpssuppl.94.0_1-sl4

Quang H; Kumfor F; Nguyen T-V; Nguyen T-Q; Nguyen M-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. 119231, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jns.2021.119231

van Timmeren T; Quail SL; Balleine BW; Geurts DEM; Goudriaan AE; van Holst RJ, 2020, 'Intact corticostriatal control of goal-directed action in Alcohol Use Disorder: a Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer and outcome-devaluation study', Scientific Reports, 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-61892-5

Mo M; Jönsson ME; Mathews MA; Johnstone D; Ke YD; Ittner LM; Balleine BW; Furlong TM; Camp AJ, 2020, 'K369I Tau Mice Demonstrate a Shift Towards Striatal Neuron Burst Firing and Goal-directed Behaviour', Neuroscience, 449, pp. 46 - 62, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroscience.2020.09.023

Fisher SD; Ferguson LA; Bertran-Gonzalez J; Balleine BW, 2020, 'Amygdala-Cortical Control of Striatal Plasticity Drives the Acquisition of Goal-Directed Action', Current Biology, 30, pp. 4541 - 4546.e5, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.08.090

Bradfield LA; Leung BK; Boldt S; Liang S; Balleine BW, 2020, 'Goal-directed actions transiently depend on dorsal hippocampus', Nature Neuroscience, 23, pp. 1194 - 1197, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41593-020-0693-8

Peak J; Chieng B; Hart G; Balleine BW, 2020, 'Striatal direct and indirect pathway neurons differentially control the encoding and updating of goal-directed learning', Elife, 9, pp. 1 - 28, http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.58544

Ma C; Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P; Roughley S; Vissel B; Balleine BW; Killcross S; Bradfield LA, 2020, 'Medial Orbitofrontal Cortex Regulates Instrumental Conditioned Punishment, but not Pavlovian Conditioned Fear', Cerebral Cortex Communications, 1, pp. tgaa039, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/texcom/tgaa039

Morse AK; Leung BK; Heath E; Bertran-Gonzalez J; Pepin E; Chieng BC; Balleine BW; Laurent V, 2020, 'Basolateral Amygdala Drives a GPCR-Mediated Striatal Memory Necessary for Predictive Learning to Influence Choice', Neuron, 106, pp. 855 - 869.e8, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2020.03.007

Matamales M; McGovern AE; Mi JD; Mazzone SB; Balleine BW; Bertran-Gonzalez J, 2020, 'Local D2- To D1-neuron transmodulation updates goal-directed learning in the striatum', Science, 367, pp. 549 - 555, http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.aaz5751

Carter A; Richards LJ; Apthorp D; Azghadi MR; Badcock DR; Balleine B; Bekkers JM; Berk M; Bourne JA; Bradley AP; Breakspear M; Brichta A; Carter O; Castles A; Chakli K; Cohen-Woods S; Conn SJ; Cornish J; Cornish K; de Zubicaray G; Egan GF; Enticott PG; Fitzgibbon BM; Forlini C; Fornito A; Griffiths L; Gullifer J; Hall W; Halliday G; Hannan AJ; Harrer S; Harvey A; Hatherly C; Hickie IB; Kennett J; Kiernan M; Kilpatrick T; Kiral-Kornek I; Korgaonkar MS; Lawrence AJ; Leventer R; Levy N; Licinio J; Lovell N; Mackellar G; Malcolm L; Mason A; Mattingley JB; Medland SE; Michie PT; Nithianantharajah J; Parker J; Payne JM; Poole-Warren L; Sah P; Sarnyai Z; Schofield PR; Shimoni O; Shum DHK; Silk T; Slee M; Smith AE; Soulis T; Sriram S; Stuart GJ; Tapson J; Thompson MB; van Schaik A; Vincent NA; Vissel B; Waters A, 2020, 'Erratum: A Neuroethics Framework for the Australian Brain Initiative (Neuron (2019) 101(3) (365–369), (S0896627319300054), (10.1016/j.neuron.2019.01.004))', Neuron, 105, pp. 201, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2019.12.019

Balleine BW; Dezfouli A, 2019, 'Hierarchical Action Control: Adaptive Collaboration Between Actions and Habits', Frontiers in Psychology, 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02735

Balleine BW, 2019, 'The Meaning of Behavior: Discriminating Reflex and Volition in the Brain', Neuron, 104, pp. 47 - 62, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2019.09.024

Dezfouli A; Griffiths K; Ramos F; Dayan P; Balleine BW, 2019, 'Models that learn how humans learn: The case of decision-making and its disorders', Plos Computational Biology, 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006903

Peak J; Hart G; Balleine BW, 2019, 'From learning to action: the integration of dorsal striatal input and output pathways in instrumental conditioning', European Journal of Neuroscience, 49, pp. 658 - 671, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ejn.13964

Dezfouli A; Balleine BW; Nock R, 2019, 'Optimal response vigor and choice under non-stationary outcome values', Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 26, pp. 182 - 204, http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13423-018-1500-3

Kennett J; Carter A; Bourne JA; Hall W; Levy N; Mattingley JB; Lawrence AJ; Forlini C; Malcolm L; Vincent N; Richards LJ; Egan GF; Breakspear M; Cornish K; Halliday G; Poole-Warren L; Sriram S; Soulis T; Fitzgibbon B; Kiral-Kornek I; Badcock DR; Balleine B; Bekkers JM; Berk M; Bradley A; Brichta A; Carter O; Castles A; Clements J; Cornish J; de Zubicaray G; Enticott PG; Fornito A; Griffiths L; Gullifer J; Hannan AJ; Harrer S; Harvey A; Hickie IB; Jazwinska L; Kiernan M; Kilpatrick T; Leventer R; Licinio J; Lovell N; Mackellar G; Medland SE; Michie PT; Nithianantharajah J; Parker J; Payne JM; Rossell S; Sah P; Sarnyai Z; Schofield PR; Shum DHK; Silk T; Slee M; Stuart GJ; Tapson J; van Schaik A; Vissel B; Waters A; Apthorp D; Cohen-Woods S; Conn SJ; Korgaonkar M; Mason A; Azghadi MR; Shimoni O; Smith A; Thompson MB, 2019, 'A Neuroethics Framework for the Australian Brain Initiative', Neuron, 101, pp. 365 - 369, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2019.01.004

Dezfouli A; Balleine BW, 2019, 'Learning the structure of the world: The adaptive nature of state-space and action representations in multi-stage decisionmaking', Plos Computational Biology, 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007334

Greco L; Fisher SD; Pearl A; Akbari L; Geaghan M; Kenny PJ; Balleine B; Cairns MJ; Dayas CV, 2019, '64 OVER EXPRESSION OF THE SCHIZOPHRENIA-ASSOCIATED RISK GENE MIR-137 IN THE DORSAL STRIATUM PROMOTES COMPULSIVE COCAINE-SEEKING', European Neuropsychopharmacology, 29, pp. S95 - S96, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.euroneuro.2019.07.205

Kyme AZ; Angelis GI; Eisenhuth J; Fulton RR; Zhou V; Hart G; Popovic K; Akhtar M; Ryder WJ; Clemens KJ; Balleine BW; Parmar A; Pascali G; Perkins G; Meikle SR, 2019, 'Open-field PET: Simultaneous brain functional imaging and behavioural response measurements in freely moving small animals.', Neuroimage, 188, pp. 92 - 101, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.11.051

Bouton ME; Balleine BW, 2019, 'Prediction and Control of Operant Behavior: What You See Is Not All There Is', Behavior Analysis Research and Practice, 19, pp. 202 - 212, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/bar0000108

Bradfield LA; Hart G; Balleine BW, 2018, 'Inferring action-dependent outcome representations depends on anterior but not posterior medial orbitofrontal cortex', Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 155, pp. 463 - 473, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2018.09.008

Wong S; Balleine BW; Kumfor F, 2018, 'A new framework for conceptualizing symptoms in frontotemporal dementia: From animal models to the clinic', Brain, 141, pp. 2245 - 2254, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/brain/awy123

Hart G; Bradfield LA; Fok SY; Chieng B; Balleine BW, 2018, 'The Bilateral Prefronto-striatal Pathway Is Necessary for Learning New Goal-Directed Actions', Current Biology, 28, pp. 2218 - 2229.e7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2018.05.028

Furlong TM; Corbit LH; Brown RA; Balleine BW, 2018, 'Methamphetamine promotes habitual action and alters the density of striatal glutamate receptor and vesicular proteins in dorsal striatum', Addiction Biology, 23, pp. 857 - 867, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/adb.12534

Heath E; Chieng B; Christie MJ; Balleine BW, 2018, 'Substance P and dopamine interact to modulate the distribution of delta-opioid receptors on cholinergic interneurons in the striatum', European Journal of Neuroscience, 47, pp. 1159 - 1173, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ejn.13750

Morris RW; Cyrzon C; Green MJ; Le Pelley ME; Balleine BW, 2018, 'Impairments in action-outcome learning in schizophrenia.', Transl Psychiatry, 8, pp. 54, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41398-018-0103-0

Hart G; Bradfield LA; Balleine BW, 2018, 'Prefrontal corticostriatal disconnection blocks the acquisition of goal-directed action', Journal of Neuroscience, 38, pp. 1311 - 1322, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2850-17.2017

Kassem MS; Fok SYY; Smith KL; Kuligowski M; Balleine BW, 2018, 'A novel, modernized Golgi-Cox stain optimized for CLARITY cleared tissue', Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 294, pp. 102 - 110, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jneumeth.2017.11.010

Laurent V; Balleine BW; Westbrook RF, 2018, 'Motivational state controls the prediction error in Pavlovian appetitive-aversive interactions', Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 147, pp. 18 - 25, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2017.11.006

van Timmeren T; Quail SL; Geurts DEM; Balleine BW; van Holst RJ; Goudriaan AE, 2018, 'T268. Pavlovian-To-Instrumental Transfer and Outcome Devaluation in Human Alcohol Dependence', Biological Psychiatry, 83, pp. s233 - s234, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2018.02.605

Laurent V; Wong FL; Balleine BW, 2017, 'The lateral habenula and its input to the rostromedial tegmental nucleus mediates outcome-specific conditioned inhibition', Journal of Neuroscience, 37, pp. 10932 - 10942, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3415-16.2017

Angus DJ; Latham AJ; Harmon-Jones E; Deliano M; Balleine B; Braddon-Mitchell D, 2017, 'Electrocortical components of anticipation and consumption in a monetary incentive delay task', Psychophysiology, 54, pp. 1686 - 1705, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/psyp.12913

Matamales M; Skrbis Z; Bailey MR; Balsam PD; Balleine BW; Götz J; Bertran-Gonzalez J, 2017, 'A corticostriatal deficit promotes temporal distortion of automatic action in ageing', Elife, 6, pp. e29908, http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.29908

Quail SL; Laurent V; Balleine BW, 2017, 'Inhibitory pavlovian-instrumental transfer in humans', Journal of Experimental Psychology Animal Learning and Cognition, 43, pp. 315 - 324, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xan0000148

Parkes SL; Furlong TM; Black AD; Balleine BW, 2017, 'Intermittent feeding alters sensitivity to changes in reward value', Appetite, 113, pp. 1 - 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2017.02.009

Yücel M; Carter A; Allen AR; Balleine B; Clark L; Dowling NA; Gainsbury SM; Goudriaan AE; Grant J; Hayes A; Hodgins D; van Holst R; Lattimore R; Livingstone C; Lorenzetti V; Lubman D; Murawski C; Parkes L; Petry N; Room R; Singh B; Thomas A; Townshend P; Youssef G; Hall W, 2017, 'Neuroscience in gambling policy and treatment: an interdisciplinary perspective', Lancet Psychiatry, 4, pp. 501 - 506, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2215-0366(16)30369-8

Quail SL; Morris RW; Balleine BW, 2017, 'Stress associated changes in Pavlovian-instrumental transfer in humans', Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 70, pp. 675 - 685, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2016.1149198

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