By Scientia Professor Bernard Balleine

Journal articles

Hart G; Balleine BW, 2016, 'Consolidation of goal-directed action depends on MAPK/ERK signaling in rodent prelimbic cortex', Journal of Neuroscience, 36, pp. 11974 - 11986, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1772-16.2016

Corbit LH; Balleine BW, 2016, 'Learning and motivational processes contributing to pavlovian–instrumental transfer and their neural bases: Dopamine and beyond', Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences, 27, pp. 259 - 289, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/7854_2015_388

Matamales M; Skrbis Z; Hatch RJ; Balleine BW; Götz J; Bertran-Gonzalez J, 2016, 'Aging-Related Dysfunction of Striatal Cholinergic Interneurons Produces Conflict in Action Selection', Neuron, 90, pp. 362 - 373, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2016.03.006

Leah PM; Heath EML; Balleine BW; Christie MJ, 2016, 'Chronic Morphine Reduces Surface Expression of δ-Opioid Receptors in Subregions of Rostral Striatum', Neurochemical Research, 41, pp. 500 - 509, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11064-015-1638-6

Griffiths KR; Lagopoulos J; Hermens DF; Lee RSC; Guastella AJ; Hickie IB; Balleine BW, 2016, 'Impaired causal awareness and associated cortical–basal ganglia structural changes in youth psychiatric disorders', NeuroImage: Clinical, 12, pp. 285 - 292, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nicl.2016.06.017

Payzan-LeNestour E; Balleine BW; Berrada T; Pearson J; Payzan E, 2016, 'Variance After-Effects Distort Risk Perception in Humans', Current Biology, 26, pp. 1500 - 1504, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2016.04.023

Balleine BW; Morris RW; Leung BK, 2015, 'Thalamocortical integration of instrumental learning and performance and their disintegration in addiction', Brain Research, 1628, pp. 104 - 116, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2014.12.023

Griffiths KR; Lagopoulos J; Hermens DF; Hickie IB; Balleine BW, 2015, 'Right external globus pallidus changes are associated with altered causal awareness in youth with depression', Translational Psychiatry, 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/tp.2015.148

Balleine BW; Dezfouli A; Ito M; Doya K, 2015, 'Hierarchical control of goal-directed action in the cortical-basal ganglia network', Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 5, pp. 1 - 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2015.06.001

Shan Q; Christie MJ; Balleine BW, 2015, 'Plasticity in striatopallidal projection neurons mediates the acquisition of habitual actions', European Journal of Neuroscience, 42, pp. 2097 - 2104, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ejn.12971

Parkes SL; Bradfield LA; Balleine BW, 2015, 'Interaction of insular cortex and ventral striatum mediates the effect of incentive memory on choice between goal-directed actions', Journal of Neuroscience, 35, pp. 6464 - 6471, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4153-14.2015

Laurent V; Balleine BW, 2015, 'Factual and counterfactual action-outcome mappings control choice between goal-directed actions in rats', Current Biology, 25, pp. 1074 - 1079, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2015.02.044

Morris RW; Quail S; Griffiths KR; Green MJ; Balleine BW, 2015, 'Corticostriatal control of goal-directed action is impaired in schizophrenia', Biological Psychiatry, 77, pp. 187 - 195, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2014.06.005

Bradfield LA; Dezfouli A; Van Holstein M; Chieng B; Balleine BW, 2015, 'Medial Orbitofrontal Cortex Mediates Outcome Retrieval in Partially Observable Task Situations', Neuron, 88, pp. 1268 - 1280, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2015.10.044

Laurent V; Morse AK; Balleine BW, 2015, 'The role of opioid processes in reward and decision-making', British Journal of Pharmacology, 172, pp. 449 - 459, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bph.12818

Leung BK; Balleine BW, 2015, 'Ventral pallidal projections to mediodorsal thalamus and ventral tegmental area play distinct roles in outcome-specific pavlovian-instrumental transfer', Journal of Neuroscience, 35, pp. 4953 - 4964, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4837-14.2015

Laurent V; Wong FL; Balleine BW, 2015, 'δ-Opioid receptors in the accumbens shell mediate the influence of both excitatory and inhibitory predictions on choice', British Journal of Pharmacology, 172, pp. 562 - 570, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bph.12731

Dezfouli A; Lingawi NW; Balleine BW, 2014, 'Habits as action sequences: Hierarchical action control and changes in outcome value', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 369, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2013.0482

Dezfouli A; Lingawi NW; Balleine BW, 2014, 'Habits as action sequences: hierarchical action control and changes in outcome value', Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 369, http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2013.0482

Morris RW; Dezfouli A; Griffiths KR; Balleine BW, 2014, 'Action-value comparisons in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex control choice between goal-directed actions', Nature Communications, 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms5390

Griffiths KR; Morris RW; Balleine BW, 2014, 'Translational studies of goal-directed action as a framework for classifying deficits across psychiatric disorders', Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnsys.2014.00101

Alvares GA; Balleine BW; Guastella AJ, 2014, 'Impairments in goal-directed actions predict treatment response to cognitive-behavioral therapy in social anxiety disorder', PLoS ONE, 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0094778

Hart G; Leung BK; Balleine BW, 2014, 'Dorsal and ventral streams: The distinct role of striatal subregions in the acquisition and performance of goal-directed actions', Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 108, pp. 104 - 118, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nlm.2013.11.003

Laurent V; Bertran-Gonzalez J; Chieng BC; Balleine BW, 2014, 'δ-Opioid and dopaminergic processes in accumbens shell modulate the cholinergic control of predictive learning and choice', Journal of Neuroscience, 34, pp. 1358 - 1369, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4592-13.2014

Furlong TM; Jayaweera HK; Balleine BW; Corbit LH, 2014, 'Binge-like consumption of a palatable food accelerates habitual control of behavior and is dependent on activation of the dorsolateral striatum', Journal of Neuroscience, 34, pp. 5012 - 5022, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3707-13.2014

Corbit LH; Chieng BC; Balleine BW, 2014, 'Effects of repeated cocaine exposure on habit learning and reversal by N-acetylcysteine', Neuropsychopharmacology, 39, pp. 1893 - 1901, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/npp.2014.37

Shan Q; Ge M; Christie MJ; Balleine BW, 2014, 'The acquisition of goal-directed actions generates opposing plasticity in direct and indirect pathways in dorsomedial striatum', Journal of Neuroscience, 34, pp. 9196 - 9201, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0313-14.2014

Balleine BW, 2014, 'How many neural systems does it take to change a light bulb?', Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 18, pp. 510 - 511, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2014.06.008

Corbit LH; Leung BK; Balleine BW, 2013, 'The role of the amygdala-striatal pathway in the acquisition and performance of goal-directed instrumental actions', Journal of Neuroscience, 33, pp. 17682 - 17690, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3271-13.2013

Bertran-Gonzalez J; Laurent V; Chieng BC; Christie MJ; Balleine BW, 2013, 'Learning-related translocation of δ-Opioid receptors on ventral striatal cholinergic interneurons mediates choice between goal-directed actions', Journal of Neuroscience, 33, pp. 16060 - 16071, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1927-13.2013

Bradfield LA; Hart G; Balleine BW, 2013, 'The role of the anterior, mediodorsal, and parafascicular thalamus in instrumental conditioning', Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnsys.2013.00051

Leung BK; Balleine BW, 2013, 'The ventral striato-pallidal pathway mediates the effect of predictive learning on choice between goal-directed actions', Journal of Neuroscience, 33, pp. 13848 - 13860, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1697-13.2013

Bradfield LA; Balleine BW, 2013, 'Hierarchical and binary associations compete for behavioral control during instrumental biconditional discrimination', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 39, pp. 2 - 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0030941

Alvares GA; Quintana DS; Kemp AH; Van Zwieten A; Balleine BW; Hickie IB; Guastella AJ, 2013, 'Reduced Heart Rate Variability in Social Anxiety Disorder: Associations with Gender and Symptom Severity', PLoS ONE, 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0070468

Bradfield LA; Bertran-Gonzalez J; Chieng B; Balleine BW, 2013, 'The Thalamostriatal Pathway and Cholinergic Control of Goal-Directed Action: Interlacing New with Existing Learning in the Striatum', Neuron, 79, pp. 153 - 166, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2013.04.039

Parkes SL; Balleine BW, 2013, 'Incentive memory: Evidence the basolateral amygdala encodes and the insular cortex retrieves outcome values to guide choice between goal-directed actions', Journal of Neuroscience, 33, pp. 8753 - 8763, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5071-12.2013

Dezfouli A; Balleine BW, 2013, 'Actions, Action Sequences and Habits: Evidence That Goal-Directed and Habitual Action Control Are Hierarchically Organized', PLoS Computational Biology, 9, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003364

Hogarth L; Balleine BW; Corbit LH; Killcross S, 2013, 'Associative learning mechanisms underpinning the transition from recreational drug use to addiction', Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1282, pp. 12 - 24, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-6632.2012.06768.x

Bradfield LA; Hart G; Balleine BW, 2013, 'The role of the anterior, mediodorsal, and parafascicular thalamus in instrumental conditioning', FRONTIERS IN SYSTEMS NEUROSCIENCE, 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fus4s.2013.00051

Pacitti H; Balleine B; Killcross S, 2013, 'C.18 - STUCK IN A LOOP', Behavioural Pharmacology, 24, pp. e35 - e35, http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/01.fbp.0000434802.96581.97

Pacitti H; Balleine B; Killcross S, 2013, 'NANOSYMPOSIUM N 1 CORTICOSTRIATAL SUBSTRATES OF ADDICTION', Behavioural Pharmacology, 24, pp. e17 - e17, http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/01.fbp.0000434746.35592.9a

Bertran-Gonzalez J; Chieng BC; Laurent V; Valjent E; Balleine BW, 2012, 'Striatal Cholinergic Interneurons Display Activity-Related Phosphorylation of Ribosomal Protein S6', PLoS ONE, 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0053195

Alvares GA; Chen NTM; Balleine BW; Hickie IB; Guastella AJ, 2012, 'Oxytocin selectively moderates negative cognitive appraisals in high trait anxious males', Psychoneuroendocrinology, 37, pp. 2022 - 2031, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2012.04.018

Dezfouli A; Balleine BW, 2012, 'Habits, action sequences and reinforcement learning', European Journal of Neuroscience, 35, pp. 1036 - 1051, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-9568.2012.08050.x

Wassum KM; Tolosa VM; Tseng TC; Balleine BW; Monbouquette HG; Maidment NT, 2012, 'Transient extracellular glutamate events in the basolateral amygdala track reward-seeking actions', Journal of Neuroscience, 32, pp. 2734 - 2746, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5780-11.2012

Laurent V; Leung B; Maidment N; Balleine BW, 2012, 'μ- and δ-Opioid-related processes in the accumbens core and shell differentially mediate the influence of reward-guided and stimulus-guided decisions on choice', Journal of Neuroscience, 32, pp. 1875 - 1883, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4688-11.2012

Lingawi NW; Balleine BW, 2012, 'Amygdala central nucleus interacts with dorsolateral striatum to regulate the acquisition of habits', Journal of Neuroscience, 32, pp. 1073 - 1081, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4806-11.2012

Shiflett MW; Balleine BW, 2011, 'Molecular substrates of action control in cortico-striatal circuits', Progress in Neurobiology, 95, pp. 1 - 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pneurobio.2011.05.007

Corbit LH; Balleine BW, 2011, 'The general and outcome-specific forms of pavlovian-instrumental transfer are differentially mediated by the nucleus accumbens core and shell', Journal of Neuroscience, 31, pp. 11786 - 11794, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2711-11.2011

Wassum KM; Ostlund SB; Balleine BW; Maidment NT, 2011, 'Differential dependence of Pavlovian incentive motivation and instrumental incentive learning processes on dopamine signaling', Learning and Memory, 18, pp. 475 - 483, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/lm.2229311

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