By Scientia Professor Bernard Balleine

Journal articles

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

Shiflett MW; Balleine BW, 2011, 'Contributions of ERK signaling in the striatum to instrumental learning and performance', Behavioural Brain Research, 218, pp. 240 - 247, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2010.12.010

Liljeholm M; Tricomi E; O'Doherty JP; Balleine BW, 2011, 'Neural correlates of instrumental contingency learning: Differential effects of action-reward conjunction and disjunction', Journal of Neuroscience, 31, pp. 2474 - 2480, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3354-10.2011

Wassum KM; Cely IC; Balleine BW; Maidment NT, 2011, 'μ-opioid receptor activation in the basolateral amygdala mediates the learning of increases but not decreases in the incentive value of a food reward', Journal of Neuroscience, 31, pp. 1591 - 1599, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3102-10.2011

Ostlund SB; Wassum KM; Murphy NP; Balleine BW; Maidment NT, 2011, 'Extracellular dopamine levels in striatal subregions track shifts in motivation and response cost during instrumental conditioning', Journal of Neuroscience, 31, pp. 200 - 207, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4759-10.2011

Balleine BW; Leung BK; Ostlund SB, 2011, 'The orbitofrontal cortex, predicted value, and choice', Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1239, pp. 43 - 50, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-6632.2011.06270.x

Shiflett MW; Balleine BW, 2010, 'At the limbic-motor interface: Disconnection of basolateral amygdala from nucleus accumbens core and shell reveals dissociable components of incentive motivation', European Journal of Neuroscience, 32, pp. 1735 - 1743, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-9568.2010.07439.x

Ostlund SB; Maidment NT; Balleine BW, 2010, 'Alcohol-paired contextual cues produce an immediate and selective loss of goal-directed action in rats', Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, pp. 1 - 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnint.2010.00019

Liljeholm M; Balleine BW, 2010, 'Extracting Functional Equivalence From Reversing Contingencies', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 36, pp. 165 - 171, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0016484

Shiflett MW; Brown RA; Balleine BW, 2010, 'Acquisition and performance of goal-directed instrumental actions depends on ERK signaling in distinct regions of dorsal striatum in rats', Journal of Neuroscience, 30, pp. 2951 - 2959, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1778-09.2010

Balleine BW; O'Doherty JP, 2010, 'Human and rodent homologies in action control: Corticostriatal determinants of goal-directed and habitual action', Neuropsychopharmacology, 35, pp. 48 - 69, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/npp.2009.131

Wassum KM; Cely IC; Maidment NT; Balleine BW, 2009, 'Disruption of endogenous opioid activity during instrumental learning enhances habit acquisition', Neuroscience, 163, pp. 770 - 780, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroscience.2009.06.071

Wassum KM; Ostlund SB; Maidment NT; Balleine BW, 2009, 'Distinct opioid circuits determine the palatability and the desirability of rewarding events', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 106, pp. 12512 - 12517, http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0905874106

de Wit S; Ostlund SB; Balleine BW; Dickinson A, 2009, 'Resolution of Conflict Between Goal-Directed Actions: Outcome Encoding and Neural Control Processes', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 35, pp. 382 - 393, http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0014793

Ostlund SB; Winterbauer NE; Balleine BW, 2009, 'Evidence of action sequence chunking in goal-directed instrumental conditioning and its dependence on the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex', Journal of Neuroscience, 29, pp. 8280 - 8287, http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1176-09.2009

Liljeholm M; Balleine BW, 2009, 'Mediated conditioning versus retrospective revaluation in humans: The influence of physical and functional similarity of cues', Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 62, pp. 470 - 482, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17470210802008805

Tricomi E; Balleine BW; O'Doherty JP, 2009, 'A specific role for posterior dorsolateral striatum in human habit learning', European Journal of Neuroscience, 29, pp. 2225 - 2232, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-9568.2009.06796.x

Balleine BW; Liljeholm M; Ostlund SB, 2009, 'The integrative function of the basal ganglia in instrumental conditioning', Behavioural Brain Research, 199, pp. 43 - 52, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bbr.2008.10.034

Ostlund SB; Balleine BW, 2008, 'On habits and addiction: an associative analysis of compulsive drug seeking', Drug Discovery Today: Disease Models, 5, pp. 235 - 245, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ddmod.2009.07.004

Yin HH; Ostlund SB; Balleine BW, 2008, 'Reward-guided learning beyond dopamine in the nucleus accumbens: The integrative functions of cortico-basal ganglia networks', European Journal of Neuroscience, 28, pp. 1437 - 1448, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-9568.2008.06422.x

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