By Scientia Professor Bernard Balleine

Journal articles

Balleine BW; McGregor IS; Atrens DM, 1989, 'Controllability of prestimulation of the medial prefrontal cortex determines the facilitation of self-stimulation and kindled seizures', Physiology and Behavior, 46, pp. 239 - 245, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0031-9384(89)90262-X

Atrens DM; Van Der Reest A; Balleine BW; Menéndez JA; Siviy SM, 1989, 'Effects of ethanol and tertiary butanol on blood glucose levels and body temperature of rats', Alcohol, 6, pp. 183 - 187, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0741-8329(89)90016-5

Healey PA; McGregor IS; Balleine BW; Atrens DM, 1989, 'Environment-specific conditioning produced by electrical stimulation of the lateral hypothalamus', Physiology and Behavior, 46, pp. 907 - 912, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0031-9384(89)90057-7

Conference Papers

Perkes IE; Kassem MS; Hazell PL; Paxinos G; Mitchell PB; Balleine BW; Eapen V, 2021, 'OCD: A META-REVIEW OF PATHOPHYSIOLOGY', in AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY, SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, pp. 48 - 49, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000648619900113&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Dezfouli A; Morris R; Ramos F; Dayan P; Balleine BW, 2018, 'Integrated accounts of behavioral and neuroimaging data using flexible recurrent neural network models', in Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, Curran Associates Inc, Montréal, Canada, pp. 4228 - 4237, presented at 32nd International Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, Montréal, Canada, 03 December 2018 - 08 December 2018

Griffiths KR; Morris RW; Dezfouli A; Lagopoulos J; Balleine BW, 2015, 'Neural Correlates of Choice Strategies Contributing to Poor Causal Awareness in Bipolar Disorder', in BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY, ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, CANADA, Toronto, pp. 70S - 71S, presented at 70th Annual Scientific Convention and Meeting of the Society-of-Biological-Psychiatry on Stress, Emotion, Neurodevelopment and Psychopathology, CANADA, Toronto, 14 May 2015 - 16 May 2015, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000352207500181&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Griffiths KR; Dezfouli A; Guastella AJ; Morris RW; Hickie IB; Balleine BW, 2013, 'Dissociable Decision-Making Deficits in Major Depressive Disorder and Bipolar Disorder: A Cognitive Modeling Approach', in BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY, ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, CA, San Francisco, pp. 167S - 167S, presented at 68th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Society-of-Biological-Psychiatry, CA, San Francisco, 16 May 2013 - 18 May 2013, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000318671800513&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Balleine BW; Doya K; O'Doherty J; Sakagami M, 2007, 'Current trends in decision making', in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, pp. xi - xv, http://dx.doi.org/10.1196/annals.1390.2226

Balleine BW; Ostlund SB, 2007, 'Still at the choice-point: Action selection and initiation in instrumental conditioning', in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, pp. 147 - 171, http://dx.doi.org/10.1196/annals.1390.006

Ostlund SB; Balleine BW, 2007, 'The contribution of orbitofrontal cortex to action selection', in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, pp. 174 - 192, http://dx.doi.org/10.1196/annals.1401.033

Balleine BW, 2005, 'Neural bases of food-seeking: Affect, arousal and reward in corticostriatolimbic circuits', in Physiology and Behavior, pp. 717 - 730, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2005.08.061

Yin HH; Knowlton BJ; Balleine BW, 2002, 'From habits to actions: Dorsolateral striatum lesions alter the content of learning', in Iconip 2002 Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Neural Information Processing Computational Intelligence for the E Age, pp. 1579 - 1581, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICONIP.2002.1202887

Balleine BW; Dickinson A, 1998, 'Goal-directed instrumental action: Contingency and incentive learning and their cortical substrates', in Neuropharmacology, pp. 407 - 419, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0028-3908(98)00033-1

Conference Abstracts

Balleine BW, 2018, 'DRUG-INDUCED DYSFUNCTION IN DORSOMEDIAL STRIATUM AND IN DECISION-MAKING', in ALCOHOLISM-CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH, WILEY, JAPAN, Kyoto, Vol. 42, pp. 105A - 105A, presented at 19th World Congress of International-Society-for-Biomedical-Research-on-Alcoholism (ISBRA), JAPAN, Kyoto, 09 September 2018 - 13 September 2018, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000443221300368&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Bertran-Gonzalez J; Goetz J; Balleine BW; Matamales M, 2015, 'Deficient corticostriatal activity in ageing shortens patterns of goal-directed action', in JOURNAL OF NEUROCHEMISTRY, WILEY-BLACKWELL, AUSTRALIA, Cairns, Vol. 134, pp. 369 - 369, presented at 25th Biennial Meeting of the International-Society-for-Neurochemistry Jointly with the 13th Meeting of the Asian-Pacific-Society-for-Neurochemistry in Conjunction with the 35th Meeting of the Australasian-Neuroscience-Society, AUSTRALIA, Cairns, 23 August 2015 - 27 August 2015, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000360206300947&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1

Working Papers

Doran J; Pradier L; Nave G; Balleine B; Payzan E, 2020, Friend or Foe: The Influence of Ambient Sound on Risk Perception, http://dx.doi.org, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3422762

Preprints

Payzan-LeNestour E; Yang Y; Thelaus S; Balleine B, 2026, Stubborn by design: When past rewards keep agents betting on known losses , http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6731959

Soegyono O; Pepin E; Leung BK; Chieng BC; Balleine BW; Laurent V, 2025, The influence of nucleus accumbens shell D1 and D2 neurons on outcome-specific Pavlovian instrumental transfer, http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/elife.107566.3

Soegyono O; Pepin E; Leung BK; Chieng BC; Balleine BW; Laurent V, 2025, The influence of nucleus accumbens shell D1 and D2 neurons on outcome-specific Pavlovian instrumental transfer, http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/elife.107566.2

Soegyono O; Pepin E; Leung BK; Chieng BC; Balleine BW; Laurent V, 2025, The influence of nucleus accumbens shell D1 and D2 neurons on outcome-specific Pavlovian instrumental transfer, http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/elife.107566.1

Payzan-LeNestour E; Yang Y; Thelaus S; Balleine B, 2025, Stubborn by design: When past rewards keep agents betting on known losses, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5041683

Quang H; Le Heron C; Balleine B; Nguyen T-V; Nguyen T-Q; Nguyen M-N; Kumfor F; McDonald S, 2023, Reduced Sensitivity to Background Reward Underlies Apathy after Traumatic Brain Injury: Insights from an Ecological Foraging Framework, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4356809

Becchi S; Buson A; Balleine B, 2021, Inhibition of Vascular Adhesion Protein 1 Protects Dopamine Neurons From the Effects of Acute Inflammation and Restores Habit Learning in the Striatum, http://dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-691589/v1

Turner K; Balleine B; Bradfield L, 2020, Does disrupting the Orbitofrontal Cortex alter sensitivity to punishment? A potential mechanism of compulsivity, http://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/cwvmx

Morse A; Leung B; Heath E; Bertran-Gonzalez J; Pepin E; Chieng B; Balleine B; Laurent V, 2019, A Novel GPCR-Based Memory Process is Necessary for the Influence of Predictive Learning on Choice, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3472044

Fisher SD; Ferguson LA; Bertran-Gonzalez J; Balleine BW, Amygdala-cortical control of striatal plasticity drives the acquisition of goal-directed action, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2020.02.28.970616

Becchi S; Chieng B; Bradfield LA; Capellán R; Leung BK; Balleine BW, Cognitive effects of thalamostriatal degeneration are ameliorated by normalizing striatal cholinergic activity, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2022.08.25.505358

Becchi S; Burton C; Tsoukalas M; Bowring J; Balleine B; Mor D, CRF receptor type 1 modulates the nigrostriatal dopamine projection and facilitates cognitive flexibility after acute and chronic stress, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2022.10.26.513963

Matamales M; McGovern AE; Mi JD; Mazzone SB; Balleine BW; Bertran-Gonzalez J, D1 and D2 systems converge in the striatum to update goal-directed learning, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/780346

pool E; Gera R; Fransen A; Perez OD; Cremer A; Aleksic M; Tanwisuth S; Quail S; Ceceli AO; Manfredi D; Nave G; Tricomi E; Balleine B; Schonberg T; Schwabe L; O'Doherty J, Determining the effects of training duration on the behavioral expression of habitual control in humans: a multi-laboratory investigation, http://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/z756h

Abiero AR; Gladding JM; Iredale JA; Drury HR; Manning EE; Dayas CV; Dhungana A; Ganesan K; Turner K; Becchi S; Kendig MD; Nolan C; Balleine B; Castorina A; Cole L; Clemens KJ; Bradfield LA, Dorsomedial striatal neuroinflammation causes excessive goal-directed action control by disrupting astrocyte function, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2024.10.24.620154

Ferguson LA; Matamales M; Balleine BW; Bertran-Gonzalez J, Dynamic adaptation of sequential action benefits from cortico-basal ganglia-related temporal variability, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2022.03.28.486040

Payzan-LeNestour E; Balleine B; Doran J; Nave G; Pradier L, Friend or Foe: The Influence of Ambient Sound on Risk Perception, http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3422762

Dhungana A; Becchi S; Leake J; Morris G; Avgan N; Balleine BW; Vissel B; Bradfield LA, Goal-directed action is transiently impaired in an hAPP-J20 mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease, and in aging male mice regardless of genotype, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2022.07.25.501480

Bradfield LA; Leung BK; Boldt S; Balleine BW, Goal-directed action transiently depends on action space, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/783308

Leung BK; Merlin S; Walker AK; Lawther AJ; Paxinos G; Eapen V; Clarke R; Balleine BW; Furlong TM, Immp2l knockdown increases stimulus-driven instrumental behaviour but does not alter goal-directed learning or neuron density in cortico-striatal circuits in a mouse model of Tourette syndrome and autism spectrum disorder, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2023.02.12.528225

Dezfouli A; Morris R; Ramos F; Dayan P; Balleine BW, Integrated accounts of behavioral and neuroimaging data using flexible recurrent neural network models, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/328849

Peak JN; Liang S; Lau BK; Turner KM; Leung BK; Balleine BW, Intratelencephalic neurons in the medial prefrontal cortex mediate the acquisition of goal-directed actions, http://dx.doi.org/10.64898/2026.07.02.736246

Dezfouli A; Balleine BW, Learning the structure of the world: The adaptive nature of state-space and action representations in multi-stage decision-making, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/211664

Ma C; Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P; Roughley S; Vissel B; Balleine BW; Killcross S; Bradfield LA, Medial Orbitofrontal Cortex Regulates Instrumental Conditioned Punishment, but not Pavlovian Conditioned Fear, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2020.05.12.092205

Dezfouli A; Griffiths K; Ramos F; Dayan P; Balleine BW, Models that learn how humans learn: the case of depression and bipolar disorders, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/285221

Dezfouli A; Balleine BW; Nock R, Optimal Response Vigor and Choice Under Non-stationary Outcome Values, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/106500

Crimmins B; McNulty M; Laurent V; Hart G; Balleine B, Response-independent outcome presentations weakens the instrumental response-outcome association, http://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/c83kx

Peak J; Chieng B; Hart G; Balleine BW, Striatal direct and indirect pathway neurons differentially control the encoding and updating of goal-directed learning, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2020.02.18.955385

Hart G; Burton TJ; Nolan CR; Balleine BW, Striatal dopamine encodes the relationship between actions and reward, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2022.01.31.478585

Morris RW; Dezfouli A; Griffiths KR; Le Pelley ME; Balleine BW, The algorithmic neuroanatomy of action-outcome learning, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/137851

Perkes IE; Kassem MS; Hazell PL; Paxinos G; Mitchell PB; Eapen V; Balleine BW, The anatomy of obsessive-compulsive disorder, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2022.10.06.22280808

Roy DJ; Burton TJ; Balleine BW, The control of goal-directed actions by nutrient-specific appetites and rewards, http://dx.doi.org/10.64898/2026.02.19.706921

Soegyono O; Pepin E; Leung BK; Chieng BC; Balleine BW; Laurent V, The influence of nucleus accumbens shell D1 and D2 neurons on outcome-specific Pavlovian instrumental transfer, http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2025.05.26.656228

Soegyono O; Pepin E; Leung BK; Chieng B; Balleine BW; Laurent V, The influence of nucleus accumbens shell D1 and D2 neurons on outcome-specific Pavlovian instrumental transfer, http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/elife.107566

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