By Scientia Professor Bernard Balleine

Journal articles

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

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

pool E; Gera R; Fransen A; Perez OD; Cremer A; Aleksic M; Tanwisuth S; Quail S; Ceceli A; Manfredi D; Nave G; Tricomi E; Balleine B; Schonberg T; Schwabe L; O'Doherty J, 2021, '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

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

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

Fisher S; Ferguson L; Bertran-Gonzalez J; Balleine B, 2020, 'Amygdala-cortical control of striatal plasticity drives the acquisition of goal-directed action', , http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2020.02.28.970616

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

Ma C; Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P; Roughley S; Vissel B; Balleine B; Killcross S; Bradfield L, 2020, 'Medial Orbitofrontal Cortex Regulates Instrumental Conditioned Punishment, but not Pavlovian Conditioned Fear', , http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/2020.05.12.092205

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.', Cereb Cortex Commun, 1, pp. tgaa039, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/texcom/tgaa039

Peak J; Chieng B; Hart G; Balleine B, 2020, '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

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

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

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

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