Education

Ph.D of Behavioural Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, UK, 2004

Current position

Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia

Publications (since 2015)

1. Cocker, P. J., Tremblay, M., Kaur, S. and Winstanley, C. A. (2017). Chronic administration of the dopamine D2/3 agonist ropinirole invigorates performance of a rodent slot machine task, potentially indicative of less distractible or compulsive-like gambling behaviour. Psychopharmacology (Berl) 234(1): 137-153.
2. Tremblay, M., Silveira, M. M., Kaur, S., Hosking, J. G., Adams, W. K., Baunez, C. and Winstanley, C. A. (2017). Chronic D2/3 agonist ropinirole treatment increases preference for uncertainty in rats regardless of baseline choice patterns. Eur J Neurosci 45(1): 159-166.
3. Winstanley, C. A. and Floresco, S. B. (2016). Deciphering Decision Making: Variation in Animal Models of Effort- and Uncertainty-Based Choice Reveals Distinct Neural Circuitries Underlying Core Cognitive Processes. J Neurosci 36(48): 12069-12079.
4. Young, J. W., Winstanley, C. A., Brady, A. M. and Hall, F. S. (2016). Research Domain Criteria versus DSM V: How does this debate affect attempts to model corticostriatal dysfunction in animals? Neurosci Biobehav Rev.
5. Vonder Haar, C. and Winstanley, C. A. (2016). Minor Functional Deficits in Basic Response Patterns for Reinforcement after Frontal Traumatic Brain Injury in Rats. J Neurotrauma 33(20): 1892-1900.
6. Silveira, M. M., Adams, W. K., Morena, M., Hill, M. N. and Winstanley, C. A. (2016). Delta9-Tetrahydrocannabinol decreases willingness to exert cognitive effort in male rats. J Psychiatry Neurosci 41(6): 150363.
7. Vonder Haar, C., Lam, F. C., Adams, W. K., Riparip, L. K., Kaur, S., Muthukrishna, M., Rosi, S. and Winstanley, C. A. (2016). Frontal Traumatic Brain Injury in Rats Causes Long-Lasting Impairments in Impulse Control That Are Differentially Sensitive to Pharmacotherapeutics and Associated with Chronic Neuroinflammation. ACS Chem Neurosci 7(11): 1531-1542.
8. Tremblay, M. and Winstanley, C. A. (2016). Anticonvulsant medications attenuate amphetamine-induced deficits in behavioral inhibition but not decision making under risk on a rat gambling task. Behav Brain Res 314: 143-151.
9. Winstanley, C. A. and Clark, L. (2016). Translational Models of Gambling-Related Decision-Making. Curr Top Behav Neurosci 28: 93-120.
10. Cocker, P. J., Lin, M. Y., Barrus, M. M., Le Foll, B. and Winstanley, C. A. (2016). The agranular and granular insula differentially contribute to gambling-like behavior on a rat slot machine task: effects of inactivation and local infusion of a dopamine D4 agonist on reward expectancy. Psychopharmacology (Berl) 233(17): 3135-3147.
11. Cocker, P. J., Vonder Haar, C. and Winstanley, C. A. (2016). Elucidating the role of D4 receptors in mediating attributions of salience to incentive stimuli on Pavlovian conditioned approach and conditioned reinforcement paradigms. Behav Brain Res 312: 55-63.
12. Ferland, J. N. and Winstanley, C. A. (2016). Risk-preferring rats make worse decisions and show increased incubation of craving after cocaine self-administration. Addict Biol.
13. Barrus, M. M., Hosking, J. G., Cocker, P. J. and Winstanley, C. A. (2016). Inactivation of the orbitofrontal cortex reduces irrational choice on a rodent Betting Task. Neuroscience.
14. Barrus, M. M. and Winstanley, C. A. (2016). Dopamine D3 Receptors Modulate the Ability of Win-Paired Cues to Increase Risky Choice in a Rat Gambling Task. J Neurosci 36(3): 785-794.
15. Cocker, P. J., Hosking, J. G., Murch, W. S., Clark, L. and Winstanley, C. A. (2016). Activation of dopamine D4 receptors within the anterior cingulate cortex enhances the erroneous expectation of reward on a rat slot machine task. Neuropharmacology 105: 186-195.
16. Silveira, M. M., Murch, W. S., Clark, L. and Winstanley, C. A. (2016). Chronic atomoxetine treatment during adolescence does not influence decision-making on a rodent gambling task, but does modulate amphetamine's effect on impulsive action in adulthood. Behav Pharmacol 27(4): 350-363.
17. Barrus, M. M., Cherkasova, M. and Winstanley, C. A. (2016). Skewed by Cues? The Motivational Role of Audiovisual Stimuli in Modelling Substance Use and Gambling Disorders. Curr Top Behav Neurosci 27: 507-529.
18. Hosking, J. G., Cocker, P. J. and Winstanley, C. A. (2016). Prefrontal Cortical Inactivations Decrease Willingness to Expend Cognitive Effort on a Rodent Cost/Benefit Decision-Making Task. Cereb Cortex 26(4): 1529-1538.
19. Adams, W. K., Sussman, J. L., Kaur, S., D'Souza A, M., Kieffer, T. J. and Winstanley, C. A. (2015). Long-term, calorie-restricted intake of a high-fat diet in rats reduces impulse control and ventral striatal D2 receptor signalling - two markers of addiction vulnerability. Eur J Neurosci 42(12): 3095-3104.
20. Zeeb, F. D., Baarendse, P. J., Vanderschuren, L. J. and Winstanley, C. A. (2015). Inactivation of the prelimbic or infralimbic cortex impairs decision-making in the rat gambling task. Psychopharmacology (Berl) 232(24): 4481-4491.
21. Di Ciano, P., Pushparaj, A., Kim, A., Hatch, J., Masood, T., Ramzi, A., Khaled, M. A., Boileau, I., Winstanley, C. A. and Le Foll, B. (2015). The Impact of Selective Dopamine D2, D3 and D4 Ligands on the Rat Gambling Task. PLoS One 10(9): e0136267.
22. Pushparaj, A., Kim, A. S., Musiol, M., Zangen, A., Daskalakis, Z. J., Zack, M., Winstanley, C. A. and Le Foll, B. (2015). Differential Involvement of the Agranular vs Granular Insular Cortex in the Acquisition and Performance of Choice Behavior in a Rodent Gambling Task. Neuropsychopharmacology 40(12): 2832-2842.
23. Hamilton, K. R., Mitchell, M. R., Wing, V. C., Balodis, I. M., Bickel, W. K., Fillmore, M., Lane, S. D., Lejuez, C. W., Littlefield, A. K., Luijten, M., Mathias, C. W., Mitchell, S. H., Napier, T. C., Reynolds, B., Schutz, C. G., Setlow, B., Sher, K. J., Swann, A. C., Tedford, S. E., White, M. J., Winstanley, C. A., Yi, R., Potenza, M. N. and Moeller, F. G. (2015). Choice impulsivity: Definitions, measurement issues, and clinical implications. Personal Disord 6(2): 182-198.
24. Barrus, M. M., Hosking, J. G., Zeeb, F. D., Tremblay, M. and Winstanley, C. A. (2015). Disadvantageous decision-making on a rodent gambling task is associated with increased motor impulsivity in a population of male rats. J Psychiatry Neurosci 40(2): 108-117.
25. Silveira, M. M., Malcolm, E., Shoaib, M. and Winstanley, C. A. (2015). Scopolamine and amphetamine produce similar decision-making deficits on a rat gambling task via independent pathways. Behav Brain Res 281: 86-95.
26. Cocker, P. J. and Winstanley, C. A. (2015). Irrational beliefs, biases and gambling: exploring the role of animal models in elucidating vulnerabilities for the development of pathological gambling. Behav Brain Res 279: 259-273.
27. Hosking, J. G., Floresco, S. B. and Winstanley, C. A. (2015). Dopamine antagonism decreases willingness to expend physical, but not cognitive, effort: a comparison of two rodent cost/benefit decision-making tasks. Neuropsychopharmacology 40(4): 1005-1015.