Research
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Latest papers
Audiovisual cues must be predictable and win-paired to drive risky choice.
eLife · 2026 · senior author
Exploring preferences for variable delays over fixed delays to high-value food rewards as a model of food-seeking behaviours in humans.
Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2019
Latest funding
- $100,000
Investigating the neural and neurochemical processes regulating preference for a highly cued gambling game using a novel rat decision-making model
CIHR · 2023 · Nominated PI
- $102,000
The effects of arousal and noradrenergic signalling on decision making
NSERC · 2023 · Principal investigator
- $150,000
Advanced Expansion Microscopy Imaging System for Brain Microglia
NSERC · 2021 · Co-investigator
2 publications.
Audiovisual cues must be predictable and win-paired to drive risky choice.
Hathaway BA, Kim DR, Malhas SBA, Hrelja KM, Kerker L, Hynes TJ, Harris C, Langdon A, Winstanley C
Exploring preferences for variable delays over fixed delays to high-value food rewards as a model of food-seeking behaviours in humans.
Stokes LG, Davies A, Lattimore P, Winstanley C, Rogers RD
Investigating the neural and neurochemical processes regulating preference for a highly cued gambling game using a novel rat decision-making model
Principal investigators: Winstanley, Catharine A; Kryskow, Pamela
Keywords: Animal Model (Rats); Decision Making; Frontal Cortex; Gambling; Psilocybin; Sex Differences
The effects of arousal and noradrenergic signalling on decision making
Principal investigators: Winstanley, Catharine
Keywords: noradrenaline; decision making; arousal; rat; pharmacology; chemogenetics; computational modeling; frontal cortex; impulsivity; learning
Advanced Expansion Microscopy Imaging System for Brain Microglia
Principal investigators: Ciernia, Annie
Investigating the role of the orbitofrontal cortex in establishing inflexible patterns of risky behaviour on a rodent assay of cue-enhanced risky decision making
Principal investigators: Hathaway, Brett
Keywords: Cognitive Flexibility; Habit Formation; Neuropsychopharmacology; Pathological Gambling; Reward-Paired Cues; Risky Decision Making
Risky decision making as a cause, consequence and treatment target for addiction.
Principal investigators: Winstanley, Catharine A
Keywords: Addiction; Behavioural Pharmacology; Cocaine; Decision Making; Dopamine; Dreadds; Gambling; Individual Differences; Noradrenaline; Rat
The effects of reward cues on risky decision making: the role of dopamine and relevance to addiction
Principal investigators: Winstanley, Catharine A
Keywords: Addiction; Cognition; Decision Making; Dopamine; Eye-Tracking; Gambling; Neuropsychology; Pet (Positron Emission Topography)
Deciphering decision making: exploring the interactions between neural and neurochemical systems underlying the evaluation versus employment of cognitive effort in rats
Principal investigators: Winstanley, Catharine
Multiplex immunoassay electrochemiluminescence system and touchscreen chambers for examining signally molecules related to cognition.
Principal investigators: Galea, Liisa
Neuroinflammation at the nexus of stimulant addiction, impulsivity and traumatic brain injury
Principal investigators: Winstanley, Catharine A
Keywords: Addiction; Behavioural Neuroscience; Cocaine; Cytokine; Neuroinflammation; Rodent Models; Traumatic Brain Injury
Understanding the risks of risky choice: poor cost/benefit decision making as a cause, consequence and treatment target for addiction?
Principal investigators: Winstanley, Catharine A
Keywords: Addiction; Animal Models; Cognitive Behaviour; Conditioned Reinforcement; Decision-Making; Dopamine; Micro-Pet; Neuropsychopharmacology; Operant Conditioning; Serotonin
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
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