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Research
Latest funding
- $921,826
Effects of maternal sucrose consumption on offspring hormones, neural circuits, and behaviour in rats
CIHR · 2026 · Co-investigator
- $891,226
Prefrontal-subcortical network mechanisms underlying risky decision making
CIHR · 2026 · Nominated PI
- $100,000
Prefrontal-subcortical network mechanisms underlying risky decision making
CIHR · 2024 · Nominated PI
Effects of maternal sucrose consumption on offspring hormones, neural circuits, and behaviour in rats
Principal investigators: Soma, Kiran K
Keywords: Endocrinology; Neuroscience; Nutrition
Prefrontal-subcortical network mechanisms underlying risky decision making
Principal investigators: Floresco, Stanley B
Keywords: Amygdala; Chemogenetics; Decision Making; Dopamine; Fiber Photometry; Nucleus Accumbens; Orbitofrontal Cortex; Reward Processing; Striatum
Prefrontal-subcortical network mechanisms underlying risky decision making
Principal investigators: Floresco, Stanley B
Keywords: Amygdala; Decision Making; Dopamine; Nucleus Accumbens; Orbitofrontal Cortex; Reward Processing; Striatum
CRF modulation of motivation, decision making and dopamine transmission
Principal investigators: Floresco, Stanley B
Keywords: Corticotropin Releasing Factor; Decision Making; Dopamine; Motivation; Stress
Sex differences in Neural and Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Negative Cognitive Bias
Principal investigators: Galea, Liisa A
Keywords: Cognition; Cytokines; Depression; Hippocampus; Limbic System; Microglia; Neurogenesis; Neuroinflammation; Sex Differences; Stress
Imaging neurochemical and neural signalling with fiber photometry
Principal investigators: Floresco, Stan
Neurosteroid regulation of executive function
Principal investigators: Soma, Kiran K
Keywords: Behaviour; Neuroendocrinology
Effects of added sucrose on hormones, neural circuits, and behaviour
Principal investigators: Soma, Kiran K
Keywords: Endocrinology; Neuroscience; Nutrition
Prefrontal-subcortical circuitry underlying cognitive flexibility
Principal investigators: Floresco, Stan
Prefrontal-subcortical network mechanisms underlying risky decision making.
Principal investigators: Floresco, Stanley B
Keywords: Amygdala; Behavioral Pharmacology; Chemogenetics; Decision Making; Dopamine; Lateral Habenula; Optogenetics; Prefrontal Cortex
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