Richard Beninger, Queen's University

Research

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Latest funding

Locomotor Activity Monitors for Rats
NSERC · 2017 · Principal investigator
$52,766
Neurohistochemistry Processing and Imaging Suite
NSERC · 2016 · Principal investigator
$76,325
The role of brain neurotransmitters in the control of behaviour
NSERC · 2015 · Principal investigator
$165,000

All 14 grants and awards

No publications available.

Locomotor Activity Monitors for Rats

Principal investigatorNSERC2017Research Tools and Instruments

Principal investigators: Beninger, Richard

$52,766

Neurohistochemistry Processing and Imaging Suite

Principal investigatorNSERC2016Research Tools and Instruments

Principal investigators: Beninger, Richard

$76,325

The role of brain neurotransmitters in the control of behaviour

Principal investigatorNSERC2015Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Beninger, Richard

$165,000

2009 Cage Washer for Queen's Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council-funded Research in Psychology

Principal investigatorNSERC2010Research Tools and Instruments - Category 1 (<$150,000)

Principal investigators: Beninger, Richard

$150,000

Electrophysiology workstations to study the cellular and molecular bases of behaviours

Co-investigatorNSERC2010Research Tools and Instruments - Category 1 (<$150,000)

Principal investigators: Olmstead, Mary

$58,100

The role of brain neurotransmitters in the control of behaviour

Principal investigatorNSERC2010Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Beninger, Richard

$355,000

Probing the role of dopamine in co-morbid pathological gambling and Parkinson's disease: Behavioural pharmacology, electrophysiology, neuroimaging, and genetics.

Principal investigatorCIHR2008Emerging Team Grant: Co-morbidity of brain disorders & other health problems-LOI

Principal investigators: Zack, Martin H; Beninger, Richard J; Kennedy, James L; Kish, Stephen J; Segalowitz, Sidney J

Keywords: Amphetamine; Behavioural Pharmacology; Dopamine Agonist; Electrophysiology; Parkinson'S Disease; Pathological Gambling; Positron Emission Tomography; Pramipexole; Reward Seeking; Risk-Taking

Rodent operant test chambers

Co-investigatorNSERC2006Research Tools and Instruments - Category 1 (<$150,000)

Principal investigators: Olmstead, Mary

$55,343

The role of brain neurotransmitters in the control of behaviour

Principal investigatorNSERC2005Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Beninger, Richard

$209,045

Rodent housing infrastructure

Co-investigatorNSERC2004Research Tools and Instruments - Category 1 (<$150,000)

Principal investigators: Dringenberg, Hans

$10,250

From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.

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