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Shimon Amir, PhD, FRSC

Professor of Psychology, Concordia University

circadian rhythms, clock genes, animal models, motivation, dopamine

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Andreas Arvanitogiannis, PhD

Associate Professor of Psychology, Concordia University

motivation, reward, psychostimulants, adolescence, exercise

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Rosemary Bagot, PhD

Assistant Professor of Psychology, McGill University, Primary Investigator, Ludmer Centre for Neuroinformatics & Mental Health

stress, individual differences, animal models of psychiatric disorders, circuit function, transcriptional networks, optogenetics, fibre photometry, electrophysiology

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Wayne Brake, PhD

Professor of Psychology, Concordia University, Principal of the Science College

estrogen, learning and memory, female cognition, dopamine

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Jonathan Britt, PhD

Assistant Professor of Psychology, McGill University

reinforcement learning, circuit mapping, dopamine, nucleus accumbens, optogenetics

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Andrew Chapman, PhD

Professor of Psychology, Concordia University

learning and memory, electrophysiology, neocortex, hippocampal formation, synapse

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Paul Clarke, PhD

Professor of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, McGill University

addiction, neuropharmacology, nicotine, ultrasonic vocalizations, fibre photometry, optogenetics

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Richard Courtemanche, PhD

Associate Professor and Chair of Health, Kinesiology & Applied Physiology, Concordia University

neurophysiology, oscillations, movement, synchrony, population coding

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Thanh Dang-Vu, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Health, Kinesiology & Applied Physiology, Concordia University, Concordia University Research Chair in Sleep, Neuroimaging and Cognitive Health

sleep, brain oscillations, neuroimaging, cognition, insomnia

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Guillem Esber, PhD

Associate Professor of Psychology, Concordia University

neural bases of learning and memory, reward learning, associative learning, animal models of psychiatric disorders, in-vivo electrophysiological recording, optogenetics

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Stephanie Fulton, PhD

Associate Professor of Nutrition, Université de Montréal

reward, feeding, obesity, running, leptin, dopamine, lipids, depression

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Matthew Gardner, PhD

Assistant Professor of Psychology, Concordia University

behavioral electrophysiology, decision making, learning and memory, sensory systems, optogenetics

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Mihaela Iordanova, PhD

Associate Professor of Psychology, Concordia University, Canada Research Chair in Behavioral Neuroscience, CSBN Co-director

learning & memory, prediction error, behavioral electrophysiology, dopamine, fear & reward

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Saïd Kourrich, PhD

Associate Professor of Physiology, Université du Québec à Montréal

psychostimulant addiction and comorbid disorders, learning and memory, neuronal excitability, experience-dependent neuronal plasticity, cellular electrophysiology, protein trafficking

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Marco Leyton, PhD

Professor of Psychiatry, McGill University, William Dawson Scholar

addictions, mood and motivational states, neuroplasticity, sensitization, conditioning

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Jon Sakata, PhD

Associate Professor of Biology, McGill University

vocal communication, auditory learning, songbird, social influences, neuroethology

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Anna Samaha, PhD

Professor of Pharmacology & Physiology, Université de Montréal

addiction, cocaine, reward, motivation, drug self-administration, optogenetics

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Uri Shalev, PhD

Professor of Psychology, Concordia University, Canada Research Chair in Neurobiology of Drug Abuse, CSBN Co-director

drug abuse, relapse, animal models, behavioral neurobiology, mental disorders

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Peter Shizgal, PhD

Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Concordia University

reward, decision making, neuroeconomics, dopamine, optogenetics

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Former CSBN members

Zalman Amit, PhD

Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Concordia University
Studies on central mechanisms of ethanol reward, and genetic predispositions for the ingestion of ethanol.

Nadia Chaudhri, PhD

Professor of Psychology, Concordia University
Alcohol abuse, relapse, neuropharmacology, pavlovian conditioning, optogenetics.

Yogita Chudasama, PhD

Principal Investigator and Chief of Behavioral Neuroscience Section, NIMH
Behavioral, neuroanatomical, psychopharmacological, and molecular studies of cognitive function with a particular emphasis on the prefrontal cortex, thalamic nuclei, and temporal lobe.

David Mumby, PhD

Professor of Psychology, Concordia University
Object recognition, spatial memory, fear learning, context memory, neural systems.

Pierre-Paul Rompré, PhD

Professor of Neurosciences, Université de Montréal
Amino acids, drugs of abuse, monoamines, reward, neuropeptides.

Jane Stewart, PhD, OC, FRSC

Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Concordia University
Behavioral and neurochemical studies of conditioning and sensitization to stimulant and opioid drugs and their role in drug self-administration and relapse. Studies of the effects of ovarian hormones on behavioral and neurochemical responses to drugs, stress, and brain injury. Jane Stewart's CV

Roy Wise, PhD, FRSC

Senior Investigator and Chief of Behavioral Neuroscience Section, NIDA
Role of dopamine systems in brain mechanisms of motivation and addiction.

Barbara Woodside, PhD

Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Concordia University
Behavioral and neuroendocrinological studies of maternal behavior, food intake, diet selection and their relationship to reproductive state.

Center for Studies in Behavioral Neurobiology

Groupe de recherche en neurobiologie comportementale

Center for Studies in Behavioral Neurobiology

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Researchers

Shimon Amir, PhD, FRSC

Andreas Arvanitogiannis, PhD

Rosemary Bagot, PhD

Wayne Brake, PhD

Jonathan Britt, PhD

Andrew Chapman, PhD

Paul Clarke, PhD

Richard Courtemanche, PhD

Thanh Dang-Vu, MD, PhD

Guillem Esber, PhD

Stephanie Fulton, PhD

Matthew Gardner, PhD

Mihaela Iordanova, PhD

Saïd Kourrich, PhD

Marco Leyton, PhD

Jon Sakata, PhD

Anna Samaha, PhD

Uri Shalev, PhD

Peter Shizgal, PhD

Former CSBN members

Zalman Amit, PhD

Nadia Chaudhri, PhD

Yogita Chudasama, PhD

David Mumby, PhD

Pierre-Paul Rompré, PhD

Jane Stewart, PhD, OC, FRSC

Roy Wise, PhD, FRSC

Barbara Woodside, PhD