Al-Hasani, Ream (Washington University) Endogenous opioid circuits in motivated behaviors

Alhadeff, Amber (Monell Center and University of Pennsylvania) Neural control of motivated behavior, gut-brain signaling

Aponte, Yeka (NIDA) Neuronal mechanisms regulating food reward and drug addiction.

Bagot, Rosemary (McGill University) Circuit and molecular mechanisms of altered brain function underlying depression

Beck, Anne (Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin; Dept. of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, CCM, Berlin) Neurobiological correlates of emotional, motivational and cognitive processes in psychiatric disorders

Bellone, Camilla (University of Geneva) Neuronal circuits underlying social behaviour in physiological conditions and in psychiatric diseases

Boettiger, Charlotte (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) Characterizing the neurobiology of neurocognitive abnormalities associated with addiction

Borgland, Stephanie (Univ. of Calgary) Synaptic plasticity in circuits underlying motivated behaviour

Bradshaw, Heather (Indiana University) Cannabinoid-related lipid signaling in the CNS

Brown, Robyn (Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health) Neurobiological basis of addiction and pathological over-eating

Calipari, Erin (Vanderbilt University) Circuit and molecular mechanisms of reward learning and motivation

Carelli, Regina M. (The University of North Carolina) Neurobiological mechanisms of decision making, motivated behaviors and drug addiction.

Chaudhri, Nadia (Concordia University) The neural basis of addiction and learning

Clemens, Kelly (University of New South Wales) Behavioural neurobiology of nicotine addiction

Clopath, Claudia (Imperial College) Computational approaches to learning and memory

Collins, Anne (UC Berkeley) Human learning, decision-making and executive functions

Creed, Meaghan (University of Maryland) Synaptic transmission and plasticity in the reward system

Flagel, Shelly (University of Michigan) Neural circuitry underlying individual differences in reward learning and addiction liability

Fowler, Christie (UC Urvine) Neurobiological mechanisms underlying motivated behaviors and behavioral deficits associated with neuropsychiatric disorders

Gore, Felicity (Stanford) Neural circuits mediating motivated behavior

Gremel, Christina (University of California, San Diego) Behavioral and neural mechanisms of decision-making and alterations in addiction

Gu, Xiaosi (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai) Modeling subjectivity in addiction and psychiatric disorders

Hakimi, Shabnam (Duke University) Cognitive neuroscience of motivated learning and decision making with a focus on self regulation and behavior change

Heilbronner, Sarah (University of Minnesota) Using connectomics to understand the neural circuitry for motivation and decision-making

Holly, Elizabeth (University of Pennsylvania) Effects of stress on goal-directed behavior and decision-making and underlying neural circuits/systems

Hurd, Yasmin (UCLA) Cannabinoids and addiction

Izquierdo, Alicia (UCLA) Neurobiological mechanisms of reward learning

Janak, Patricia (Johns Hopkins) Behavioral and neural mechanisms of associative learning

Jones, Susan (University of Cambridge) Channel kinetics of reward circuits

Kaun, Karla  (Brown University) Mechanisms of memory, reward and addiction in the fruit fly

Lerner, Talia (Northwestern) Neuromodulatory circuits regulating reward learning and motivation

McElligott, Zoe (UNC Chapel Hill) Studying circuits and plasticity that underlie the development and manifestation of psychiatric illness

Morales, Marisela (NIH) Neurobiology of reward processing and drug addiction.

Murray, Betsy (NIMH) neural basis of learning, memory, emotion and response selection

Murray, Jennifer (University of Guelph) Behavioural and neural mechanisms underlying interoceptive and motivational processing in addiction

Nautiyal, Kate (Dartmouth College) Serotonin modulation of the neural circuits underlying impulsive behavior.

Niv, Yael (Princeton) Reinforcement learning, decision making, fMRI & modeling

O’Dell, Laura (University of Texas at El Paso) Neural mechanisms that mediate addiction to drugs of abuse

Perrotti, Linda I (University of Texas at Arlington) Neurobiology of sex differences in drug addiction

Polter, Abigail (George Washington University) Synaptic and peptidergic regulation of monoamine circuits

Rajadhyaksha, Anjali (Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences) Neuronal voltage-gated L-type Ca2 channel subunits role in experience-dependent plasticity

Rich, Erin (Mount Sinai School of Medicine) Neurophysiology and Decision Making

Richard, Jocelyn  (University of Minnesota) Neural circuits underlying motivated behavior and addiction

Rolls, Asya (Israel Institute of Technology) Neuronal basis of brain-immune interactions

Sangha, Susan (Indiana University School of medicine) Neural circuitry of fear, safety and reward learning.

Seo, Hyojung (Yale Univ) Prefrontal mechanisms of decision-making and reinforcement learning

Steinberg, Elizabeth (Stanford) Physiology and function of neural circuits for reinforcement learning

Stern, Sarah (Rockefeller University) Regulation of innate behaviors by learning

Trouche, Stephanie (Oxford) Neural circuits and mechanisms for spatio-contextual memories

Turner, Jill R. (University of Kentucky) Nicotinic receptors in brain function

Vassena, Eliana (Radboud University) Neurocomputational mechanisms underlying motivation, decision-making, effort and cognitive control

Volkow, Nora (National Institute on Drug Abuse) Neuroimaging of addiction, dopamine circuits

Wallis, Joni (U.C. Berkeley) Neurophysiology of decision-making and executive control

Warden, Melissa (Cornell University) Neural basis of motivated behavior

Wassum, Kate (UCLA) Neural circuits of appetitive associative learning and motivated behavior

Zachariou, Venetia (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai) Signal transduction and epigenetic mechanisms underlying CNS disorders and their treatment