Symposia: Rethinking the transition from habits to compulsivity in addictive behaviour
Chair: Associate Professor Kelly Clemens
Kelly Clemens, Associate Professor, School of Psychology, and Associate Dean of Impact Partnerships for the Faculty of Science, UNSW
Speakers:
Dr. Karly Turner, Lecturer, School of Psychology, University of New South Wales ACAN faculty
Stimulus-controlled behaviour corresponds to dopamine signalling in the accumbens and is altered by pre-exposure to drugs of abuse
Dr Mike Kendig, ARC DECRA Fellow, School of Life Sciences, University of Technology Sydney
Effects of obesogenic diets on behavioural control and implications for the control of food-seeking
Associate Professor Laura Corbit, Group leader, Department of Psychology, The University of Toronto, Canada
The effects of an obesogenic diet on striatal decision-making circuits and the impact on behavioural control
Dr Robyn Brown, Head of the Behavioural Neuropharmacology Laboratory in the Department of Biochemistry and Pharmacology, University of Melbourne
Cognitive drivers of persistent poor decisions