Recently, the Government of Canada announced an investment of more than $118 million through the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) to support

The Department of Psychology at the University of British Columbia–Vancouver campus (psych.ubc.ca) encourages applications for a tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level in clinical psyc...

The mu opioid receptor system has long been recognized for its role in regulating ingestive behaviors and food palatability. However, beyond their rob…

Voluntary physical activity is a highly motivated behavior with important implications for physical and mental health, yet the neural and endocrine mechanisms underlying motivation to exercise remain ...

The basolateral amygdala dopamine system has received little attention. Here, authors show that BLA dopamine plays a unique role in learning, by encoding the emotional salience of sensory cues to supp...

Congratulations to Dr. Zachary Pennington, an Assistant Professor in UBC’s Department of Psychology and researcher at the Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for

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Growing up in a small town in Ontario, Dr. Milan Valyear always enjoyed tinkering and building things, and in particular, one memory stands out. “It was

When Dr. Zach Pennington was growing up, he never imagined he would become a scientist. “I wanted to be a professional skateboarder, a guitarist in a punk

The third-annual CAN satellite event, bringing together Canadian neuroscientists studying circuits and behaviour.

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Cue–reward learning rate scales proportionally with the time between rewards. Consequently, learning over a fixed duration is independent of the number of trials. This challenges trial-based dopamine ...