The University of British Columbia

Core Area(s): Behavioural Neuroscience

Research Interests
Neural circuits subserving learning and executive functions; behavioural and electrophysiological analyses of limbic-cortical-striatal interactions involved in decision making and behavioural flexibility; animal models of schizophrenia and drug addiction.

Courses Taught
PSYC 304 Brain & Behaviour

Representative Publications
Floresco SB, Magyar O, Ghods-Sharifi S, Vexelman C, Tse MT. (2006) Multiple dopamine receptor subtypes in the medial prefrontal cortex of the rat regulate set-shifting. Neuropsychopharmacology, 31:297-309.

Floresco SB, Magyar O. (2006) Mesocortical dopamine modulation of executive functions: beyond working memory. Psychopharmacology, 188:567-85.

Floresco SB, Ghods-Sharifi S. (2007) Amygdala-prefrontal cortical circuitry regulates effort-based decision making. Cereb Cortex, 17:251-60.

Floresco SB, Tse MT.(2007) Dopaminergic regulation of inhibitory and excitatory transmission in the basolateral amygdala-prefrontal cortical pathway. J Neurosci, 27:2045-57.

Block AE, Dhanji H, Thompson-Tardif SF, Floresco SB. (2007) Thalamic-prefrontal cortical-ventral striatal circuitry mediates dissociable components of strategy set shifting. Cereb Cortex, 17:1625-36.