Tristan Hynes

Assistant Professor
Psychology

Areas of interest

Cognitive & Neural

Research Interests 

Addiction neuroscience, reward circuitry, glia in behaviour, incentive motivation, associative learning, sex differences

Selected Publications

For all publications, please see: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=XAjPDKMAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra 

Hynes, T. J, Chernoff, C. S., Hrelja, K., Li, A., Betts, G. D., Calderhead, L. S., & Winstanley, C. A. (2025). Ventral Striatal Cholinergic Interneurons Regulate Decision-Making or Motor Impulsivity Differentially across Learning and Biological Sex. Journal of Neuroscience, 45(49).

Hynes, T., Bowden-Jones, H., Chamberlain, S., & Belin, D. (2025). A roadmap for transformative translational research on gambling disorder in the UK. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 171.

Hynes, T., Fouyssac, M., Puaud, M., Joshi, D., Chernoff, C., Stiebahl, S., ... & Belin, D. (2024). Pan‐striatal reduction in the expression of the astrocytic dopamine transporter precedes the development of dorsolateral striatum dopamine‐dependent incentive heroin seeking habits. European Journal of Neuroscience, 59(10), 2502-2521.

Hynes, T. J., Chernoff, C. S., Hrelja, K. M., Tse, M. T., Avramidis, D. K., Lysenko-Martin, M. R., ... & Winstanley, C. A. (2024). Win-paired cues modulate the effect of dopamine neuron sensitization on decision making and cocaine self-administration: divergent effects across sex. Biological Psychiatry, 95(3), 220-230.

Zumbusch, A., Samson, A., Chernoff, C., Coslovich, B., & Hynes, T. (2023). Biological sex influences the contribution of sign-tracking and anxiety-like behavior toward remifentanil self-administration. Behavioral Neuroscience, 137(3), 196.

Hynes, T. J., Hrelja, K. M., Hathaway, B. A., Hounjet, C. D., Chernoff, C. S., Ebsary, S. A., ... & Winstanley, C. A. (2021). Dopamine neurons gate the intersection of cocaine use, decision making, and impulsivity. Addiction biology, 26(6), e1302

Courses

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