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Dr Philip Jean-Richard Dit Bressel

Dr Philip Jean-Richard Dit Bressel

Senior Lecturer

2015听 听 PhD, 黑料网大事记 Sydney听

Science
School of Psychology

I lead the Brain鈥ind鈥ehaviour听Lab at 黑料网大事记 School of Psychology.

My lab's research seeks to understand the psychobiology of motivated learning, decision-making, and behaviour, with a special focus on how we learn and make decisions around actions with negative consequences. Our research makes use of specially-designed experimental tasks across species, precision neuroscience techniques (e.g., optical and genetic approaches to measure and manipulate neural processes in real-time, in vivo pharmacology), and advanced analysis methods, to uncover mechanisms for adaptive and maladaptive behaviour.
E-mail
p.jean-richardditbressel@unsw.edu.au
Location
Room 706, Mathews Building School of Psychology 黑料网大事记 Sydney
  • Journal articles | 2025
    Drakopoulos V; Reichenbach A; Stark R; Foldi CJ; Jean-Richard-dit-bressel P; Andrews ZB, 2025, 'FiPhoPHA鈥擜 Fiber Photometry Python Package for Post Hoc Analysis', Eneuro, 12,
    Journal articles | 2025
    Gaetani K; Jean-Richard-Dit-Bressel P; McNally GP, 2025, 'Early contingency information enhances human punishment sensitivity when punishment is frequent but not rare', Behavioral Neuroscience, 139, pp. 216 - 228,
    Journal articles | 2025
    Keevers LJ; Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P, 2025, 'Obtaining artifact-corrected signals in fiber photometry via isosbestic signals, robust regression, and dF/F calculations', Neurophotonics, 12,
    Journal articles | 2025
    Zeng L; Park HRP; McNally GP; Jean-Richard-Dit-Bressel P, 2025, 'Causal inference and cognitive-behavioral integration deficits drive stable variation in human punishment sensitivity.', Commun Psychol, 3, pp. 103,
    Journal articles | 2024
    Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P; Gaetani K; Zeng L; Weidemann G; McNally GP, 2024, 'Translational Research in Punishment Learning', Behavioral Neuroscience, 138, pp. 143 - 151,
    Journal articles | 2024
    Mcnally GP; Jean-Richard-Dit-Bressel P, 2024, 'A Cognitive Pathway to Persistent, Maladaptive Choice', European Addiction Research, 30, pp. 233 - 242,
    Journal articles | 2024
    Rafiei N; Mitchell CS; Tedesco CR; Chen J; Choi EA; Roughley S; Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P; Kumar NN; McNally GP; Herzog H; Begg DP, 2024, 'Chemogenetic activation ofarcuate nucleus NPY and NPY/AgRP neurons increases feeding behaviour in mice', Neuropeptides, 107,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P; Lee JC; Liew SX; Weidemann G; Lovibond PF; McNally GP, 2023, 'A cognitive pathway to punishment insensitivity', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 120, pp. e2221634120,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P; McNally GP, 2023, 'Reply to Jarvis and Chong: Understanding punishment insensitivity phenotypes using computational modelling', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 120,
    Journal articles | 2023
    McNally GP; Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P; Millan EZ; Lawrence AJ, 2023, 'Pathways to the persistence of drug use despite its adverse consequences', Molecular Psychiatry, 28, pp. 2228 - 2237,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Choi EA; Husi膰 M; Millan EZ; Gilchrist S; Power JM; dit Bressel PJR; McNally GP; Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P, 2022, 'A Corticothalamic Circuit Trades off Speed for Safety during Decision-Making under Motivational Conflict', Journal of Neuroscience, 42, pp. 3473 - 3483,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Ghareh H; Alonso-Lozares I; Schetters D; Herman RJ; Heistek TS; Van Mourik Y; Jean-Richard-dit-bressel P; Zernig G; Mansvelder HD; De Vries TJ; Marchant NJ, 2022, 'Role of anterior insula cortex in context-induced relapse of nicotine-seeking', Elife, 11, pp. e75609,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Jean Richard dit Bressel P; McNally GP, 2022, 'Punishment and compulsion: more than meets the eye', Neuropsychopharmacology, 47, pp. 425 - 426,
    Journal articles | 2022
    Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P; Tran J; Didachos A; McNally GP, 2022, 'Instrumental aversion coding in the basolateral amygdala and its reversion by a benzodiazepine', Neuropsychopharmacology, 47, pp. 1199 - 1209,
    Journal articles | 2021
    Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P; Lee J; Liew SX; Weidemann G; Lovibond P; McNally G, 2021, 'Punishment insensitivity in humans is due to failures in instrumental contingency learning', ,
    Journal articles | 2021
    Jean-Richard-dit-bressel P; Lee JC; Liew SX; Weidemann G; Lovibond PF; McNally GP, 2021, 'Punishment insensitivity in humans is due to failures in instrumental contingency learning', Elife, 10, pp. e69594,
    Journal articles | 2021
    Peng CY; Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P; Gilchrist S; Power JM; McNally GP, 2021, 'Phasic inhibition of dopamine neurons is an instrumental punisher.', Behavioral Neuroscience, 135, pp. 415 - 425,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P; Clifford CWG; McNally GP, 2020, 'Analyzing Event-Related Transients: Confidence Intervals, Permutation Tests, and Consecutive Thresholds', Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, 13, pp. 14,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P; Ma C; Bradfield L; Killcross S; McNally G, 2020, 'Punishment insensitivity emerges from impaired contingency detection, not aversion insensitivity or reward dominance', eLife, 8, pp. 808873,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Liu Y; Jean-Richard-Dit-Bressel P; Yau JOY; Willing A; Prasad AA; Power JM; Killcross S; Clifford CWG; McNally GP, 2020, 'The mesolimbic dopamine activity signatures of relapse to alcohol-seeking', Journal of Neuroscience, 40, pp. 6409 - 6427,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Ma C; Jean-Richard-Dit-Bressel P; Roughley S; Vissel B; Balleine BW; Killcross S; Bradfield LA, 2020, 'Medial Orbitofrontal Cortex Regulates Instrumental Conditioned Punishment, but not Pavlovian Conditioned Fear.', Cereb Cortex Commun, 1, pp. tgaa039,
    Journal articles | 2020
    Ma C; Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P; Roughley S; Vissel B; Balleine B; Killcross S; Bradfield L, 2020, 'Medial Orbitofrontal Cortex Regulates Instrumental Conditioned Punishment, but not Pavlovian Conditioned Fear', ,
    Journal articles | 2019
    Choi EA; Jean-Richard-Dit-Bressel P; Clifford C; Mcnally G, 2019, 'Paraventricular thalamus controls behavior during motivational conflict', IBRO Reports, 6, pp. S68 - S68,
    Journal articles | 2019
    Choi EA; Jean-Richard-Dit-Bressel P; Clifford CWG; McNally GP, 2019, 'Paraventricular thalamus controls behavior during motivational conflict', Journal of Neuroscience, 39, pp. 4945 - 4958,
    Journal articles | 2019
    Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P; Ma C; Bradfield LA; Killcross S; McNally GP, 2019, 'Punishment insensitivity emerges from impaired contingency detection, not aversion insensitivity or reward dominance', Elife, 8, pp. e52765,
    Journal articles | 2019
    Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P; McNally GP, 2019, 'Visualizing Infralimbic Control over Incubation of Cocaine Craving', Neuron, 103, pp. 1 - 3,
    Journal articles | 2018
    Gibson GD; Prasad AA; Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P; Yau JOY; Millan EZ; Liu Y; Campbell EJ; Lim J; Marchant NJ; Power JM; Killcross S; Lawrence AJ; McNally GP, 2018, 'Distinct Accumbens Shell Output Pathways Promote versus Prevent Relapse to Alcohol Seeking', Neuron, 98, pp. 512 - 520.e6,
    Journal articles | 2018
    Jean-Richard-Dit-Bressel P; Killcross S; McNally GP, 2018, 'Behavioral and neurobiological mechanisms of punishment: Implications for psychiatric disorders', Neuropsychopharmacology, 43, pp. 1639 - 1650,
    Journal articles | 2018
    Sengupta A; Yau JOY; Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P; Liu Y; Millan EZ; Power JM; McNally GP, 2018, 'Basolateral amygdala neurons maintain aversive emotional salience', Journal of Neuroscience, 38, pp. 3001 - 3012,
    Journal articles | 2017
    Sengupta A; Yau JOY; Bressel PJ-RD; Liu Y; Zayra Millan E; Power J; McNally G, 2017, 'Basolateral amygdala glutamatergic neurons maintain aversive emotional salience', ,
    Journal articles | 2016
    Jean-Richard-Dit-Bressel P; McNally GP, 2016, 'Lateral, not medial, prefrontal cortex contributes to punishment and aversive instrumental learning', Learning and Memory, 23, pp. 607 - 617,
    Journal articles | 2015
    Jean-Richard-Dit-Bressel P; McNally GP, 2015, 'The role of the basolateral amygdala in punishment', Learning and Memory, 22, pp. 128 - 137,
    Journal articles | 2014
    Bressel PJRD; McNally GP; Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P, 2014, 'The role of the lateral habenula in punishment', Plos One, 9, pp. e111699,
  • Preprints | 2025
    Gaetani K; McNally G; Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P, 2025, Early contingency information enhances human punishment sensitivity when punishment is frequent but not rare,
    Preprints | 2025
    Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P; Zeng L; Park H; McNally G, 2025, Causal inference deficits and integration failure drive stable variation in human punishment sensitivity,
    Preprints | 2025
    Wise ET; Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P; Yau JO-Y; McNally GP; Power JM, 2025, Instrumental Punishment Learning Enhances the Intrinsic Excitability of Basolateral Amygdala Neurons,
    Preprints | 2024
    Keevers L; McNally G; Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P, 2024, Obtaining artifact-corrected signals in fiber photometry: Isosbestic signals, robust regression and dF/F calculations,
    Preprints | 2023
    Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P; Gaetani K; Zeng LZ; Weidemann G; McNally G, 2023, Translational research in punishment learning,
    Preprints | 2023
    Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P; Lee J; Liew SX; Weidemann G; Lovibond P; McNally G, 2023, A cognitive pathway to punishment insensitivity,
    Preprints | 2023
    Keevers LJ; McNally GP; Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P, 2023, Obtaining artifact-corrected signals in fiber photometry: Isosbestic signals, robust regression and dF/F calculations,
    Preprints | 2023
    McNally G; Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P, 2023, A cognitive pathway to persistent, maladaptive choice,
    Preprints | 2021
    Choi E; Husi膰 M; Millan Z; Jean Richard dit Bressel P; McNally G, 2021, A corticothalamic circuit trades off speed for safety during decision-making under motivational conflict,
    Preprints | 2021
    Ghareh H; Alonso-Lozares I; Schetters D; Herman R; Heistek T; van Mourik Y; Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P; Zernig G; Mansvelder H; de Vries T; Marchant N, 2021, Role of anterior insula cortex in context-induced relapse of nicotine-seeking,
    Preprints | 2021
    Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P; Lee J; Liew SX; Weidemann G; Lovibond P; McNally G, 2021, Punishment insensitivity in humans is due to failures in instrumental contingency learning,
    Preprints | 2021
    Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P; Tran J; Didachos A; McNally G, 2021, Instrumental aversion coding in the basolateral amygdala and its reversion by a benzodiazepine,
    Preprints | 2020
    Liu Y; Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P; Yau JO-Y; Willing A; Prasad A; Power J; Killcross S; Clifford CWG; McNally G, 2020, The mesolimbic dopamine signatures of relapse to alcohol-seeking,
    Preprints | 2020
    Ma C; Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P; Roughley S; Vissel B; Balleine B; Killcross S; Bradfield L, 2020, Medial Orbitofrontal Cortex Regulates Instrumental Conditioned Punishment, but not Pavlovian Conditioned Fear,
    Preprints | 2020
    Peng CY; Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel P; Gilchrist S; Power J; McNally G, 2020, Phasic inhibition of dopamine neurons is an instrumental punisher,
    Preprints | 2017
    Sengupta A; Yau JOY; Bressel PJ-RD; Liu Y; Zayra Millan E; Power J; McNally G, 2017, Basolateral amygdala glutamatergic neurons maintain aversive emotional salience,

Australian Research Council

Discovery Project (2022-2024). 鈥淏rain circuits for parsing aversion鈥 [Lead investigator, AU$340,023]

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2025听 听听 Early Faculty Travel Award, International Behavioral Neuroscience Society

2025听 听听 D. G. Marquis Behavioral Neuroscience Award, American Psychological Association

2024听 听听 Best Paper Award - General Category, Biological Psychiatry Australia

2023听听听听 Millennium Science Fellowship:听"Identifying transcriptomic signatures of adaptive versus maladaptive learning about adverse action consequences鈥

2023听 听 听Translation Launchpad Program, 黑料网大事记 Sydney

2022听听听听 Early Career Achievement Award, International Behavioral Neuroscience Society

2022听听听听 D. G. Marquis Behavioral Neuroscience Award, American Psychological Association

2015听听听听 The Paxinos Neuroscience Prize, 黑料网大事记 Sydney

2011听听听听 Istvan Tork Neuroscience Prize, 黑料网大事记 Sydney

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Chair, Education & Training Committee,听International Behavioral Neuroscience Society

Editorial Board:听Journal of Neuroscience; Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Faculty, 听(ACAN), Australasian Neuroscience Society

Guest Editor, Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

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Media

听(2025).听ABC Radio

Knowing better, doing worse: the science behind self-sabotaging behaviour听(2025).听Lachlan Gilbert, 黑料网大事记 Newsroom

听(2025).听Jean-Richard-dit-Bressel & Zeng,听SpringerNature Research Communities听

听(2024).听Nesh Nikolic,听Better Thinking Podcast

听(2023). ABC | Future Tense

听(2023). Antony Funnell, ABC | Future Tense

Research sheds new light on self-destructive behaviour听(2023). Lachlan Gilbert, 黑料网大事记 Newsroom

听(2021).听Education Today

Why punishment may work on some, but not all people听(2021).听Lachlan Gilbert, 黑料网大事记 Newsroom

听(2020).听TDT Talks | Fiber Photometry Series,听Tucker-Davis听Technologies

My Research Supervision

PhD:

Bixuan Lin

Luke Keevers

Min Lou