Paul Regier

Ph.D. 2015

E-mail: [email protected]

Thesis Title:

Dorsal Striatum and Decision Making: Implications for Addiction

Current Position:

Research Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania

Prior Position(s):

Postdoctoral Associate, University of Pennsylvania

Undergraduate Institution and Major/Degree:

  • University of Nebraska at Omaha

Major Advisor(s):

Research Description:

I am interested in multiple decision-making systems theory and how it relates to addiction. I have two projects that I'm working on. 1) Recording simultaneously in dorsal medial and dorsal lateral striatum and measuring information processing about flexible and habitual actions. 2) Using decision-making systems theory to understand and improve upon certain types of addiction treatment.

Lab Rotations:

  • Donald Simone
  • Michael Georgieff
  • Bob Meisel
  • Marilyn Carroll

Courses Taken Beyond the Core Courses:

  • PHCL 5110- Introduction to Pharmacololgy
  • PSY 5012- Learning/Cognition in Animals
  • PUBH 6450- Biostatistics I
  • NSC 5462- Neuroscience Drug Abuse

Conferences Attended and Presentations:

Conferences Attended:

  • Society for Neuroscience - 2008, 2010, 2012
  • College on Problems of Drug Dependence - 2010

Committee Members:

  • Robert Meisel- chair
  • Jonathan Gewirtz
  • Jim Ashe

Publications:

  • Regier PS, Amemiya S, Redish AD. Hippocampus and subregions of the dorsal striatum respond differently to a behavioral strategy change on a spatial navigation task. J Neurophysiol. 2015;114(3):1399-416.
  • Regier PS, Redish AD. Contingency management and deliberative decision-making processes.  Front Psychiatry. 2015 Jun 1;6:76.
  • Regier PS, Claxton AB, Zlebnik NE, Carroll ME. Cocaine-, caffeine-, and stress-evoked cocaine reinstatement in high vs. low impulsive rats: treatment with allopregnanolone. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2014;143:58-64.
  • Holtz NA, Anker JJ, Regier PS, Claxton A, Carroll ME. Cocaine self-administration punished by i.v. histamine in rat models of high and low drug abuse vulnerability: effects of saccharin preference, impulsivity, and sex. Physiol Behav. 2013;122:32-38.
  • Regier PS, Carroll ME, Meisel RL. Cocaine-induced c-Fos expression in rats selectively bred for high or low saccharin intake and in rats selected for high or low impulsivity. Behav Brain Res. 2012;223(2):271-279.
  • Papale AE, Stott JJ, Powell NJ, Regier PS, Redish AD. Interactions between deliberation and delay-discounting in rats. Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci. 2012 Sep;12(3):513-26.

Awards and Honors:

  • NIDA training grant - 2012 to present
  • Frederick M. Stark Travel Award - 2014

Home Town:

  • Madrid, NE
Paul Regier