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Catharine A. Winstanley

Catharine A. Winstanley

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
47
Citations
11342
World Ranking
6097
National Ranking
416

Neuroscience

D-Index
47
Citations
11363
World Ranking
6342
National Ranking
372

Catharine A. Winstanley publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Catharine A. Winstanley sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 133 publications — 40th percentile

40% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Catharine A. Winstanley D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Catharine A. Winstanley sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 47 D-Index — 47th percentile

47% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Catharine A. Winstanley is a researcher affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their primary fields of study encompass Neuroscience and Psychology, with specific focus areas including Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience, Clinical Psychology, Endocrine and Autonomic Systems, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

Their research covers a range of topics, notably:

  • Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Regulation of Appetite and Obesity
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
  • Gambling Behavior and Treatments
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior

Winstanley has contributed to several frequent publication venues, including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Psychopharmacology
  • Behavioral Neuroscience
  • Journal of Neuroscience
  • Biological Psychiatry

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Winstanley are:

  • Dopamine neurons gate the intersection of cocaine use, decision making, and impulsivity (2021, Addiction Biology)
  • Noradrenergic contributions to cue-driven risk-taking and impulsivity (2021, Psychopharmacology)
  • Decreased motor impulsivity following chronic lithium treatment in male rats is associated with reduced levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines in the orbitofrontal cortex (2020, Brain Behavior and Immunity)
  • Chemogenetic inhibition of dopaminergic projections to the nucleus accumbens has sexually dimorphic effects in the rat gambling task (2020, Behavioral Neuroscience)
  • Long-Term Outcomes of Adolescent THC Exposure on Translational Cognitive Measures in Adulthood in an Animal Model and Computational Assessment of Human Data (2022, JAMA Psychiatry)

Winstanley collaborates frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Tristan Hynes
  • Kelly M. Hrelja
  • Brett A. Hathaway
  • Chloe S. Chernoff
  • Brittney Russell

Best Publications

  • Behavioral models of impulsivity in relation to ADHD: Translation between clinical and preclinical studies

    Catharine A. Winstanley;Dawn M. Eagle;Trevor W. Robbins

  • Contrasting Roles of Basolateral Amygdala and Orbitofrontal Cortex in Impulsive Choice

    Catharine A. Winstanley;David E. H. Theobald;Rudolf N. Cardinal;Trevor W. Robbins

  • Serotonergic and Dopaminergic Modulation of Gambling Behavior as Assessed Using a Novel Rat Gambling Task

    Fiona D Zeeb;Trevor W Robbins;Catharine A Winstanley

  • Fractionating Impulsivity: Contrasting Effects of Central 5-HT Depletion on Different Measures of Impulsive Behavior

    Catharine A Winstanley;Jeffrey W Dalley;David E H Theobald;Trevor W Robbins

  • Interactions between serotonin and dopamine in the control of impulsive choice in rats: therapeutic implications for impulse control disorders.

    Catharine A Winstanley;David E H Theobald;Jeffrey W Dalley;Trevor W Robbins

  • Limbic corticostriatal systems and delayed reinforcement.

    Rudolf N. Cardinal;Catharine A. Winstanley;Trevor W. Robbins;Barry J. Everitt

  • 5-HT2A and 5-HT2C receptor antagonists have opposing effects on a measure of impulsivity: interactions with global 5-HT depletion.

    Catharine A. Winstanley;David E. H. Theobald;Jeffrey W. Dalley;Jeffrey C. Glennon

  • Cortico-limbic-striatal circuits subserving different forms of cost-benefit decision making

    Stan B. Floresco;Jennifer R. St. Onge;Sarvin Ghods-Sharifi;Catharine A. Winstanley

  • Double Dissociation between Serotonergic and Dopaminergic Modulation of Medial Prefrontal and Orbitofrontal Cortex during a Test of Impulsive Choice

    Catharine A. Winstanley;David E.H. Theobald;Jeffrey W. Dalley;Rudolf N. Cardinal

  • Choice impulsivity: Definitions, measurement issues, and clinical implications

    Kristen R. Hamilton;Marci R. Mitchell;Victoria C. Wing;Iris M. Balodis

  • Global 5-HT depletion attenuates the ability of amphetamine to decrease impulsive choice on a delay-discounting task in rats

    Catharine A. Winstanley;Jeffrey W. Dalley;David E. H. Theobald;Trevor W. Robbins

  • Insight Into the Relationship Between Impulsivity and Substance Abuse From Studies Using Animal Models

    Catharine A. Winstanley;Peter Olausson;Jane R. Taylor;J. David Jentsch

  • Intra-prefrontal 8-OH-DPAT and M100907 improve visuospatial attention and decrease impulsivity on the five-choice serial reaction time task in rats.

    Catharine A. Winstanley;Yogita Chudasama;Jeffrey W. Dalley;David E. H. Theobald

  • The utility of rat models of impulsivity in developing pharmacotherapies for impulse control disorders.

    Catharine A Winstanley

  • IRS2-Akt pathway in midbrain dopamine neurons regulates behavioral and cellular responses to opiates

    Scott J Russo;Carlos A Bolanos;David E Theobald;Nathan A DeCarolis

  • Contributions of the orbitofrontal cortex to impulsive choice: interactions with basal levels of impulsivity, dopamine signalling, and reward-related cues

    Fiona D. Zeeb;Stan B. Floresco;Catharine A. Winstanley

  • Environmental Enrichment Produces a Behavioral Phenotype Mediated by Low Cyclic Adenosine Monophosphate Response Element Binding (CREB) Activity in the Nucleus Accumbens

    Thomas A. Green;Imran N. Alibhai;C. Nathaniel Roybal;Catharine A. Winstanley

  • Lesions of the Basolateral Amygdala and Orbitofrontal Cortex Differentially Affect Acquisition and Performance of a Rodent Gambling Task

    Fiona D. Zeeb;Catharine A. Winstanley

  • ΔFosB Induction in Orbitofrontal Cortex Mediates Tolerance to Cocaine-Induced Cognitive Dysfunction

    Catharine A. Winstanley;Catharine A. Winstanley;Quincey LaPlant;David E H Theobald;Thomas A. Green

  • Dopamine antagonism decreases willingness to expend physical, but not cognitive, effort: a comparison of two rodent cost/benefit decision-making tasks.

    Jay G Hosking;Stan B Floresco;Catharine A Winstanley

  • The orbitofrontal cortex, impulsivity, and addiction: probing orbitofrontal dysfunction at the neural, neurochemical, and molecular level.

    Catharine A. Winstanley

Frequent Co-Authors

David E. H. Theobald
David E. H. Theobald University of Cambridge
Trevor W. Robbins
Trevor W. Robbins University of Cambridge
Luke Clark
Luke Clark University of British Columbia
Robert D. Rogers
Robert D. Rogers Bangor University
Christelle Baunez
Christelle Baunez Aix-Marseille University
Eric J. Nestler
Eric J. Nestler Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Stan B. Floresco
Stan B. Floresco University of British Columbia
Thomas A. Green
Thomas A. Green The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Rudolf N. Cardinal
Rudolf N. Cardinal University of Cambridge
Jared W. Young
Jared W. Young University of California, San Diego

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