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Overview

Oliver J. Robinson is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans several fields, mainly focusing on psychology and neuroscience. Within these main fields, their work extensively covers subfields such as experimental and cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, clinical psychology, psychiatry and mental health, and behavioral neuroscience.

Their research topics include a variety of themes related to mental health and brain function. These main topics are:

  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Digital Mental Health Interventions

Oliver J. Robinson has published frequently in journals such as Computational Psychiatry, Biological Psychiatry, Royal Society Open Science, Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory). Their contributions to these venues number multiple papers, with the highest counts in Computational Psychiatry and Biological Psychiatry.

Recent scholarly publications include the following papers:

  • The Overlapping Neurobiology of Induced and Pathological Anxiety: A Meta-Analysis of Functional Neural Activation (2020), American Journal of Psychiatry
  • Reinforcement Learning in Patients With Mood and Anxiety Disorders vs Control Individuals (2022), JAMA Psychiatry
  • Identifying Transdiagnostic Mechanisms in Mental Health Using Computational Factor Modeling (2022), Biological Psychiatry
  • Assessing the Effectiveness of Front of Pack Labels: Findings from an Online Randomised-Controlled Experiment in a Representative British Sample (2021), Nutrients
  • How representative are neuroimaging samples? Large-scale evidence for trait anxiety differences between fMRI and behaviour-only research participants (2021), Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Frequent collaborators in their research include Alexandra C. Pike, Yumeya Yamamori, Peter Alexander Kirk, Jonathan P. Roiser, and Alice V. Chavanne. These coauthors have contributed to multiple joint publications, reflecting ongoing collaborative efforts.

Best Publications

  • The impact of anxiety upon cognition: perspectives from human threat of shock studies.

    Oliver Joe Robinson;Katherine Vytal;Brian R Cornwell;Christian Grillon

  • Ventral striatum response during reward and punishment reversal learning in unmedicated major depressive disorder.

    Oliver J. Robinson;Roshan Cools;Christina O. Carlisi;Barbara J. Sahakian

  • The Overlapping Neurobiology of Induced and Pathological Anxiety: A Meta-Analysis of Functional Neural Activation.

    Alice V Chavanne;Oliver J Robinson

  • The adaptive threat bias in anxiety: Amygdala–dorsomedial prefrontal cortex coupling and aversive amplification

    Oliver J. Robinson;Danielle R. Charney;Cassie Overstreet;Katherine Vytal

  • Enhanced Risk Aversion, But Not Loss Aversion, in Unmedicated Pathological Anxiety

    Caroline J. Charpentier;Jessica Aylward;Jonathan P. Roiser;Oliver J. Robinson

  • Acute tryptophan depletion in healthy volunteers enhances punishment prediction but does not affect reward prediction.

    Roshan Cools;Oliver J Robinson;Barbara Sahakian

  • Altered learning under uncertainty in unmedicated mood and anxiety disorders

    Jessica Aylward;Vincent Valton;Woo-Young Ahn;Rebecca L Bond

  • Modeling Avoidance in Mood and Anxiety Disorders Using Reinforcement Learning

    Anahit Mkrtchian;Jessica Aylward;Peter Dayan;Jonathan P. Roiser

  • The translational neural circuitry of anxiety.

    Oliver J Robinson;Alexandra C Pike;Brian Cornwell;Christian Grillon

  • The impact of induced anxiety on response inhibition.

    Oliver Joe Robinson;Marissa Krimsky;Christian Grillon

  • The effect of induced anxiety on cognition: threat of shock enhances aversive processing in healthy individuals

    Oliver J. Robinson;Allison M. Letkiewicz;Cassie Overstreet;Monique Ernst

  • The dorsal medial prefrontal (anterior cingulate) cortex–amygdala aversive amplification circuit in unmedicated generalised and social anxiety disorders: an observational study

    Oliver J Robinson;Oliver J Robinson;Marissa Krimsky;Lynne Lieberman;Phillip Allen

  • Reliance on habits at the expense of goal-directed control following dopamine precursor depletion

    Sanne de Wit;Sanne de Wit;Holly R. Standing;Elise E. DeVito;Elise E. DeVito;Oliver J. Robinson;Oliver J. Robinson

  • Stress increases aversive prediction error signal in the ventral striatum

    Oliver J. Robinson;Cassie Overstreet;Danielle R. Charney;Katherine Vytal

  • Unreliability of putative fMRI biomarkers during emotional face processing.

    Camilla L. Nord;A. Gray;Caroline J. Charpentier;Oliver J. Robinson

  • Sustained anxiety increases amygdala-dorsomedial prefrontal coupling: a mechanism for maintaining an anxious state in healthy adults

    Katherine E. Vytal;Cassie Overstreet;Danielle R. Charney;Oliver J. Robinson

  • Converging evidence for central 5-HT effects in acute tryptophan depletion

    M J Crockett;L Clark;J P Roiser;O J Robinson

  • Tryptophan depletion disinhibits punishment but not reward prediction: implications for resilience.

    Oliver J. Robinson;Roshan Cools;Barbara J. Sahakian

  • Recurrence in major depressive disorder: a neurocognitive perspective.

    O. J. Robinson;B. J. Sahakian

  • Dissociable responses to punishment in distinct striatal regions during reversal learning

    Oliver J. Robinson;Michael Joshua Frank;Barbara J. Sahakian;Roshan Cools

  • The role of serotonin in the neurocircuitry of negative affective bias: serotonergic modulation of the dorsal medial prefrontal-amygdala 'aversive amplification' circuit.

    Oliver J. Robinson;Cassie Overstreet;Philip S. Allen;Alison Letkiewicz

Frequent Co-Authors

Christian Grillon
Christian Grillon National Institutes of Health
Jonathan P. Roiser
Jonathan P. Roiser University College London
Barbara J. Sahakian
Barbara J. Sahakian University of Cambridge
Monique Ernst
Monique Ernst National Institutes of Health
Roshan Cools
Roshan Cools Radboud University
Ian S. Penton-Voak
Ian S. Penton-Voak University of Bristol
Marcus R. Munafò
Marcus R. Munafò University of Bath
Daniel S. Pine
Daniel S. Pine National Institutes of Health
Chandni Hindocha
Chandni Hindocha Beckley Foundation
Molly J. Crockett
Molly J. Crockett Yale University

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