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Peter B. Reiner is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their research spans multiple interdisciplinary fields, primarily focusing on health professions, social sciences, and neuroscience. Within these areas, they have contributed substantially to subfields such as general health professions, cognitive neuroscience, safety research, public health, environmental and occupational health, as well as sociology and political science.

Reiner's main topics of research work include ethics and social impacts of artificial intelligence, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, palliative care and end-of-life issues, and ethics in medical practice. Additional areas of interest encompass the impact of technology on adolescents, digital mental health interventions, and behavioral health and interventions.

Their recent publications reflect this blend of topics and fields. Notable papers include:

  • "Blocking mobile internet on smartphones improves sustained attention, mental health, and subjective well-being," 2025, PNAS Nexus
  • "Disparities in public awareness, practitioner availability, and institutional support contribute to differential rates of MAiD utilization: a natural experiment comparing California and Canada," 2024, Mortality
  • "Ethics in the Digital Era: Nothing New?," 2020, IT Professional
  • "AI Loyalty: A New Paradigm for Aligning Stakeholder Interests," 2020, IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society
  • "Advance requests for MAiD in dementia: Policy recommendations emerging from a mixed-methods study of the views of the Canadian public and MAiD practitioners," 2021, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Reiner frequently publishes in venues such as Mortality, PNAS Nexus, IT Professional, IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Collaborations play an important role in their research output. Regular co-authors include Adrian C. Byram, Anthony Aguirre, Harry Surden, Gaia Dempsey, and Noah Castelo, with several joint publications across different projects.

Best Publications

  • beta-Amyloid efflux mediated by p-glycoprotein.

    Fred C. Lam;Ronghua Liu;Peihua Lu;Adam B. Shapiro

  • Neuroethics of neuromarketing

    Emily R. Murphy;Emily R. Murphy;Judy Illes;Peter B. Reiner

  • Ca2+ channels: diversity of form and function

    Terry P Snutch;Peter B Reiner

  • Brainstem afferents to the magnocellular basal forebrain studied by axonal transport, immunohistochemistry, and electrophysiology in the rat.

    K. Semba;P. B. Reiner;E. G. McGeer;H. C. Fibiger

  • Regulation of Amyloid Precursor Protein Cleavage

    Julia Mills;Peter B. Reiner

  • Serotonin hyperpolarizes cholinergic low-threshold burst neurons in the rat laterodorsal tegmental nucleus in vitro.

    J I Luebke;R W Greene;K Semba;A Kamondi

  • State-dependent release of acetylcholine in rat thalamus measured by in vivo microdialysis

    Julie A. Williams;Jeff Comisarow;Jamie Day;Hans C. Fibiger

  • Decisional enhancement and autonomy: public attitudes towards overt and covert nudges

    Gidon Felsen;Noah Castelo;Peter B. Reiner

  • The immunohistochemical localization of choline acetyltransferase in the cat brain.

    Steven R. Vincent;Peter B. Reiner

  • Single cholinergic mesopontine tegmental neurons project to both the pontine reticular formation and the thalamus in the rat.

    K. Semba;P.B. Reiner;H.C. Fibiger

  • Noradrenaline hyperpolarizes identified rat mesopontine cholinergic neurons in vitro

    Julie A. Williams;Peter B. Reiner

  • Regulation of Amyloid Precursor Protein Catabolism Involves the Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Signal Transduction Pathway

    Julia Mills;David Laurent Charest;Fred Lam;Konrad Beyreuther

  • Mechanisms of antihistamine-induced sedation in the human brain: H1 receptor activation reduces a background leakage potassium current.

    P.B. Reiner;A. Kamondi

  • Dynamic properties of corticothalamic excitatory postsynaptic potentials and thalamic reticular inhibitory postsynaptic potentials in thalamocortical neurons of the guinea-pig dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus.

    M. von Krosigk;J.E. Monckton;P.B. Reiner;D.A. McCormick

  • Public Attitudes Toward Cognitive Enhancement

    Nicholas S. Fitz;Roland Nadler;Praveena Manogaran;Eugene W. J. Chong

  • The challenge of crafting policy for do-it-yourself brain stimulation.

    Nicholas S Fitz;Peter B Reiner

  • Correlational analysis of central noradrenergic neuronal activity and sympathetic tone in behaving cats.

    Peter B. Reiner

  • Membrane properties of mesopontine cholinergic neurons studied with the whole-cell patch-clamp technique: implications for behavioral state control

    A. Kamondi;J. A. Williams;B. Hutcheon;P. B. Reiner

  • Membrane properties of histaminergic tuberomammillary neurones of the rat hypothalamus in vitro.

    H L Haas;P B Reiner

  • Nitric Oxide Production in Rat Thalamus Changes with Behavioral State, Local Depolarization, and Brainstem Stimulation

    Julie A. Williams;Steven R. Vincent;Peter B. Reiner

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven R. Vincent
Steven R. Vincent University of British Columbia
Edith G. McGeer
Edith G. McGeer University of British Columbia
Judy Illes
Judy Illes University of British Columbia
Helmut L. Haas
Helmut L. Haas Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Robert W. Greene
Robert W. Greene The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Peter D. Lawrence
Peter D. Lawrence University of British Columbia
Paul Cumming
Paul Cumming Queensland University of Technology
Robert W. McCarley
Robert W. McCarley Harvard Medical School
Klaus Lieb
Klaus Lieb Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Eric Racine
Eric Racine McGill University

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