Red X iconGreen tick iconYellow tick icon

Contact Details

Email
brian.hyland@otago.ac.nz
Position
Honorary Professor
Department
Department of Physiology
Qualifications
BMedSc MB CHB PhD(Otago)
Research summary
Neuroscience, neurophysiology, neurological disorders

Research

Current research focuses on:

  1. Neurophysiology of midbrain dopamine systems and pathways which modulate dopamine neuron activity
  2. Effects of abnormal dopamine activity such as occurs in Parkinson's disease on activity in the motor control pathways

Publications

Reynolds, J. N. J., Hyland, B. I., & Wickens, J. (2001). A cellular mechanism of reward-related learning. Nature, 413, 67-70. Journal - Research Article

Hyland, B. I., Reynolds, J. N. J., Hay, J., Perk, C. G., & Miller, R. (2002). Firing modes of midbrain dopamine cells in the freely moving rat. Neuroscience, 114(2), 475-492. Journal - Research Article

Pan, W.-X., Schmidt, R., Wickens, J. R., & Hyland, B. I. (2005). Dopamine cells respond to predicted events during classical conditioning: Evidence for eligibility traces in the reward-learning network. Journal of Neuroscience, 25(26), 6235-6242. Journal - Research Article

Dejean, C., Arbuthnott, G., Wickens, J. R., Le Moine, C., Boraud, T., & Hyland, B. I. (2011). Power fluctuations in beta and gamma frequencies in rat globus pallidus: Association with specific phases of slow oscillations and differential modulation by dopamine D1 and D2 receptors. Journal of Neuroscience, 31(16), 6098-6107. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3311-09.2011 Journal - Research Article

Li, Y., Dalphin, N., & Hyland, B. I. (2013). Association with reward negatively modulates short latency phasic conditioned responses of dorsal raphe nucleus neurons in freely moving rats. Journal of Neuroscience, 33(11), 5065-5078. doi: 10.1523/jneurosci.5679-12.2013 Journal - Research Article

Back to top