Registration & coffee 

Welcome & Opening Remarks

Keynote Lecture 1

Chair: Egbert Hastra

Karin Roelofs (Radboud University, The Netherlands)
Defensive freezing and approach avoidance decisions under threat

Session 1 • To Approach or Avoid? Neural Circuitry of Conflicting Motivations

Patrick Piantadosi  (NIAAA, NIH, USA)
Amygdalar correlates of risk/reward decision-making

Sebastian Fernandez  (Institute of Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, CNRS, France)
A brainstem–prefrontal cholinergic circuit gates adaptive risk-taking

Angela C. Roberts (University of Cambridge, UK)
Negative affective biases and their instantiation in prefronto-cingulate cortices of non-human primates

Rutsuko Ito (University of Toronto, Canada)
Neural circuit mechanisms of approach–avoidance conflict: ventral hippocampal control of competing motivational outputs

Coffee Break

ECR Spotlight Session / Travel Awardee Data Blitz

Bixuan Lin (Kensington, Australia)
Striatal mechanisms of punishment learning: a comparison of dopamine binding in DMS, DLS, TS and mAcbSh

Victoria Ivakitch (Toronto, Canada)
Reinforcer volume influences punishment-resistant ethanol seeking in male and female rats

Keira Aubin (Calgary, Canada)
The impact of acute social stress on reward-related probabilistic reversal learning in healthy humans

Luke Keevers (Kensington, Australia)
The role of controllability in aversive learning

Sofia Vellere (Camerino, Italy)
The role of adolescent social exclusion on the vulnerability to alcohol- and stress-related disorders

Min Lou (Sydney, Australia)
Relationships between phenotypic differences in punishment behaviour and prefrontal cortex network engagement

Ariadna Garcia-Vergara (Cambridge, United Kingdom)
Dissociable contributions of subgenual A25 overactivation and dorsolateral A46 inactivation to affective biases in the common marmoset: a computational analysis

Marina Rodriguez Lopez (Cambridge, United Kingdom)
Differential effects of pharmacological and physical stress on checking behaviour in rats

Lunch (provided) + Poster session 1

Keynote Lecture 2

Chair: Heidi Lesscher

Session 2 • Symmetries of Reinforcement: Translating Models of Reward and Punishment 

Philip Jean-Richard-Dit-Bressel (UNSW, Sydney, Australia)
Punishment learning: A case for goal-directed suppression and attribution errors

Alex Pike (University of York, UK)
Can computational modelling give us insights into negative affective bias?

Barry Setlow (University of Florida, USA)
Reward-punishment integration in cost-benefit decision making

Coffee Break

Hot Topics

Margarita Moreno-Montoya (Almeria, Spain)
Is it possible to change compulsivity by a 5-HT2A psychedelic agonist?

Michela Marinelli (Austin TX, USA)
Adverse events shape behavior differently in adolescents during Pavlovian conditioning versus reward-directed responding

Uri Shalev (Montreal, Canada)
Unique properties of acute food deprivation as a relapse trigger following punishment-invoked abstinence

Workshop Reception + Poster session 2 

EBPS IDEA committee event + social event

Keynote Lecture 3

Chair: Nathan Marchant

Markus Heilig (Linköping University, Sweden)
Deconstructing and reverse-translating addiction in search of molecular treatment targets

Coffee Break

Session 3 • Shaping the Circuit: How Experience and Environment Alter Punishment Processing 

Marloes Henckens  (Radboud University, The Netherlands)
Stressed circuits: The effects of prior stress on new fear learning

Frank Meye (Utrecht University, TheNetherlands)
Stress-driven plasticity in limbic circuits drives increased intake of food reward

Lindsay R. Halladay (University of Arizona, USA)
Circuits, contexts, and caveats of punished ethanol seeking

Marcello Solinas (University of Poitiers, France)
The progressive shock strength (PSS) procedure to investigate compulsive-like behavior in addiction models

Sponsor Session

Lunch (provided) + Poster session 3

Session 4 • System-Level Integration: Weighing Reward Against Punishment 

Bita Moghaddam (University of Oregon, USA)
Modulation of aversive learning by psychedelics

Christelle Baunez (CNRS, Université de Aix-Marseille, France)
The subthalamic nucleus: where reward and punishment or cost are valued

Sebastien Carnicella (Inserm Grenoble Institute of Neuroscience, France)
Why does punishment outweigh reward in some individuals, but not in others: some metabolic insights into alcohol compulsive-like behaviors in rats

Tobias Granwald (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden)
Beliefs of helplessness - a generalised Bayesian prior for avoidability

Coffee Break

Session 5 • Translational Models of Addiction: Drug Use Despite Adverse Consequences  

Yavin Shaham (NIDA, NIH, USA)
Relapse after voluntary abstinence induced by adverse consequences of drug taking and seeking

Mickael Degoulet (Institut des Neurosciences de la Timone, France)
Tracking the emergence of compulsive-like cocaine seeking reveals atypical AMPA receptor plasticity in the subthalamic nucleus

Michel Engeln (Université de Bordeaux, France)
Evaluating the role of the pallido-thalamic pathway in persistent cocaine intake despite negative consequences

Karis Colyer-Pate (Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
Resting-state and alcohol cue-induced functional connectivity in relation to age of onset and drinking severity in rats

Closing Remarks & Farewell