Dr Sharon Morein-Zamir University positionAssociate Lecturer Dr Sharon Morein-Zamir is pleased to consider applications from prospective PhD students. DepartmentsSchool of Psychology and Sport Science and Department of Psychology InstitutesAnglia Ruskin University and Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute Home pagehttps://www.moreinlab.com/ (personal home page) Research ThemeInterestsMy research integrates approaches from experimental psychology, psychiatry and cognitive neuroscience to enable more effective interventions and ultimately prevention of mental health conditions relating to compulsivity and impulsivity. I study people control their actions and inhibit or change them when the behaviours are deemed no longer appropriate or disruptive. I also research how individuals cope with varying levels of uncertainty. Whilst most people find high uncertainty stressful and unpleasant, many suffering from conditions such as Obsessive Compulsive Disorder react similarly even to milder levels of uncertainty. Research Focus
EquipmentBehavioural analysis Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) Neuropsychological testing Collaborators
Associated News ItemsKey publicationsMorein-Zamir S, Papmeyer M, Gillan CM, Crockett MJ, Fineberg NA, Sahakian BJ, Robbins TW (2012), “Punishment promotes response control deficits in obsessive-compulsive disorder: evidence from a motivational go/no-go task.” Psychol Med :1-10 Details Morein-Zamir S, Fineberg NA, Robbins TW, Sahakian BJ (2010), “Inhibition of thoughts and actions in obsessive-compulsive disorder: extending the endophenotype?” Psychol Med 40(2):263-72 Details Morein-Zamir S, Hommersen P, Johnston C, Kingstone A (2008), “Novel Measures of Response Performance and Inhibition in Children with ADHD.” J Abnorm Child Psychol Details Morein-Zamir S, Chua R, Franks I, Nagelkerke P, & Kingstone A (2007), “Expectancies influence response inhibition and response control” Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance 33(1):149-162 Details Morein-Zamir S, Soto-Faraco S, Kingstone A (2003), “The capture of vision by audition: Deconstructing temporal ventriloquism” Cognitive Brain Research 17:154-163 Publications2014Eagle DM, Noschang C, d'Angelo LS, Noble C, Day JO, Dongelmans ML, Theobald DE, Mar AC, Urcelay GP, Morein-Zamir S, Robbins TW (2014), “The dopamine D2/D3 receptor agonist quinpirole increases checking-like behaviour in an operant observing response task with uncertain reinforcement: A novel possible model of OCD.” Behav Brain Res Details Fineberg NA, Chamberlain SR, Goudriaan AE, Stein DJ, Vanderschuren LJ, Gillan CM, Shekar S, Gorwood PA, Voon V, Morein-Zamir S, Denys D, Sahakian BJ, Moeller FG, Robbins TW, Potenza MN (2014), “New developments in human neurocognition: clinical, genetic, and brain imaging correlates of impulsivity and compulsivity.” CNS Spectr 19(1):69-89 Details Gillan CM, Morein-Zamir S, Durieux AM, Fineberg NA, Sahakian BJ, Robbins TW (2014), “Obsessive-compulsive disorder patients have a reduced sense of control on the illusion of control task.” Front Psychol 5:204 Details Morein-Zamir S, Dodds C, van Hartevelt TJ, Schwarzkopf W, Sahakian B, Müller U, Robbins T (2014), “Hypoactivation in right inferior frontal cortex is specifically associated with motor response inhibition in adult ADHD.” Hum Brain Mapp Details Voon V, Irvine MA, Derbyshire K, Worbe Y, Lange I, Abbott S, Morein-Zamir S, Dudley R, Caprioli D, Harrison NA, Wood J, Dalley JW, Bullmore ET, Grant JE, Robbins TW (2014), “Measuring "waiting" impulsivity in substance addictions and binge eating disorder in a novel analogue of rodent serial reaction time task.” Biol Psychiatry 75(2):148-55 Details 2013Gillan CM, Morein-Zamir S, Kaser M, Fineberg NA, Sule A, Sahakian BJ, Cardinal RN, Robbins TW (2013), “Counterfactual Processing of Economic Action-Outcome Alternatives in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Further Evidence of Impaired Goal-Directed Behavior.” Biol Psychiatry Details Gillan CM, Morein-Zamir S, Urcelay GP, Sule A, Voon V, Apergis-Schoute AM, Fineberg NA, Sahakian BJ, Robbins TW (2013), “Enhanced Avoidance Habits in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.” Biol Psychiatry Details Morein-Zamir S, Papmeyer M, Durieux A, Fineberg NA, Sahakian BJ, Robbins TW (2013), “Investigation of attentional bias in obsessive compulsive disorder with and without depression in visual search.” PLoS One 8(11):e80118 Details Morein-Zamir S, Papmeyer M, Pertusa A, Chamberlain SR, Fineberg NA, Sahakian BJ, Mataix-Cols D, Robbins TW (2013), “The profile of executive function in OCD hoarders and hoarding disorder.” Psychiatry Res Details Morein-Zamir S, Simon Jones P, Bullmore ET, Robbins TW, Ersche KD (2013), “Prefrontal hypoactivity associated with impaired inhibition in stimulant-dependent individuals but evidence for hyperactivation in their unaffected siblings.” Neuropsychopharmacology 38(10):1945-53 Details 2012Crockett MJ, Clark L, Apergis-Schoute AM, Morein-Zamir S, Robbins TW (2012), “Serotonin modulates the effects of pavlovian aversive predictions on response vigor.” Neuropsychopharmacology 37(10):2244-52 Details 2011de Rover M, Pironti VA, McCabe JA, Acosta-Cabronero J, Arana FS, Morein-Zamir S, Hodges JR, Robbins TW, Fletcher PC, Nestor PJ, Sahakian BJ (2011), “Hippocampal dysfunction in patients with mild cognitive impairment: a functional neuroimaging study of a visuospatial paired associates learning task.” Neuropsychologia 49(7):2060-70 Details Dodds CM, Morein-Zamir S, Robbins TW (2011), “Dissociating inhibition, attention, and response control in the frontoparietal network using functional magnetic resonance imaging.” Cereb Cortex 21(5):1155-65 Details Ersche KD, Barnes A, Jones PS, Morein-Zamir S, Robbins TW, Bullmore ET (2011), “Abnormal structure of frontostriatal brain systems is associated with aspects of impulsivity and compulsivity in cocaine dependence.” Brain 134(Pt 7):2013-24 Details Gillan CM, Papmeyer M, Morein-Zamir S, Sahakian BJ, Fineberg NA, Robbins TW, de Wit S (2011), “Disruption in the Balance Between Goal-Directed Behavior and Habit Learning in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.” Am J Psychiatry Details Sahakian BJ, Morein-Zamir S (2011), “Neuroethical issues in cognitive enhancement.” J Psychopharmacol 25(2):197-204 Details 2010Morein-Zamir S, Craig KJ, Ersche KD, Abbott S, Muller U, Fineberg NA, Bullmore ET, Sahakian BJ, Robbins TW (2010), “Impaired visuospatial associative memory and attention in obsessive compulsive disorder but no evidence for differential dopaminergic modulation.” Psychopharmacology (Berl) 212(3):357-67 Details Morein-Zamir S, Sahakian BJ (2010), “Neuroethics and public engagement training needed for neuroscientists.” Trends Cogn Sci 14(2):49-51 Details 2009Sahakian BJ, Morein-Zamir S (2009), “Neuroscientists need neuroethics teaching.” Science 325(5937):147 Details 2007Morein-Zamir S, Turner DC, Sahakian BJ (2007), “A review of the effects of modafinil on cognition in schizophrenia.” Schizophr Bull 33(6):1298-306 Details Sahakian B, Morein-Zamir S (2007), “Professor's little helper.” Nature 450(7173):1157-9 Details 2006Morein-Zamir S, Chua R, Franks I, Nagelkerke P, Kingstone A (2006), “Measuring online volitional response control with a continuous tracking task.” Behav Res Methods 38(4):638-47 Details Morein-Zamir S, Kingstone A (2006), “Fixation offset and stop signal intensity effects on saccadic countermanding: a crossmodal investigation.” Exp Brain Res 175(3):453-62 Details Morein-Zamir S, Nagelkerke P, Chua R, Franks I, Kingstone A (2006), “Compatibility effects in stopping and response initiation in a continuous tracking task.” Q J Exp Psychol (Colchester) 59(12):2148-61 Details 2005Morein-Zamir S, Henik A, Balas M, Soroker N (2005), “Differential processing of word and color in unilateral spatial neglect.” Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 23(2-3):259-69 Details Soto-Faraco S, Morein-Zamir S, Kingstone A (2005), “On audiovisual spatial synergy: the fragility of the phenomenon.” Percept Psychophys 67(3):444-57 Details 2004Morein-Zamir S, Nagelkerke P, Chua R, Franks I, Kingstone A (2004), “Inhibiting prepared and ongoing responses: is there more than one kind of stopping?” Psychon Bull Rev 11(6):1034-40 Details Scheres A, Oosterlaan J, Geurts H, Morein-Zamir S, Meiran N, Schut H, Vlasveld L, Sergeant JA (2004), “Executive functioning in boys with ADHD: primarily an inhibition deficit?” Arch Clin Neuropsychol 19(4):569-94 Details 2003Morein-Zamir S, Meiran N (2003), “Individual stopping times and cognitive control: converging evidence for the stop signal task from a continuous tracking paradigm.” Q J Exp Psychol A 56(3):469-89 Details Morein-Zamir S, Soto-Faraco S, Kingstone A (2003), “Auditory capture of vision: examining temporal ventriloquism.” Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 17(1):154-63 Details Scheres A, Oosterlaan J, Swanson J, Morein-Zamir S, Meiran N, Schut H, Vlasveld L, Sergeant JA (2003), “The effect of methylphenidate on three forms of response inhibition in boys with AD/HD.” J Abnorm Child Psychol 31(1):105-20 Details 2002Kingstone A, Klein R, Morein-Zamir S, Hunt A, Fisk J, Maxner C (2002), “Orienting attention in aging and Parkinson's disease: distinguishing modes of control.” J Clin Exp Neuropsychol 24(7):951-67 Details Morein-Zamir S, Henik A, Spitzer-Davidson I (2002), “The importance of irrelevant-dimension variability in the stroop flanker task.” Psychon Bull Rev 9(1):119-25 Details |