Department of Psychology, [email protected]
New York University www.gillanlab.com
Employment and Education
From 01/2017: Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Institute of Neuroscience and Global Brain Health Institute, Trinity College Dublin
2013-2017: Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychology, New York University (w/ Nathaniel Daw & Elizabeth Phelps) and University of Cambridge (w/ Trevor Robbins)
2012-2013: MRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute, University of Cambridge
2009-2012: PhD: Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge
Supervisor: Professor Trevor Robbins; Advisor: Professor Barbara Sahakian 2006-2009: BA (First Class Honours/GPA 4.0): Psychology, University College Dublin Journal Articles
Gillan CM & Daw ND(in press). Taking psychiatry research online. Neuron.
Ersche KD, Gillan CM, Jones PS, Williams GB, LuitjenM, de Wit S, Ward LHE, Sahakian BJ, BullmoreET, and Robbins TW (in press). Carrots and sticks fail to change behavior in cocaine addiction. Science.
Gillan CM, Kosinski M, Whelan R, Phelps EA & Daw ND (2016). Characterizing a psychiatric symptom dimension related to deficits in goal-directed control. eLife, 5:e11305. doi: 10.7554/eLife.11305
Gillan CM, Robbins TW, Sahakian BJ, van den Heuvel O & van Wingen G (2015). The role of habit in compulsivity. European Neuropsychopharmacology, doi: 10.1016/j.euroneuro.2015.12.033
Gillan CM, Otto AR, Phelps EA, Daw ND (2015). Model-based learning protects against forming habits. Cognitive Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience, 15(3), 523-36. doi: 10.3758/s13415-015-0347-6
Gillan CM, Apergis-Schoute A, Morein-Zamir S, Urcelay GP, Sule A, Fineberg NA, Sahakian BJ, Robbins TW (2015). Functional neuroimaging of avoidance habits in OCD. American Journal of Psychiatry, AiA:1–10, doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2014.14040525
Gillan CM & Sahakian BJ (2015). What is the driver, obsessions or compulsions in OCD? Neuropsychopharmacology, 40(1):247-8. doi: 10.1038/npp.2014.201
Gillan CM & Robbins TW (2014). Goal-directed learning and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 5;369(1655). pii: 20130475. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0475
Voon V, Derbyshire K, Rück C, Irvine MA, Worbe Y, Enander J, Schreiber LRN, Gillan CM, Fineberg NA, Sahakian BJ, Robbins TW, Harrison NA, Wood J, Daw ND, Dayan P Grant JE, Bullmore ET (2014). Disorders of compulsivity: a common bias towards learning habits. Molecular Psychiatry, doi: 10.1038/mp.2014.44
Gillan CM, Morein-Zamir S, Durieux, A, Fineberg NA, Sahakian BJ, Robbins TW (2014). Obsessive-compulsive disorder patients have a reduced sense of control on the illusion of control task. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 204
Fineberg NA, Chamberlain SR, Goudriaan AE, Stein DJ, Vanderschuren LJMJ, Gillan CM, Shekar S, Gorwood PAPM, Voon V, Morein-Zamir S, Denys D, Sahakian BJ, Moeller GF, Robbins TW, Potenza MN (2014). New Developments in Human Neurocognition: Clinical, Genetic and Brain Imaging Correlates of Impulsivity and Compulsivity. CNS Spectrums,19, pp 69-89 doi:10.1017/S1092852913000801
Gillan CM, Morein-Zamir S, Urcelay GP, Sule A, Voon V, Apergis-Schoute A, Fineberg NA, Sahakian BJ, Robbins TW (2014). Enhanced avoidance habits in obsessive-compulsive disorder. Biological Psychiatry, 75(8), 631-8
Gillan CM, Morein-Zamir S, Kaser M, Fineberg NA, Sule A, Sahakian BJ, Cardinal R, Robbins TW. (2014) Counterfactual decision-making in obsessive-compulsive disorder: further evidence for impaired goal-directed control. Biological Psychiatry, 75(8), 639-46 Morein-Zamir S, Papmeyer M, Gillan CM, Fineberg NA, Robbins TW, Sahakian BJ (2013).
Punishment induces an impulsive response style in OCD: Evidence from a motivational go/no go task, Psychological Medicine, 43 (2), 391-400
Robbins TW, Gillan CM, Smith D, de Wit S, Ersche KD (2012). Neurocognitive endophenotypes; a dimensional approach to psychiatry. Trends in Cognitive Neuroscience, 2012; 16(1): 81-91
Gillan CM, Papmeyer M, Morein-Zamir S,Sahakian BJ, Fineberg NA, Robbins TW, de Wit S (2011). Disrupted balance between goal-directed behavior versus habit learning in obsessive-compulsive disorder. American Journal of Psychiatry. 2011; 168(7):718-26 Book Chapters
Gillan, CM, Urcelay, GU & Robbins, TW(in press). An associative account of avoidance. In Handbook of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning. Eds. Murphy & Honey. Wiley and Sons
Gillan CM. (in press). Habit-learning. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Phenomenology, Pathophysiology and Treatment. Ed. C. Pittenger. Oxford University Press.
In Revision/Under Review
Godier L, de Wit S, Pinto A, Steinglass J, Greene AL, Gillan CM, Walsh BT, Simpson HB & Park RJ (in revision at Psychiatry Research). An investigation of habit learning in Anorexia Nervosa.
Gillan CM & Robbins TW (under review). A trans-diagnostic perspective on obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Apergis-Schoute AM, Gillan CM, Fineberg NA, Fernandez-Egea E, Sahakian BJ, Robbins TW (under review). Ventromedial prefrontal cortical hyperactivity predicts inflexible updating of safety signals in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.
Tobias-Webb J, Aitken MRF, Gillan CM, Moore J & Clark L (under review). Let me take the wheel: dissociating measure of illusory control and the relationship to sense of agency. Working Manuscripts
Bruhl AB*, Gillan CM*, van Ghesel Grothe AS, Dafflon J, Farner M, Morein-Zamir S, Robbins TW, Sahakian BJ (in prep). Effects of acute stress and anxiety induced by the inhalation of air enriched with CO2 on model-based learning.
Gillan CM & Whelan R (invited by Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, in prep). How big data can help innovation in psychiatry.
*indicates shared first author University/Institution Talks
• Columbia University/New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, USA. June, 2016
• Zucker Hillside Hospital, Northwell OCD Center, New Jersey, USA. June, 2016 • University College London, Affective Brain Lab, London, UK. May, 2016 (webinar) • Massachusetts General Hospital, Psychiatry Department, Massachusetts, USA. May,
2016
• Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Neuroscience and Psychiatry Series, New York, USA. March, 2016
• University College London, Max Planck Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing Research, London, UK. December, 2015
• Rutgers University (New Brunswick), Computational Cognitive Neuropsychiatry Seminar Series, New Jersey, USA. November, 2015
• Princeton University, Princeton Neuroscience Institute, NJ, USA. September, 2015 • University of San Diego, Department of Cognitive Science, California, USA. September,
2015 (webinar)
• University of Cambridge, Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute, Cambridge, UK. July, 2015
• University of Zurich, Translational Neuromodeling Unit, Zurich, Switzerland. July, 2015 • Columbia University, Department of Psychiatry, New York, USA. March, 2015
• Cornell University, Weill Medical College,Sackler Institute, New York, USA. January, 2015
• University College Dublin, School of Psychology, Ireland. December, 2014
• Trinity College Dublin, Neuroscience Society (Neurosoc),Ireland. December, 2014 • Kyoto University, Department of Psychiatry, Japan. December, 2014
• Columbia University/New York State Psychiatric Institute, Department of Psychiatry, New York, USA. May, 2014
• Rutgers University (Newark), Department of Psychology, New Jersey, USA. May, 2014 • Yale University, Department of Psychiatry. Connecticut, USA. October, 2013
• NewYorkUniversity, Department of Psychology. New York, USA. October, 2013 • Oxford University, Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford, UK. October, 2013 • Oxford University, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Oxford, UK. August, 2012 • New York University, Department of Psychology, New York, USA. August, 2012 • University of Cambridge, Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Symposium,
Cambridge, UK. April, 2012
• Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts, USA. November, 2011
• University of Cambridge, Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute, Cambridge, UK. October, 2010
Conference Presentations
• Conte Center for Research in OCD. Rochester, NY. October, 2016 (Invited Speaker) • Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA). Philadelphia, USA. April,
2016 (Symposium Speaker x 2)
• Computational and Systems Neuroscience (Cosyne). Utah, USA. February, 2016 (Workshop Speaker)
• Society for Neuroscience. Chicago, USA. October, 2015 (Speaker)
• Trans-Continental Computational Psychiatry Workgroup. September, 2015 (Webinar) • British Association for Psychopharmacology. Bristol, UK. July 2015 (Award Recipient,
Invited Speaker and Poster)
• Society for Biological Psychiatry. Toronto, Canada. May 2015 (Speaker and Symposium Chair)
• Annual New England OCD Research Symposium. Connecticut, USA.March, 2015 (Speaker)
• New Directions in Pain Neuroscience. Osaka, Japan. December, 2014 (Invited Speaker) • British Association of Psychopharmacology, InSRI satellite meeting. Cambridge UK.
July, 2014 (Invited Speaker)
• Society for Biological Psychiatry. New York, USA. May, 2014 (Speaker)
• Annual New England OCD Research Symposium. Connecticut, USA.March, 2014 (Speaker)
• Society for Neuroscience. San Diego, USA. November, 2013. (Poster)
• World Congress of Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies. Lima, Peru. July, 2013. (Invited Speaker)
• British Neuroscience Association. London, UK. April, 2013. (Poster)
• Associative Learning Symposium XVII. Gregynog, Wales, UK. March, 2013 (Speaker) • Society for Neuroscience. New Orleans, USA. October, 2012. (Speaker)
• Society for Neuroscience. Washington, D.C., USA. November, 2011. (Poster) • British Neuroscience Association. Harrogate, UK. April, 2011. (Poster)
• Italian Society of Psychopathology. Rome, Italy. February, 2011. (Invited Speaker) • Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting. San Diego, USA. November, 2010. (Poster) Awards and Grants
• Ziskind-Somerfeld Research Award for Outstanding Research Investigations in Biological
Psychiatry, Honorable Mention: 2015
• Junior Investigator Award, British Association for Psychopharmacology: 2015 • Postdoc Travel Award, British Association for Psychopharmacology: 2015 • UK Science & Innovation Network Travel Grant: 2014
• InSRI Annual Meeting Poster Award: 2014 • Guarantors of Brain Travel Award: 2013
• Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship: 2013-2017 (£250,000) • Isaac Newton Trust Public Engagement Grant - Pint of Science: 2013
• Medical Research Council Centenary Postdoctoral Fellowship: 2012-2013 (£30,000) • Oon Khye Beng Chʹhia Tsio Studentship Award: 2011
• Downing College Academic Travel Award: 2011 • Oon Khye Beng Chʹhia Tsio Studentship Award: 2010 • Medical Research Council PhD Studentship: 2009-2012 • Cambridge European Trust Studentship (declined): 2009 • Hodson Endowment Award: 2006
• University College Dublin, Entrance Scholarship: 2006
Teaching Classes
2015-2016: Masters Research Course. New York University 2015: Masters Reading Course. New York University
2011-2013: Abnormal Psychology. University of Cambridge 2011-2013: Learning Theory. University of Cambridge Research Project Supervisor
2014-2016: Masters Psychology Research Project Supervisor. New York University (two students; MAs expected in 2016)
2012-2013: Undergraduate Neuroscience Research Project Supervisor. University of Cambridge (two students, awarded 2.1 and 1.1, respectively)
Peer-Review (22 journals)
American Journal of Psychiatry * Biological Psychiatry * British Journal of Psychiatry * Clinical Psychological Science * Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience * Cognition and Emotion * Depression and Anxiety * European Journal of Neuroscience * Human Brain Mapping * JAMA psychiatry * Journal of Behavioral Addictions * Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science * Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders * Journal of Psychiatry and Clinical Practice * Neuropsychopharmacology * Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews * Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) * Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry * Psychiatry Research * Psychological Medicine * Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology * Schizophrenia Research
Grant Review
Medical Research Council (UK) Current Professional Memberships
Anxiety and Depression Association of America * Society of Biological Psychiatry * British Association for Psychopharmacology * Society for Neuroscience
Public Engagement and Media Attention
Op-ed: I wrote ‘How Habits Shape Belief’ for New Scientist (2014).
Documentaries: I have presented my research on ‘Growing Children’, BBC (2012), ‘Inside My Mind’, BBC (2013) and a short film for Aeon (2016). My work was featured in another BBC documentary this year called ‘OCD – a monster in my mind’ (2015).
Outreach: I am a co-founder of a public science festival, Pint of Science, which first took place in Cambridge in 2013. I helped bring the festival to NYC for the first time in 2014, giving a talk for the public and recording a podcast that aired in January, 2015. I also communicate research output directly to patients, giving talks at support groups: Cam-Mind, Cambridge UK and the Manhattan Adult ADHD Support Group.
Other: In 2014, I was profiled on a list of the 30 Top Thinkers under 30 in Pacific Standard magazine, and nominated for the Forbes30 under 30 in Science. My research has been featured in many other news media outlets, including Scientific American.
