Trevor W. Robbins

194.6k citations

1.1k papers · 140.3k indexed · 57 hit papers · h-index 213

Cognitive Neuroscience top 0.01%
Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience top 0.01%
Psychiatry and Mental health top 0.01%
Clinical Psychology top 0.01%
Molecular Biology top 0.05%

Co-authors: Barry J. Everitt Barbara J. Sahakian Jeffrey W. Dalley Angela Roberts Adam R. Aron Luke Clark Adrian M. Owen Roger A. Barker
Topics: Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior (382 papers)Memory and Neural Mechanisms (284 papers)Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (260 papers)
Cited by: Cognitive Neuroscience Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience Behavioral Neuroscience
Journals: Nature Science Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Partner nations: United Kingdom United States Netherlands

In The Last Decade

Trevor W. Robbins

1.0k papers receiving 137.2k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Neural systems of reinforcement for drug addiction: from actions to habits to compulsion

2005 2.8k citations Barry J. Everitt, Trevor W. Robbins profile →
Inhibition and the right inferior frontal cortex

2004 2.4k citations Trevor W. Robbins et al. profile →
Inhibition and the right inferior frontal cortex: one decade on

2014 1.4k citations Trevor W. Robbins et al. profile →
Stop-signal inhibition disrupted by damage to right inferior frontal gyrus in humans

2003 1.4k citations Paul C. Fletcher, Edward T. Bullmore et al. profile →
Inhibition and impulsivity: Behavioral and neural basis of response control

2013 1.4k citations Trevor W. Robbins et al. profile →
Dissociation in prefrontal cortex of affective and attentional shifts

1996 1.2k citations Trevor W. Robbins et al. profile →
Impulsivity, Compulsivity, and Top-Down Cognitive Control

2011 1.1k citations Jeffrey W. Dalley, Barry J. Everitt et al. Neuron profile →
The Interaction of Person-Affect-Cognition-Execution (I-PACE) model for addictive behaviors: Update, generalization to addictive behaviors beyond internet-use disorders, and specification of the process character of addictive behaviors

2019 1.1k citations Trevor W. Robbins et al. profile →
CENTRAL CHOLINERGIC SYSTEMS AND COGNITION

1997 1.1k citations Barry J. Everitt, Trevor W. Robbins profile →
Prefrontal executive and cognitive functions in rodents: neural and neurochemical substrates

2004 1.0k citations Jeffrey W. Dalley, Rudolf N. Cardinal et al. profile →
The 5-choice serial reaction time task: behavioural pharmacology and functional neurochemistry

2002 1.0k citations Trevor W. Robbins profile →
Planning and spatial working memory following frontal lobe lesions in man

1990 1.0k citations Barbara J. Sahakian, Trevor W. Robbins et al. profile →
Nucleus Accumbens D2/3 Receptors Predict Trait Impulsivity and Cocaine Reinforcement

2007 921 citations Jeffrey W. Dalley, Kristjan Lääne et al. Science profile →
Neurobehavioural mechanisms of reward and motivation

1996 917 citations Trevor W. Robbins, Barry J. Everitt profile →
Putting a spin on the dorsal–ventral divide of the striatum

2004 894 citations Trevor W. Robbins et al. profile →
Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery (CANTAB): A Factor Analytic Study of a Large Sample of Normal Elderly Volunteers

1994 855 citations Trevor W. Robbins, Barbara J. Sahakian et al. profile →
The role of prefrontal cortex in cognitive control and executive function

2021 793 citations Naomi P. Friedman, Trevor W. Robbins Neuropsychopharmacology profile →
Drug Addiction: Updating Actions to Habits to Compulsions Ten Years On

2015 765 citations Barry J. Everitt, Trevor W. Robbins profile →
The distinct cognitive syndromes of Parkinson's disease: 5 year follow-up of the CamPaIGN cohort

2009 736 citations Caroline H. Williams‐Gray, Trevor W. Robbins et al. Brain profile →
The Neuropsychopharmacology of Fronto-Executive Function: Monoaminergic Modulation

2009 729 citations Trevor W. Robbins et al. profile →
Evolution of cognitive dysfunction in an incident Parkinson's disease cohort

2007 729 citations Caroline H. Williams‐Gray, Trevor W. Robbins et al. Brain profile →
High Impulsivity Predicts the Switch to Compulsive Cocaine-Taking

2008 714 citations David Belin, Jeffrey W. Dalley et al. Science profile →
Neurocognitive endophenotypes of impulsivity and compulsivity: towards dimensional psychiatry

2011 701 citations Trevor W. Robbins, Claire M. Gillan et al. profile →
Neuropsychological and clinical heterogeneity of cognitive impairment and dementia in patients with Parkinson's disease

2010 700 citations Roger A. Barker, Trevor W. Robbins et al. profile →
Impulsive Choice Induced in Rats by Lesions of the Nucleus Accumbens Core

2001 697 citations Rudolf N. Cardinal, Trevor W. Robbins et al. Science profile →
Neural mechanisms underlying the vulnerability to develop compulsive drug-seeking habits and addiction

2008 693 citations Barry J. Everitt, David Belin et al. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences profile →
FRONTO-STRIATAL COGNITIVE DEFICITS AT DIFFERENT STAGES OF PARKINSON'S DISEASE

1992 681 citations Trevor W. Robbins et al. Brain profile →
Choosing between small, likely rewards and large, unlikely rewards activates inferior and orbital prefrontal cortex.

1999 651 citations Barbara J. Sahakian, Trevor W. Robbins et al. profile →
Decision-making processes following damage to the prefrontal cortex

2002 637 citations Barbara J. Sahakian, Michael R. F. Aitken et al. Brain profile →
The neuropsychology of obsessive compulsive disorder: the importance of failures in cognitive and behavioural inhibition as candidate endophenotypic markers

2005 636 citations Samuel R. Chamberlain, Naomi Fineberg et al. profile →
Effects of lesions to ascending noradrenergic neurones on performance of a 5-choice serial reaction task in rats; implications for theories of dorsal noradrenergic bundle function based on selective attention and arousal

1983 612 citations Trevor W. Robbins, Barry J. Everitt et al. profile →
Choosing between Small, Likely Rewards and Large, Unlikely Rewards Activates Inferior and Orbital Prefrontal Cortex

1999 612 citations Barbara J. Sahakian, Trevor W. Robbins et al. Journal of Neuroscience profile →
Defining the Neural Mechanisms of Probabilistic Reversal Learning Using Event-Related Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging

2002 609 citations Trevor W. Robbins et al. Journal of Neuroscience profile →
Behavioral models of impulsivity in relation to ADHD: Translation between clinical and preclinical studies

2006 598 citations Trevor W. Robbins et al. profile →
The neuropsychological basis of addictive behaviour

2001 561 citations Barry J. Everitt, Anthony Dickinson et al. profile →
Associative Processes in Addiction and Reward The Role of Amygdala‐Ventral Striatal Subsystems

1999 561 citations Barry J. Everitt, Trevor W. Robbins et al. profile →
A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF VISUOSPATIAL MEMORY AND LEARNING IN ALZHEIMER-TYPE DEMENTIA AND PARKINSON'S DISEASE

1988 558 citations Barbara J. Sahakian, Trevor W. Robbins et al. Brain profile →
Involvement of the amygdala in stimulus-reward associations: Interaction with the ventral striatum

1989 535 citations Trevor W. Robbins, Barry J. Everitt et al. profile →
Extra-dimensional versus intra-dimensional set shifting performance following frontal lobe excisions, temporal lobe excisions or amygdalo-hippocampectomy in man

1991 528 citations Barbara J. Sahakian, Trevor W. Robbins et al. profile →
Contrasting mechanisms of impaired attentional set-shifting in patients with frontal lobe damage or Parkinson's disease

1993 528 citations Trevor W. Robbins et al. Brain profile →
Different types of fear-conditioned behaviour mediated by separate nuclei within amygdala

1997 526 citations Trevor W. Robbins, Barry J. Everitt et al. profile →
Emotional bias and inhibitory control processes in mania and depression

1999 513 citations Barbara J. Sahakian, Trevor W. Robbins et al. profile →
Evidence for executive dysfunction in autism

1994 505 citations Trevor W. Robbins et al. profile →
Neural systems engaged by planning: a PET study of the Tower of London task

1996 503 citations Trevor W. Robbins et al. profile →
From the ventral to the dorsal striatum: Devolving views of their roles in drug addiction

2013 503 citations Barry J. Everitt, Trevor W. Robbins profile →
A study of performance on tests from the CANTAB battery sensitive to frontal lobe dysfunction in a large sample of normal volunteers: Implications for theories of executive functioning and cognitive aging

1998 501 citations Trevor W. Robbins, Barbara J. Sahakian et al. profile →
The cognitive ability of an incident cohort of Parkinson’s patients in the UK. The CamPaIGN study

2004 501 citations Trevor W. Robbins, Roger A. Barker et al. Brain profile →
l-Dopa withdrawal in Parkinson's disease selectively impairs cognitive performance in tests sensitive to frontal lobe dysfunction

1992 500 citations Trevor W. Robbins et al. profile →
Cognitive Inflexibility After Prefrontal Serotonin Depletion

2004 500 citations Jeffrey W. Dalley, Trevor W. Robbins et al. Science profile →
The CamPaIGN study of Parkinson's disease: 10-year outlook in an incident population-based cohort

2013 469 citations Caroline H. Williams‐Gray, Trevor W. Robbins et al. profile →
Decision-making in the adolescent brain

2012 467 citations Trevor W. Robbins et al. profile →
Disorders of compulsivity: a common bias towards learning habits

2014 428 citations Yulia Worbe, Claire M. Gillan et al. profile →
Fractionating impulsivity: neuropsychiatric implications

2017 416 citations Jeffrey W. Dalley, Trevor W. Robbins profile →
Cognitive Impairment in Parkinson’s Disease: The Dual Syndrome Hypothesis

2012 414 citations Roger A. Barker, Trevor W. Robbins et al. profile →
Characterizing mild cognitive impairment in incident Parkinson disease

2013 330 citations James B. Rowe, Trevor W. Robbins et al. profile →
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Puzzles and Prospects

2019 315 citations Trevor W. Robbins, Paula Banca et al. Neuron profile →
The transition to compulsion in addiction

2020 277 citations Trevor W. Robbins, Barry J. Everitt et al. profile →

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1	Effects of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) at different cortical targets on cognition in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD): an exploratory analysis 2025 ·International Clinical Psychopharmacology ·Luca Pellegrini,Eduardo Cinosi,David Wellsted,Megan Smith,Amanda Busby,Natalie Hall,Umberto Albert,(unknown),Matthew Garner,Samuel R. Chamberlain,Trevor W. Robbins,David S. Baldwin,Naomi Fineberg	0
2	Study Protocol for ‘PsilOCD: A Pharmacological Challenge Study Evaluating the Effects of the 5-HT2A Agonist Psilocybin on the Neurocognitive and Clinical Correlates of Compulsivity’ 2025 ·eScholarship (California Digital Library) ·Sean O’Connor,(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),Trevor W. Robbins,(unknown),Robin J. Tyacke,(unknown),Dea Siggaard Stenbæk,(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),Jonny Martell,Robin Carhart‐Harris,Luca Pellegrini,Naomi Fineberg,David Nutt,David Erritzøe	1
3	Neural, cognitive and psychopathological signatures of a prosocial or delinquent peer environment during early adolescence 2025 ·Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience ·Yu Liu,(unknown),Xinran Wu,(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),Xi Jiang,Yufeng Zhang,Wei Cheng,(unknown),Barbara J. Sahakian,Xing‐Ming Zhao,Trevor W. Robbins,Benjamin Becker,Jie Zhang	0
4	Transdiagnostic neuromodulation of impulsivity: current status and future trajectories 2025 ·Translational Psychiatry ·(unknown),Tianzhen Chen,(unknown),Tara Rezapour,Abbas Haghparast,Haifeng Jiang,Hang Su,Ti‐Fei Yuan,Trevor W. Robbins,Jiang Du,Min Zhao	2
5	The role of psychosis and clozapine load in excessive checking in treatment-resistant schizophrenia: longitudinal observational study 2024 ·The British Journal of Psychiatry ·Emilio Fernández-Egea,Shanquan Chen,(unknown),Patricia Gassó,(unknown),(unknown),Isaac Jarratt Barnham,Núria Segarra,Sergi Mas,(unknown),Cristina Belén García,Naomi Fineberg,Yulia Worbe,Rudolf N. Cardinal,Trevor W. Robbins	2
6	Early-life stress biases responding to negative feedback and increases amygdala volume and vulnerability to later-life stress 2023 ·Translational Psychiatry ·(unknown),Laura López‐Cruz,(unknown),Mary-Ellen Lynall,(unknown),(unknown),Shahid A. Khan,Stephen J. Sawiak,Amy Milton,Menna R. Clatworthy,Trevor W. Robbins,Edward T. Bullmore,Jeffrey W. Dalley	9
7	Common and disorder-specific cortical thickness alterations in internalizing, externalizing and thought disorders during early adolescence: an Adolescent Brain and Cognitive Development study 2023 ·Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience ·Gechang Yu,Zhaowen Liu,Xinran Wu,Benjamin Becker,(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),Jujiao Kang,(unknown),Xing‐Ming Zhao,Günter Schumann,Jianfeng Feng,Barbara J. Sahakian,Trevor W. Robbins,Lena Palaniyappan,Jie Zhang	7
8	Locus Coeruleus Integrity Is Linked to Response Inhibition Deficits in Parkinson's Disease and Progressive Supranuclear Palsy 2023 ·Journal of Neuroscience ·Rong Ye,Frank H. Hezemans,Claire O’Callaghan,Kamen A. Tsvetanov,Catarina Rua,P. Simon Jones,Negin Holland,Maura Malpetti,Alexander G. Murley,Roger A. Barker,Caroline H. Williams‐Gray,Trevor W. Robbins,Luca Passamonti,James B. Rowe	7
9	Action sequence learning, habits, and automaticity in obsessive-compulsive disorder 2023 ·eLife ·Paula Banca,María Herrojo Ruiz,M. Fernando González-Zalba,(unknown),(unknown),Thomas Piercy,Akeem Sule,Naomi Fineberg,Trevor W. Robbins	1
10	Locus coeruleus integrity and the effect of atomoxetine on response inhibition in Parkinson’s disease 2021 ·Brain ·Claire O’Callaghan,Frank H. Hezemans,Rong Ye,Catarina Rua,P Simon Jones,Alexander G. Murley,Negin Holland,Ralf Regenthal,Kamen A. Tsvetanov,Noham Wolpe,Roger A. Barker,Caroline H. Williams‐Gray,Trevor W. Robbins,Luca Passamonti,James B. Rowe	59
11	The role of prefrontal cortex in cognitive control and executive functionbreakdown → 2021 ·Neuropsychopharmacology ·Naomi P. Friedman,Trevor W. Robbins	793
12	Neural basis of impaired safety signaling in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder 2017 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Annemieke M. Apergis-Schoute,Claire M. Gillan,Naomi Fineberg,Emilio Fernández-Egea,Barbara J. Sahakian,Trevor W. Robbins	110
13	Abnormal Brain Structure Implicated in Stimulant Drug Addiction 2012 ·Science ·Karen D. Ersche,P. Simon Jones,Guy Williams,Abigail J. Turton,Trevor W. Robbins,Edward T. Bullmore	402
14	Disruption in the Balance Between Goal-Directed Behavior and Habit Learning in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder 2011 ·American Journal of Psychiatry ·Claire M. Gillan,Martina Papmeyer,Sharon Morein‐Zamir,Barbara J. Sahakian,Naomi Fineberg,Trevor W. Robbins,Sanne de Wit	430
15	Neural mechanisms underlying the vulnerability to develop compulsive drug-seeking habits and addictionbreakdown → 2008 ·Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·Barry J. Everitt,David Belin,Daina Economidou,Yann Pelloux,Jeffrey W. Dalley,Trevor W. Robbins	693
16	Time-limited modulation of appetitive Pavlovian memory by D1 and NMDA receptors in the nucleus accumbens 2005 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Jeffrey W. Dalley,Kristjan Lääne,David Theobald,(unknown),Philip R. Corlett,Yogita Chudasama,Trevor W. Robbins	179
17	Prediction Error during Retrospective Revaluation of Causal Associations in HumansfMRI Evidence in Favor of an Associative Model of Learning 2004 ·Neuron ·Philip R. Corlett,Michael R. F. Aitken,(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),Trevor W. Robbins,Edward T. Bullmore,Paul C. Fletcher	76
18	Prediction Error during Retrospective Revaluation of Causal Associations in Humans 2004 ·Neuron ·Philip R. Corlett,Michael R. F. Aitken,Anthony Dickinson,David R. Shanks,G.D. Honey,R.A.E. Honey,Trevor W. Robbins,Edward T. Bullmore,Paul C. Fletcher	114
19	From arousal to cognition: the integrative position of the prefrontal cortex 2000 ·Progress in brain research ·Trevor W. Robbins	122
20	Increased acetylcholine release in the rat medial prefrontal cortex during performance of a visual attentional task 2000 ·European Journal of Neuroscience ·Filippo Passetti,Jeff Dalley,Mark T. O’Connell,Barry J. Everitt,Trevor W. Robbins	168

About Trevor W. Robbins

Trevor W. Robbins is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Behavioral Neuroscience, having authored 1.1k papers that have together received 140.3k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior (382 papers), Memory and Neural Mechanisms (284 papers) and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (260 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Cognitive Neuroscience (74.4k citations), Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience (60.6k citations) and Behavioral Neuroscience (10.7k citations). Trevor W. Robbins has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Netherlands. Frequent co-authors include Barry J. Everitt, Barbara J. Sahakian, Jeffrey W. Dalley, Angela Roberts, Adam R. Aron, Luke Clark, Adrian M. Owen, Roger A. Barker, Russell A. Poldrack and Edward T. Bullmore. Their work appears in journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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