Department of Psychology, New York University cg125@nyu.edu 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, Luitjen M, de Wit S, Ward LHE, Sahakian BJ, Bullmore ET, 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 obsessivecompulsive 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 New York University, 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 Forbes 30 under 30 in Science. My research has been featured in many other news media outlets, including Scientific American.