Robert D Rogers DPhil, CPsychol
Research Areas
Medical Sciences Division Themes
- Neuroscience
Neuroscience Sub-Themes
Neuroscience Keywords
- Personality Disorders
- Affective Neuroscience
- Addiction
- Borderline Personality Disorder
- Bipolar Disorder
- Compulsivity
- Decision-Making
- fMRI
- Prefrontal Cortex
- Psychopharmacology
- Reward
- Serotonin
- Social Neuroscience
Techniques and Equipment
Group Members
- Amy Bilderbeck, DPhil
- Daniel Campbell-Meiklejohn, DPhil
- Rebecca Chandler, DPhil
- Ashley Knight, RA
- Dr Joanne Llloyd, Post-doc
- Ruobing Shao, DPhil
- Judi Wakeley, RA
Collaborators
- Prof Tom Burns, Psychiatry
- Prof Phil Cowen, Psychiatry
- Prof William Dutton, Oxford Internet Institute
- Prof Guy Goodwin, Psychiatry
- Dr Catherine Harmer, Psychiatry
- Dr Jim Rilling, Emory University
- Prof Alfons Schnitzler, Bangor University
- Dr Jenny Yiend, Psychiatry
| robert.rogers@psych.ox.ac.uk | |
| Department |
Department of Psychiatry
Department of Experimental Psychology |
| College | Jesus College |
www.oxfordgamblingsurvey.org
Since arriving in Oxford, my group has investigated the neural and neurochemical substrates of emotional (and irrational) decision-making in non-social and social contexts. Recently, we have extended this work into the neural mechanisms underlying psychological disorders such as problem gambling and bipolar disorder. These experiments include studying the role of serotonin and dopamine in shifts between risk-seeking and risk-averse behaviour, and the neural substrates of cognitive biases in gambling behaviour, such as loss-chasing.
Our neurobiological research is informed by other projects that focus upon the clinical aspects of problem-gambling. We are conducting a web-based survey of the psychological and clinical characteristics of users of online gambling sites, focusing upon the experiences of occasional and regular gamblers, as well as the risk factors for problem online gambling (http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/project.cfm?id=40).
Most recently, we have begun investigating the roles of the monoamines in social decision-making using game-theoretic models of reciprocal cooperative exchanges as a way of understanding the deficits in social function that acts as a risk factor in unipolar depression.
Sources of Funding
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council 2004- 2007
- Economic and Social Research Council/Responsibility in Gambling Trust 2006- 2007
- Medical Research Council 2008- 2012
Biography
My first degree was a BA in Philosophy from King’s College, London. Subsequently, I gained a MSc in the Foundations of Advanced Information Technology from Imperial College London, followed by a PhD in Cognitive Psychology from Cambridge University. My post-doctoral research was completed with the Wellcome Trust Cognitive Neuroscience Group, also at Cambridge. I was appointed to my current position at the University Department of Psychiatry in October 1999.
Selected Publications
- Campbell-Meiklejohn D K, Woolrich M W, Passingham R E, and Rogers R D (2007) Knowing When to Stop: The Brain Mechanisms of Chasing Losses. Biol Psychiatry.
- Kirkpatrick Tim, Joyce Eileen, Milton John, Duggan Conor, Tyrer Peter, and Rogers Robert D (2007) Altered emotional decision-making in prisoners with borderline personality disorder. J Personal Disord, 21(3):243-61.
- Rogers Robert D, Wakeley Judi, Robson Phillip J, Bhagwagar Zubin, and Makela Petra (2007) The effects of low doses of delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol on reinforcement processing in the risky decision-making of young healthy adults. Neuropsychopharmacology, 32(2):417-28.
- Morgan Michael J, Impallomeni Lara C, Pirona Alessandro, and Rogers Robert D (2006) Elevated impulsivity and impaired decision-making in abstinent Ecstasy (MDMA) users compared to polydrug and drug-naive controls. Neuropsychopharmacology, 31(7):1562-73.
- Wood Richard M, Rilling James K, Sanfey Alan G, Bhagwagar Zubin, and Rogers Robert D (2006) Effects of tryptophan depletion on the performance of an iterated Prisoner's Dilemma game in healthy adults. Neuropsychopharmacology, 31(5):1075-84.
- Rogers Robert D, Ramnani Narender, Mackay Clare, Wilson James L, Jezzard Peter, Carter Cameron S, and Smith Stephen M (2004) Distinct portions of anterior cingulate cortex and medial prefrontal cortex are activated by reward processing in separable phases of decision-making cognition. Biol Psychiatry, 55(6):594-602.
- Harmer C J, Rogers R D, Tunbridge E, Cowen P J, and Goodwin G M (2003) Tryptophan depletion decreases the recognition of fear in female volunteers. Psychopharmacology (Berl), 167(4):411-7.
- Rogers Robert D, Tunbridge Elizabeth M, Bhagwagar Zubin, Drevets Wayne C, Sahakian Barbara J, and Carter Cameron S (2003) Tryptophan depletion alters the decision-making of healthy volunteers through altered processing of reward cues. Neuropsychopharmacology, 28(1):153-62.
