Benjamin Phillips

Jan 20, 2025 | biorxiv.org | Laura Lopez-Cruz |Benjamin Phillips |Lisa M. Saksida |Christopher Heath

AbstractA major obstacle in the pre-clinical study of mood-related disorders and novel affective state therapeutic evaluation is the lack of animal models that fully recapitulate human symptomatology. In this study, we developed a touchscreen-based Go/No Go cognitive judgement bias (CJB) task for mice.

Apr 12, 2024 | journals.plos.org | Benjamin Phillips |Timo N. Haschler |Bioscience Renal

In our original paper [1], we concluded that inclusion of both sexes does not require an increase in sample size by default. Drobniak and colleagues [2] have helpfully highlighted an exception to this general rule, in cases where the variability for a trait differs between the sexes. In these situations, the statistical analysis needs amending to account for the unequal variance and there is a potential power penalty [2].

Mar 27, 2024 | medrxiv.org | Benjamin Phillips |Victoria Skerrett |Alan Jones |Ismay Evans

The authors have declared no competing interest. This study did not receive any funding. I confirm all relevant ethical guidelines have been followed, and any necessary IRB and/or ethics committee approvals have been obtained.

Dec 3, 2023 | nature.com | James H. Stagge |Max Torbenson |Kyungmin Sung |Benjamin Phillips

AbstractA large proportion of western North America experiences regular water stress, compounded by high seasonal and interannual variability. In the Intermountain West region, the El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a critical control on winter precipitation, but the nature of this signal is entangled with a combination of orographic effects and long-term climate trends.

Aug 9, 2023 | biorxiv.org | Katharina Zuhlsdorff |Benjamin Phillips |Mona El-Sayed Hervig |Sarah F. Olesen

AbstractCognitive flexibility, the ability to adapt behavior in response to a changing environment, is disrupted in several neuropsychiatric disorders, including obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and major depressive disorder (MDD). Evidence suggests that flexibility, which can be operationalized using reversal learning tasks, is modulated by serotonergic transmission.