Christina Perry is a Senior Lecturer in Behavioural Neuroscience at Macquarie University. She completed her PhD at the University of New South Wales, focusing on the role of opioids in striatopallidal circuitry associated with reward-seeking and relapse. Her postdoctoral research took place at the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health in Melbourne, where she worked with prominent researchers Andrew Lawrence and Jee Hyun Kim. Dr. Perry's research primarily investigates addiction, particularly the mechanisms underlying relapse in substance use disorders. She has secured early career fellowships and research development awards to explore how chronic alcohol use interacts with cognitive aging and how exercise may mitigate relapse. Her teaching responsibilities include courses on Physiological Psychology and Biopsychology Learning, as well as supervision of Honours, Masters, and PhD candidates. Dr. Perry's ongoing research projects delve into the role of the zona incerta in extinction of conditioned fear responses and the effects of voluntary exercise on relapse behaviours. She collaborates with various institutions and has contributed to a diverse range of projects aimed at understanding motivated behaviour.
Macquarie University • Sydney, Australia
Teaching and research in the field of Behavioural Neuroscience.