Vincenzo G. Fiore, PhD, Assistant professor

 

Present and Past Grants

• 10 Jun 2024 – 31 Jan 2029 – NIMH Research Grant. R01MH133625
  Role: contact Principal Investigator (Figee M, Principal Investigator). Title: “Neurocomputational mechanisms and connectivity dynamics underlying obsessive-compulsive disorder and phenotypical differentiations.”
• 01 Dec 2022 – 30 Nov 2024 – NIMH Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant. R21MH129898
  Role: Principal Investigator (Berner LA, contact Principal Investigator). Title: “The computational role of corticostriatal circuits in binge-eating disorder symptoms and severity.”
• 01 Aug 2019 – 31 Jul 2021 – NIDA Exploratory/Developmental Research Grant Award. R21DA049243
  Role: co-Investigator (Gu X, contact Principal Investigator). Title: “Neurocomputational Mechanisms for Addiction Heterogeneity, Impulsivity and Perseverance”

 

Publications

Here is a complete list of my publications on PubMed and my page on Google Scholar

* These authors contributed equally.

• Hazlett EA, Fiore VG, Shafritz KM, et al. 2025 Aberrant effective connectivity during working memory performance in schizotypal personality disorder and schizophrenia: A spectrum approach. Neuropsychopharmacol. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41386-025-02295-w
• Ramakrishnan SA, Shaik RB, Kanagamani T, Neppala G, Chen J, Fiore VG, Hammond CJ, Srinivasan S, Ivanov I, Chakravarthy VS, Kool W, Parvaz MA. 2025 Impaired arbitration between reward-related decision-making strategies in Alcohol Users compared to Alcohol Non-Users: a computational modeling study. NPP—Digit Psychiatry Neurosci 3, 1. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44277-024-00023-8
• Park J, Lee S, Gu X, Fiore VG, Sul S, Chung D. 2024. Motivational and behavioral mechanisms underlying generalized health risking behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic in smokers. Sci Rep 14, 30292. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-81898-7
• McLaughlin C, Fu QX, Na S, Heflin M, Chung D, Fiore VG, Gu X. 2024. Aberrant neural computation of social controllability in nicotine-dependent humans. Commun Biol 7, 988.  https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-06638-z
• Perl O, Shuster A, Heflin M, Na S, Kidwai A, Booker N, Putnam WC, Fiore VG, Gu X. 2024. Nicotine-related beliefs induce dose-dependent responses in the human brain. Nat. Mental Health. doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s44220-023-00188-9 
• Wilkinson CS, Luján MÁ, Hales C, Costa KM, Fiore VG, Knackstedt LA, Kober H. 2023. Listening to the Data: Computational Approaches to Addiction and Learning. J. Neurosci. 43 (45) 7547-7553; doi: https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1415-23.2023
• Kokorikou DS, Sarigiannidis I, Fiore VG, Parkin B, Hopkins A, El-Deredy W, Dilley L and Moutoussis M. 2023. Testing hypotheses about the harm that capitalism causes to the mind and brain: a theoretical framework for neuroscience research. Front. Sociol. 8:1030115. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2023.1030115
• Na S*, Rhoads SA*, Yu ANC, Fiore VG, Gu X. 2023. Towards a neurocomputational account of social controllability: From models to mental health. Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 20;148:105139. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105139.
• Fiore VG, Smith AH, Figee M. 2023. Commentary: Toward Personalized Deep Brain Stimulation for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Biol Psychiatry Cogn Neurosci Neuroimaging. 8(3): 235-237
• Kato A, Shimomura K, Ognibene D, Parvaz MA, Berner LA, Morita K, Fiore VG. 2023. Computational models of behavioral addictions: state of the art and future directions. Addictive Behaviors. 140:107595. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2022.107595
• Berner LA*, Fiore VG*, Chen J, Krueger A, Kaye WH, Viranda T, de Wit S. 2023. Impaired belief updating and devaluation in adult women with bulimia nervosa. Translational Psychiatry. Transl Psychiatry 13:2. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-022-02257-6
• Kulkarni KR*, Schafer M*, Berner LA, Fiore VG, Heflin M, Hutchison K, Calhoun V, Filbey F, Pandey G, Schiller D, GuX. 2022. An interpretable and predictive connectivity-based neural signature for chronic cannabis use. Biol Psychiatry Cogn Neurosci Neuroimaging. 31:S2451-9022(22)00126-4. Doi: https://doi.org/doi.org/10.1016/j.bpsc.2022.04.009
• Na S, Blackmore S, Chung D, O’Brien M, Banker S, Heflin M, Fiore VG, Gu X. 2022. Computational Mechanisms Underlying Illusion of Control in Delusional Individuals. Schizophrenia Research. 14:S0920-9964(22)00065-2. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.schres.2022.01.054.
• Fiore VG, Gu X. 2022. Similar network compositions, but distinct neural dynamics underlying belief updating in environments with and without explicit outcomes. NeuroImage. 247:118821. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118821.
• Na S, Chung D, Hula A, Jung J, Fiore VG, Dayan P, Gu X. 2021. Humans Use Forward Thinking to Exert Social Control. eLife 10e64983. doi: https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.64983
• Shuster A, O’Brien M, Luo Y, Berner LA, Perl O, Heflin M, Kulkarni K, Chung D, Na S, Fiore VG, Gu X. 2021. Emotional adaptation during a crisis: decline in anxiety and depression after the initial weeks of COVID-19 in the United States. Transl. Psychiatry 11, 435. doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-021-01552-y
• Fiore VG, De Felice N, Glicksberg BS, Perl O, Shuster A, Kulkarni K, O’Brien M, Pisauro MA, Chung D, Gu X. 2021. Containment of COVID-19: simulating the impact of different policies and testing capacities for contact tracing, testing, and isolation. PLoS One 16(3): e0247614. doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0247614
• Fiore VG, Guertler A-CV, Yu J-C, Tatineni CC, Gu X. 2021. A change of mind: globus pallidus activity and effective connectivity during changes in choice selections. Eur J Neurosci. 53: 2774– 2787. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.15142
• Yu J-C*, Fiore VG*, Briggs RW, Braud J, Rubia K, Adinoff B, Gu X. 2020. An insula‐driven network computes decision uncertainty and promotes abstinence in chronic cocaine users. Eur J Neurosci. 52: 4923– 4936. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.14917
• Ognibene D, Fiore VG, Gu X. 2019. Addiction beyond pharmacological effects: the role of environment complexity and bounded rationality. Neural Netw. 116:269-278 doi: 10.1016/j.neunet.2019.04.022
  https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0893608019301285
• Fiore VG, Ognibene D, Adinoff B, Gu X. 2018. A Multilevel Computational Characterization of Endophenotypes in Addiction. ENeuro. 5(4).0151-18.2018; doi:10.1523/ENEURO.0151-18.2018
  http://www.eneuro.org/content/5/4/ENEURO.0151-18.2018
• Fiore VG, Nolte T, Rigoli F, Smittenaar P, Gu X, Dolan RJ. 2018. Value Encoding in the Globus Pallidus: fMRI reveals an interaction effect between reward and dopaminergic drive. NeuroImage. 173:249-257. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.02.048
  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5929903/
• Fiore VG, Kottler B, Gu X, Hirth F. 2017. In silico interrogation of insect central complex suggests computational roles for ellipsoid body in spatial navigation. Front Behav Neurosci doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2017.00142
  http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnbeh.2017.00142/abstract
• Fiore VG, Rigoli F, Stenner MP, Zaehle T, Hirth F, Heinze HJ, Dolan RJ. 2016. Changing pattern in the basal ganglia: motor switching under reduced dopaminergic drive. Sci. Rep. 6: 23327. doi: 10.1038/srep23327
  http://www.nature.com/articles/srep23327
• Hauser TU, Fiore VG, Moutoussis M, Dolan RJ. 2016. Computational psychiatry of ADHD: Neural gain impairments across Marrian levels of analysis . Trends Neurosci., doi: 10.1016/j.tins.2015.12.009
  http://www.cell.com/trends/neurosciences/fulltext/S0166-2236(15)00283-0
  
• Fiore VG, Dolan RJ, Strausfeld NJ, Hirth F. 2015. Evolutionary conserved mechanisms for the selection and maintenance of behavioural activity. Philosophical Transactions B. 370, 20150053 . DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0053
  http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/370/1684/20150053
• Fiore VG, Mannella F, Mirolli M, Latagliata EC, Valzania A, Cabib S, Dolan RJ, Puglisi-Allegra S, Baldassarre G. 2015. Corticolimbic catecholamines in stress: a computational model of the appraisal of controllability. Brain Structure and Function.220(3):1339-1353. Epub 2014 Feb 28 Doi: 10.1007/s00429-014-0727-7
  http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs00429-014-0727-7.pdf
• Fiore VG, Sperati V, Mannella F, Mirolli M, Gurney K, Friston K, Dolan RJ, Baldassarre G. 2014. Keep focussing: striatal dopamine multiple functions resolved in a single mechanism tested in a simulated humanoid robot. Front. Psychol. 5:124. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00124
  http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00124/abstract#sthash.lONLVv8C.dpuf
• Taffoni F, Formica D, Schiavone G, Scorcia M, Tomassetti A, Polizzi di Sorrentino E, Sabbatini G, Truppa V, Mannella F, Fiore VG, et al. 2013. The “Mechatronic Board”: A Tool to Study Intrinsic Motivations in Humans, Monkeys, and Humanoid Robots. In G.Baldassarre and M.Mirolli (Eds.): Intrinsically Motivated Learning in Natural and Artificial Systems, Springer Berlin Heidelberg pages 411-432
• Baldassarre G, Mannella F, Fiore VG, Redgrave P, Gurney K, Mirolli M. 2013. Intrinsically motivated action-outcome learning and goal-based action recall: a system-level bio-constrained computational model. Neural Netw. 41:168-187. doi: 10.1016/j.neunet.2012.09.015
  Preprint in pdf – http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0893608012002560
• Fiore VG. 2010. Multiple realizations of the mental states – hunting for plausible chimeras. In M. D’Agostino et al. (Eds.): New Essays in Logic and Philosophy of Science, Kings College Publications: London, pages 529-538.
  Preprint in pdf.
• Fiore VG, Mannella F, Mirolli M, Gurney K, Baldassarre G. 2008. Instrumental Conditioning Driven by Neutral Stimuli: A Model Tested with a Simulated Robotic Rat. In M. Schlesinger et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 8th conference on Epigenetic Robotics, in University of Sussex, UK. Lund University Cognitive Studies, 139, pages 13-20.
  Final version in pdf.

 

In Italian

• Rizzoni, M. Calvano, R. et al. 2014. Libro Bianco – Università e Ricerca. Guidoni U, Fiore VG, et al. (Eds.) Rubbettino editore. ISBN 9788849841237