2021 Sex & Gender Differences Competitive Fellowship Awardee
Tanner is a third year PhD student in Psychology working in Rutsuko Ito's lab. His lab is interested in approach-avoidance conflict behaviour in rats, or decision making in the presence of mixed appetitive and aversive signals. He has specifically explored sex differences in conflict behaviour and how conflict behaviour relates to alcohol drinking in a sex-dependent fashion. In his current project he is investigating the involvement of certain brain regions in decision making during an ethanol conflict choice task, hoping to identify neural substrates that may underlie sex differences in both conflict and drinking behaviour.
