Colin Hoy, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
Neurology
School of Medicine
I’m a neuroscientist and postdoctoral scholar in the UCSF Movement Disorders and Neuromodulation Center studying motivation in Parkinson’s disease with Drs. Simon Little and Phil Starr and neuroethics with Dr. Winston Chiong.
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In the Little and Starr Labs, our group aims to treat motor and nonmotor (e.g., sleep, cognition, emotion) deficits in patients with Parkinson’s disease using neurosurgically implanted deep brain stimulation (DBS) devices. My main research project focuses on understanding apathy and impulsivity symptoms in these patients by (1) measuring goal-directed and habitual decision making with computational reinforcement learning models; (2) mapping these cognitive processes to neural activity using chronic invasive brain recordings; and (3) modulating these neural circuits using dopaminergic medications and DBS.
With Dr. Chiong, I’m studying bioethics to better understand the ethical, legal, and social implications of neurotechnology. I hope that combining neuroethics with my basic and clinical neuroscience research will help inform guidelines for the responsible use of neurotechnology.
I graduated in 2012 from Hendrix College with a BA in Neuroscience before spending two years as a postbaccalaureate researcher at the National Institute of Mental Health working on functional MRI methods. In 2021, I graduated from UC Berkeley with a PhD in Neuroscience in which I studied cognitive control using intracranial brain recordings from epilepsy patients.
Awards
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- Graduate Research Fellowship, Greater Good Science Center, 2019-2021
- Graduate Research Fellowship, National Science Foundation, 2015-2018
- President's Medal, Hendrix College, 2012
- Goldwater Scholarship, Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation, 2011-2012
Education & Training
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- PhD Neuroscience University of California, Berkeley 08/2021
- BA Neuroscience Hendrix College 05/2012
Publications (10)
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Schizophrenia, ChildhoodLearningRewardRestTemporal LobeResearch PersonnelPrefrontal CortexPractice Guidelines as TopicFrontal LobeSexismElectroencephalographyThinkingUniversitiesMagnetic Resonance ImagingBrain
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Asymmetric coding of reward prediction errors in human insula and dorsomedial prefrontal cortex.
Nature communications 2023 Hoy CW, Quiroga-Martinez DR, Sandoval E, King-Stephens D, Laxer KD, Weber P, Lin JJ, Knight RT -
Beta and theta oscillations track effort and previous reward in human basal ganglia and prefrontal cortex during decision making.
bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2023 Hoy CW, de Hemptinne C, Wang SS, Harmer CJ, Apps MAJ, Husain M, Starr PA, Little S -
Using Neuroscientific and Clinical Context to Assess and Manage Changes in Core Personal Traits Caused by Deep Brain Stimulation.
AJOB neuroscience 2023 Hoy CW, Little SJ, Chiong W -
Single-trial modeling separates multiple overlapping prediction errors during reward processing in human EEG.
Communications biology 2021 Hoy CW, Steiner SC, Knight RT -
Gender bias in academia: A lifetime problem that needs solutions.
Neuron 2021 Llorens A, Tzovara A, Bellier L, Bhaya-Grossman I, Bidet-Caulet A, Chang WK, Cross ZR, Dominguez-Faus R, Flinker A, Fonken Y, Gorenstein MA, Holdgraf C, Hoy CW, Ivanova MV, Jimenez RT, Jun S, Kam JWY,…
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How to Interpret Resting-State fMRI: Ask Your Participants.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2021 Gonzalez-Castillo J, Kam JWY, Hoy CW, Bandettini PA -
Tracking ongoing cognition in individuals using brief, whole-brain functional connectivity patterns.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2015 Gonzalez-Castillo J, Hoy CW, Handwerker DA, Robinson ME, Buchanan LC, Saad ZS, Bandettini PA -
Brain network informed subject community detection in early-onset schizophrenia.
Scientific reports 2014 Yang Z, Xu Y, Xu T, Hoy CW, Handwerker DA, Chen G, Northoff G, Zuo XN, Bandettini PA -
Task Dependence, Tissue Specificity, and Spatial Distribution of Widespread Activations in Large Single-Subject Functional MRI Datasets at 7T.
Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) 2014 Gonzalez-Castillo J, Hoy CW, Handwerker DA, Roopchansingh V, Inati SJ, Saad ZS, Cox RW, Bandettini PA -
The spatial structure of resting state connectivity stability on the scale of minutes.
Frontiers in neuroscience 2014 Gonzalez-Castillo J, Handwerker DA, Robinson ME, Hoy CW, Buchanan LC, Saad ZS, Bandettini PA