Amir Dezfouli  
About Amir
Amir earned his bachelor's degree in Software Engineering and his master's in Artificial Intelligence at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering in University of Tehran. Currently, in general he is interested in Cognitive Science and he works on the system level computational neuroscience. He is a researcher in Iranian National Center for Addiction Studies (INCAS). Here is his CV.

You can contact Amir by phone or e-mail:


Phone: (+ 98) 913 103 4736
E-mail: akdezfuli [at] gmail [dought] com, a.dezfouli [at] ut [dought] ac [dought] ir (replace dought with dot)


PULICATIONS
Journal Publication(s)

Individual Differences in Nucleus Accumbens Dopamine Receptors Predict Development of Addiction-like Behavior: A Computational Approach.
Neural Computation (in press).
Payam Piray, Mohammad Mahdi Keramati, Amir Dezfouli, Caro Lucas and Azarakhsh Mokri.

A Neurocomputational Model for Cocaine Addiction.

Neural Computation 21 (10). 2009. PDF
Amir Dezfouli, Payam Piray, Mohammad Mahdi Keramati, Hamed Ekhtiari, Caro Lucas and Azarakhsh Mokri.

Conference Publication(s)

Understanding Addictive Behavior on the Iowa Gambling Task Using Reinforcement Learning Framework.

2008, poster. 
Proceedings of the Thirty Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. PDF
Amir Dezfouli, Mohammad Mahdi Keramati, Hamed Ekhtiari, Hooman Safaei and Caro Lucas.

Abstract(s)

Computational Modeling of Cocaine Addiction Using Reinforcement Learning Framework
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2009, talk. The Third International Conference of Cognitive Science. Iran, Tehran. PDF
Amir Dezfouli, Payam Piray, Mohammad Mehdi Keramati, Hamed Ekhtiari, Caro Lucas and Azarakhsh Mokri.

A Neurocomputational Model for Decreased Harm Avoidance in Addicts.

2008, poster. Society for Neurosciences Abstracts. Neuroscience 2008. PDF
Amir Dezfouli, Payam Piray, Mohammad Mehdi Keramati, Hamed Ekhtiari, Caro Lucas and Azarakhsh Mokri.

Effects of Short Term Methadone Maintenance Treatment on Brain Activation Due to Heroin Cue Induced Craving.
2008, poster. Society for Neurosciences Abstracts. Neuroscience 2008. PDF
Hamed Ekhtiari, Habib Ganjgahi, Arian Behzadi, Amir Dezfouli, Mohammad Ali Oghabian, M. Amini Khoo, Hooman Safaei and Azarakhsh Mokri.

Review(s), Miscellany

Computational Modeling: An Effective Approach to Behavioral Analysis of Addiction.

Autumn 2007. Quarterly Journal  of Addiction. PDF
Amir Dezfouli, Mohammad Mehdi Keramati and Hamed Ekhtiari

Micro and Macro Approaches to Computational Modeling of Drug Abuse: A Review.
Spring 2008. Quarterly Journal of Addiction. PDF (in Persian)
Amir Dezfouli, Mohammad Mahdi Keramati, Payam Piray, Caro Lucas, Azarakhsh Mokri and Hamed Ekhtiari.

Thesis

M.Sc Thesis: Computational Modeling of Addiction. PDF (in Persian)