Jeff Stott

Ph.D. 2015

Thesis Title:

Information Processing in the Orbitofrontal Cortex and the Ventral Striatum in Rats Performing an Economic Decision-Making Task

Current Position:

Postdoctoral fellow, Dartmouth

Undergraduate Institution and Major/Degree:

St. John's College, B.A. in Liberal Arts

Major Advisor(s):

A. David Redish, Ph.D.

Lab Rotations:

  • Matthew Chafee
  • David Redish
  • Tay Netoff

Courses Taken Beyond the Core Courses:

  • NSc 5202   Theoretical Neuroscience: Systems and Information Processing
  • NSc 8217   Systems and Computational Neuroscience
  • Nsc 5462   Neuroscience Principles of Drug Abuse

Conferences Attended and Presentations:

  • Society for Neuroscience annual meeting - Fall 2007, 2009
  • Computational and Systems Neuroscience (Cosyne) Spring 2008
  • Neuroeconomics:  Decision Making and the Brain (NYU) 2008

Selected Publications and Presentations:

  • Stott JJ, Redish AD. Representations of value in the brain: An embarrassment of riches? PLoS Biol. 2015 Jun 18;13(6):e1002174.
  • Stott JJ, Redish AD. A functional difference in information processing between orbitofrontal cortex and ventral striatum during decision-making behaviour. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2014;369(1655).
  • Papale AE, Stott JJ, Powell NJ, Regier PS, Redish AD. Interactions between deliberation and delay-discounting in rats. Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci. 2012;12(3):513-26.
  • Fritsch B, Stott JJ, Joelle Donofrio J, Rogawski MA.Treatment of early and late kainic acid-induced status epilepticus with the noncompetitive AMPA receptor antagonist GYKI 52466. Epilepsia 2010;51(1):108-17.

Professional Memberships:

  • Society for Neuroscience

Home Town:

  • San Jose, California
Jeff Stott