Jeffrey J Stott

|Visiting Scholar
Academic Appointments

  • Resident Scholar, Psychological and Brain Sciences

  • Assistant Professor of Surgery, Geisel School of Medicine

I study how the brain makes decisions, and what goes wrong in Parkinson's disease. I got my PhD in neuroscience at the University of Minnesota with David Redish. At Dartmouth I studied habits with Kyle Smith and spatial navigation with Matthijs van der Meer. Now I work with Richard Sun, a neurosurgeon at Dartmouth Hitchcock, recording from the subthalamic nucleus in mice. That is the main target for deep brain stimulation in Parkinson's patients.

Contact

Jeffrey.J.Stott@dartmouth.edu
612-212-2998
Moore Hall, Room 115
HB 6207

Education

  • PhD, Neuroscience, University of Minnesota
  • BA, St. John's College

Selected Publications

  • Amaya KA, Carmichael JE, Stott JJ, Townsend ES, Bien EA, Palmer JA, Smith KS. Habit learning shapes activity dynamics in the central nucleus of the amygdala. J Neurosci. 2026.

    Stott JJ*, Amaya KA*, Smith KS (*equal contribution). Sign-tracking behavior is sensitive to outcome devaluation in a context-dependent manner: implications for analyzing habitual behavior. Learn Mem. 2020 Apr;27(4):136-149.

    Chang SE, Smedley EB, Stansfield KJ, Stott JJ, Smith KS. Optogenetic inhibition of ventral pallidum neurons impairs context-driven salt seeking. J Neurosci. 2017 Jun 7;37(23):5670-5680.

    Stott JJ, Redish AD. Representations of value in the brain: an embarrassment of riches? PLoS Biol. 2015 Jun;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 Nov 5;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 Sep;12(3):513-26.

    Fritsch B, Stott JJ, Donofrio JJ, Rogawski MA. Treatment of early and late kainic acid-induced status epilepticus with the noncompetitive AMPA receptor antagonist GYKI 52466. Epilepsia. 2010 Jan;51(1):108-17.