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Kaisa N. Bornhoft

University of Minnesota

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Renovating the Barnes maze for mouse models of Dementia with STARR FIELD: A 4-day protocol for learning rate, retention and cognitive flexibility.

Aimee X. Bertolli, Oday Halhouli, Matthew A. Weber, Yiming Liu-Martínez, Linder H. Wendt, Brianna Blaine, Ramasamy Thangavel, Sura Smadi, Preston J. Pellatz, Danlin Liu, Kaisa N. Bornhoft, Kalpana Gupta, Riley Dean, Margaret M. Tish, Gemma Kerr, , Georgina M. Aldridge

Methods · Apr 9, 2026Peer-reviewedNeuroscience

Valence ambiguity dynamically shapes striatal dopamine heterogeneity

Kaisa N. Bornhoft, Julianna Prohofsky, Timothy J. O’Neal, Amy R. Wolff, Benjamin T. Saunders

The paper investigates how valence ambiguity affects striatal dopamine responses during learning, finding heterogeneous dopamine signaling across striatal subregions and differential updating rates following valence reversal.

bioRxiv · May 17, 2024 · PreprintNeuroscience

Contexts facilitate dynamic value encoding in the mesolimbic dopamine system

Kurt M. Fraser, Val L. Collins, Amy R. Wolff, David J. Ottenheimer, Kaisa N. Bornhoft, Fiona Pat, Bridget J. Chen, Patricia H. Janak, Benjamin T. Saunders

This study investigates how dopamine neurons in the mesolimbic system enable rapid revaluation of reward cues in changing environments using behavioral and neurophysiological methods in rats.

bioRxiv · Nov 5, 2023 · PreprintNeuroscience

Hierarchical cue control of drug seeking in the face of cost

Val L. Collins, Kaisa N. Bornhoft, Amy R. Wolff, Sonal Sinha, Benjamin T. Saunders

This study investigates how patterns of drug intake and environmental cues influence relapse in rats, finding that binge-like cocaine intake predicts relapse despite escalating costs and that cues can hierarchically modulate drug-seeking behavior.

bioRxiv · May 5, 2022 · PreprintNeuroscience