David J. Ottenheimer

This study investigates how CeA neurons encode motivation for ethanol and natural rewards, finding that neural responses to cues predict engagement and action vigor.

This study identifies diverse neuronal subtypes in the rodent ventral pallidum using single-nucleus RNA-seq and shows their non-canonical interregional continuity.

This study investigates how the central amygdala encodes and controls reward consumption in rats, showing that optogenetic stimulation enhances intake of preferred rewards but not less-preferred ones.

The paper shows that sustained BLA neuronal activity during reward seeking depends on OFC input and is reduced when OFC is inactivated or optogenetically disrupted.

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.

This study identifies stable, distributed coding of cue value in mouse prefrontal cortex during reward learning.

This study shows that dorsomedial striatum activity reflects the progress of behavioral sequences in rats, with changes in neural patterns correlating with sequence completion.

This study identifies RPE signals in the ventral pallidum that predict task engagement and influence reward-seeking behavior in rats.

This study examines how neural encoding of cue value in the ventral pallidum differs between Pavlovian and instrumental training in rats, and how alcohol exposure affects these representations.