decision neuroscience
jamie donahey roitman
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Education
Education
University of Washington, Seattle WA
​PhD in Neurobiology and Behavior, 2002
Thesis: Neural mechanisms responsible for decisions about stochatic motion stimuli
Advisor: Michael Shadlen
Pennsylvania State University, State College PA
​BS with High Honors in Psychology, 1992
Employment​
Head
​2022 - present
​Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago IL
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Associate Professor
​2017 - present
​Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago IL
Laboratory of Integrative Neuroscience, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago IL
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Assistant Professor
​2010 - 2017
​Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago IL
Laboratory of Integrative Neuroscience, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago IL
Research Assistant Professor
2006-2010
Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago IL
Post-doctoral fellow
​2002-2006
Department of Neurobiology, Duke University, Durham NC
Advisors: Michael Platt and Elizabeth Brannon
Graduate student
​1995-2002
Program in Neurobiology and Behavior, University of Washington, Seattle WA
Graduate student
1994-1995
Department of Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA
Research assistant
​1992-1994
Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA
Awards
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R01 (NIH-NIDA). 4/15 – 3/20, 4/20 – 3/25. Collaborator: J. Roitman. PI: Mitchell Roitman. Modulation of NAc-DA signaling by learning, motivational state and peptides.
Silver Circle Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2018. College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, UIC.
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R01 (NIH-NIDA). 4/15 – 3/20. Co-Investigator: J. Roitman. Modulation of NAc-DA signaling by learning, motivational state and peptides. (PI: M. Roitman)
National Center for Responsible Gaming Seed Grant. 7/1/14-6/30/15. PI: J. Roitman. Assessing risk-preference and compulsive behavior in a rodent gambling task. $34,500 total costs
R36 Drug Abuse Dissertation Research (NIH_NIDA). 7/1/14-6/30/16. PI: Leslie Horn Amodeo. Mentor: J.Roitman. Role of Orbitofrontal Cortex on Adolescent Impulsivity. $108,000 total costs
LAS Award for Faculty in the Natural Sciences. 1/3/2014 – 1/2/2015. PI: Steve Reilly. Co-I: J. Roitman. An in vivo system for the study of reward, learning and memory, and executive control in the rat. $28,000
R21 (NIH-NIDA), 5/1/2010-4/30/2013. PI. Cortico-striatal signaling in risk preference. $386,150 total costs
Brain Research Foundation Seed Grant. 5/1/2011- 4/30/2012. PI. Effect of adolescent alcohol consumption on risk-preference and neural encoding of risky rewards. $40,000 total costs
Behavioral Science Track Award for Rapid Transition R03 (NIH-NIDA), 2008-2009. PI. Neural basis of decisions about uncertain rewards. $78,496 total costs
Individual National Research Service Award (NIH-NEI), 2003-2005. Post-doctoral trainee. Numerical processing in parietal cortex
Institutional National Research Service Award (NIH-NINDS), 2002-2003. Post-doctoral trainee. Neural basis of decisions about quantity
Institutional National Research Service Award (NIH-NEI), 1997-2000. Pre-doctoral trainee. Role of parietal cortex in decisions about stochastic motion
Phi Beta Kappa, 1992
Psi Chi, 1992
Papers
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As JD Roitman and J Donahey
For links to pdfs, see Google Scholar and PubMed
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Donka RM, Hsu T, Roitman MF & Roitman JD (2023). Chronic water restriction reduces sensitivity to brain stimulation reward in male and female rats. Physiology & Behavior 263: 1 May, 114110. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2023.114110
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Corwin S & Roitman JD (2021). Effect of voluntary adolescent alcohol consumption on encoding of decision-related variables in prefrontal cortex. bioRxiv 2021.03.09.434599; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.03.09.434599
Hsu TM, Bazzino P, Hurh SJ, Konanur VR, Roitman JD & Roitman MF (2020). Thirst recruits phasic dopamine sigaling through subformical organ neurons. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Dec 1;117(48):30744-30754. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2009233117.Epub 2020 Nov 16.
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Jacobs-Brichford E, Manson KF & Roitman JD (2019). Effects of chronic cannabinoid exposure during adolescence on reward preference and mPFC activation in adulthood. Physiology & Behavior. doi:10.1016/j.physbeh.2018.12.006.
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McMurray MS, Conway S & Roitman JD (2017). Brain stimulation reward supports more consistent and accurate rodent decision-making than food reward. eNeuro. May 1;4(2). pii: ENEURO.0015-17.2017. doi: 10.1523/ENEURO.0015-17.2017. eCollection 2017 Mar-Apr.
Amodeo LR, Jacobs-Brichford E, McMurray MS & Roitman JD (2017). Acute and long-term effects of adolescent methylphenidate on decision-making and dopamine receptor mRNA expression in the orbitofrontal cortex. Behavioural Brain Research. May 1;324:100-108. doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2017.02.019. Epub 2017 Feb 14.
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Amodeo LR, McMurray MS & Roitman JD (2016). Orbitofrontal cortex reflects dynamic response-outcome contingencies during probabilistic reversal learning. Neuroscience. doi:10.1016/j.neuroscience.2016.03.034
Shadlen MN, Newsome WT, Kiani R, Gold JI, Wolpert DM, Ditterich J, de Lafuente V, Yang T, Roitman JD (2016). Comment on “Single-trial spike trains in parietal cortex reveal discrete steps during decision-making”. Science. Mar 25;351(6280):1406. doi:10.1126/science.aad3242
McMurray MS, Amodeo LR & Roitman JD (2015). Adolescent ethanol consumption increases risk preference and alters orbitofrontal cortex encoding of reward.Neuropsychopharmacology. 2015 Sep 15. doi: 10.1038/npp.2015.288.
Cone JJ, Roitman JD, Roitman MF (2015). Ghrelin regulates phasic dopamine and nucleus accumbens signaling evoked by food-predictive stimuli. Journal of Neurochemistry. 133(6):844-56. doi: 10.1111/jnc.13080.
Napier TC, *Corvol J-C, *Grace AA, *Roitman JD, *Rowe, *Shurtleff D, *Voon, & Strafella AP (2014). Linking preclinical neuroscience with modern concepts of impulse control disorders in Parkinson’s disease. Movement Disorders. 30(2):141-9. doi: 10.1002/mds.26068.
McMurray MS, Amodeo LR, & Roitman JD (2014). Effects of voluntary alcohol intake on risk preference and behavioral flexibility during adolescence. PLoS ONE 9(7):e100679. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0100697.
Roitman JD & Loriaux AL (2014). Nucleus accumbens responses differentiate execution and restraint in reward-directed behavior. Journal of Neurophysiology 111(2):350-60. doi: 10.1152/jn.00350.2013. Epub 2013 Oct 30.
Roitman JD, Brannon EM & Platt ML (2012). Representation of numerosity in posterior parietal cortex. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience. 6:25. doi: 10.3389 /fnint.2012.00025.
Klenotich SJ, Seiglie MP, McMurray MS, Roitman JD, LeGrange D, & Dulawa S (2012). Olanzapine, but not fluoxetine, treatment increases survival in activity-based anorexia in mice. Neuropsychopharmacology. doi: 10.1038/npp.2012.7.
Loriaux A, Roitman JD, Roitman MF (2011). Nucleus accumbens shell but not core tracks hedonic valence across changes in physiological state. Journal of Neurophysiology. 106(3): 1537-44.
Roitman MF, Wheeler RA, Tiesinga PH, Roitman JD, Carelli RM (2010). Hedonic and nucleus accumbens neural responses to a natural reward are regulated by aversive conditioning. Learning & Memory. 17(11): 539-46.
Roitman JD, Roitman MF (2010) Risk-preference differentiates orbitofrontal cortex responses to freely chosen reward outcomes in rats. European Journal of Neuroscience. 31: 1492-1500.
Pearson J, Roitman JD, Brannon EM, Platt ML, Raghavachari S (2010) A physiologically-inspired model of numerical classification based on graded stimulus coding. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience. online Jan 27;4:1.
Beck JM, Ma WJ, Kiani R, Hanks T, Churchland AK, Roitman JD, Shadlen MN, Latham PE, Pouget A (2008) Probabilistic population codes for Bayesian decision making. Neuron. 60(6):1142-52.
Comment: Salinas E (2008) So many choices: what computational models reveal about decision-making. Neuron 60(6): 946-949.
Ganguli S, Bisley JW, Roitman JD, Shadlen MN, Goldberg ME, Miller K (2008) One dimensional dynamics of attention and decision making in LIP. Neuron 58(1):15-25.
Roitman JD, Brannon EM, Platt ML (2007) Monotonic Coding of Numerosity in Macaque Lateral Intraparietal Area. PLoS Biol 5(8): e208.
Synopsis: Gross L (2007) Neurons for Numerosity: As Quantities Increase, So Does the Neuronal Response. PloS Biol 5(8): e226.
News: Swaminathan N (2007) Counting on Your Brain to Keep Score. www.scientificamerican.com
Roitman JD, Brannon EM, Andrews JR, Platt ML (2007) Nonverbal representation of time and number in adults. Acta Psychologica, 124(3): 296-318. Epub 2006 Jun 8.
Mazurek ME, Roitman JD, Ditterich J, Shadlen MN (2003) A role for neural integrators in perceptual decision- making. Cerebral Cortex 13(11): 1257-69.
Brannon EM, Roitman JD (2003) Nonverbal representations of time and number in animals and human infants. In: Functional and neural mechanisms of interval timing. Ed. WH Meck. CRC Press.
Roitman JD, Shadlen MN (2002) Response of neurons in the lateral intraparietal area during a combined visual discrimination reaction time task. Journal of Neuroscience 22: 9475-9489.
Dispatch: Schall JD (2002) Decision Making: Neural Correlates of Response Time. Current Biology 12(23): R800-R801.
Donahey J, van Dijk G, Woods SC, Seeley RJ (1998) Intraventricular GLP-1 reduces short- but not long-term food intake or body weight in lean and obese rats. Brain Research 779:75-83.
van Dijk G, Donahey J, Thiele TE, Scheurink AJ, Steffens AB, Wilkinson CW, Tenenbaum R, Campfield LA, Burn P, Seeley RJ, Woods SC (1997) Central leptin stimulates corticosterone secretion at the onset of the dark phase. Diabetes 46:1911-1914.
Kaplan JM, Donahey J, Baird JP, Simansky KJ, Grill HJ (1997) d-fenfluramine anorexia: dissociation of ingestion rate, meal duration, and meal size effects. Pharmacology Biochemistry & Behavior 57:223-229.
Grill HJ, Donahey J, King L, Kaplan JM (1997) Contribution of caudal brainstem to d-fenfluramine anorexia. Psychopharmacology (Berl) 130:375-381.
Van Dijk G, Thiele TE, Donahey J, Campfield LA, Smith FJ, Burn P, Bernstein IL, Woods SC, Seeley RJ (1996) Central infusions of leptin and GLP-1-(7-36) amide differentially stimulate c-FLI in the rat brain. American Journal of Physiology 271:R1096-1100.