Kathryn Rothenhoefer, PhD

E-mail

kmr0602@pitt.edu

Education & Training

B.A., American University (2015)

Campus Address

BST3, 4th floor

Mentor

William Stauffer

Graduation Year

2017

He, J., Kleyman, M., Chen, J., Alikaya, A., Rothenhoefer, K.M., Ozturk, B.E., Wirthlin, M., Bostan, A.C.,
Fish, K., Byrne, L.C.T., Pfenning, A.R., & Stauffer, W.R. (2021). Transcriptional and Anatomical Diversity
of Medium Spiny Neurons in the Primate Striatum. Current Biology 31: 5473-5486.

Rothenhoefer, K.M. & Stauffer, W.R. (2020). Dopamine Signals Learn New Tricks. Neuron 106(1): 11-
13.


Rothenhoefer, K.M., Hong, T., Alikaya, A., & Stauffer, W.R. (2020). Rare Rewards Amplify Dopamine
Responses. Nature Neuroscience 24: 465-469.
 

Rothenhoefer, K.M. & Stauffer, W.R. (2017). Dopamine Prediction Error Responses Update Demand.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 114(52): 13597-
13599.