PUBLICATIONS

Replay of procedural experience is independent of the hippocampus

Thompson EJ, Rollik L, Waked B, Mills G, Kaur J, Geva B, Carrasco-Davis R, George T, Domine C, Dorrell W, Stephenson-Jones M

bioRxiv, June 2024

Most Ventral Pallidal Cholinergic Neurons Are Bursting Basal Forebrain Cholinergic Neurons with Mesocorticolimbic Connectivity

Schlingloff D, Szabó Í, Gulyás É, Király B, Kispál R, Stephenson-Jones M, Hangya B

Journal Neuroscience, March 2026

Dopaminergic action prediction errors serve as a value-free teaching signal

Greenstreet F*, Vergara HM*, Johansson Y, Pati S, Schwarz L, Lenzi SC, Geerts JP, Wisdom M, Gubanova A, Rollik LB, Kaur J, Moskovitz T, Cohen J, Thompson E, Margrie TW, Clopath C, Stephenson-Jones M

Nature, July 2025

Opposing Contributions of GABAergic and Glutamatergic Ventral Pallidal Neurons to Motivational Behaviors

Stephenson-Jones M, Bravo-Rivera C, Ahrens S, Furlan A, Xiao X, Fernandes-Henriques C, Li B

Neuron, March 2020

Pallidal circuits for aversive motivation and learning

Stephenson-Jones M

Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, April 2019

The Lateral Habenula Circuitry: Reward Processing and Cognitive Control

Baker PM, Jhou T, Li B, Matsumoto M, Mizumori SJ, Stephenson-Jones M, Vicentic A.

Journal of Neuroscience, November 2016

A basal ganglia circuit for evaluating action outcomes

Stephenson-Jones M, Yu K, Ahrens S, Tucciarone JM, van Huijstee AN, Mejia LA, Penzo MA, Tai LH, Wilbrecht L, Li B

Nature, November 2016

The lamprey blueprint of the mammalian nervous system

Robertson B, Kardamakis A, Capantini L, Pérez-Fernández J, Suryanarayana SM, Wallén P, Stephenson-Jones M, Grillner S

Progress in Brain Research, April 2014

Evolutionarily conserved organization of the dopaminergic system in lamprey: SNc/VTA afferent and efferent connectivity and D2 receptor expression

Pérez-Fernández J, Stephenson-Jones M, Suryanarayana SM, Robertson B, Grillner S

Journal of Comparative Neurology, December 2014

Independent circuits in the basal ganglia for the evaluation and selection of actions.

Stephenson-Jones M, Kardamakis AA, Robertson B, Grillner S

PNAS, September 2013

Dopamine differentially modulates the excitability of striatal neurons of the direct and indirect pathways in lamprey

Ericsson J, Stephenson-Jones M, Pérez-Fernández J, Robertson B, Silberberg G, Grillner S

Journal of Neuroscience, May 2013

The evolutionary origin of the vertebrate basal ganglia and its role in action selection

Grillner S, Robertson B, Stephenson-Jones M

The Journal of Physiology, November 2013

Evolutionarily conserved differences in pallial and thalamic short-term synaptic plasticity in striatum

Ericsson J, Stephenson-Jones M, Kardamakis A, Robertson B, Silberberg G, Grillner S

Journal of Physiology, Feburary 2013

The dopamine D2 receptor gene in lamprey, its expression in the striatum and cellular effects of D2 receptor activation

Robertson B, Huerta-Ocampo I, Ericsson J, Stephenson-Jones M, Pérez-Fernández J, Bolam JP, Diaz-Heijtz R, Grillner S

PLoS One, April 2012

Evolution of the basal ganglia: dual-output pathways conserved throughout vertebrate phylogeny

Stephenson-Jones M, Ericsson J, Robertson B, Grillner S

Journal of Comparative Neurology, September 2012

Evolutionary conservation of the habenular nuclei and their circuitry controlling the dopamine and 5-hydroxytryptophan (5-HT) system

Stephenson-Jones M, Floros O, Robertson B, Grillner S

PNAS, December 2012

Evolutionary conservation of the basal ganglia as a common vertebrate mechanism for action selection

Stephenson-Jones M, Samuelsson E, Ericsson J, Robertson B, Grillner S

Current Biology, July 2011