Julie Stout's Laboratory

Clinical & Cognitive Neuroscience Research

Welcome! This is the home page for Julie Stout's Laboratory in the Department of Psychology at Indiana University in Bloomington. We are interested in understanding how the brain, especially the striatal-frontal brain systems, implement complex adaptive behaviors, such as decision making, social functioning, and emotions processing. We also have a particular interest in understanding and describing how behavior is affected by damage to the basal ganglia. Our research methods include experimental cognitive and clinical neuropsychological testing, physiological measures such as skin conductance and functional brain imaging, and cognitive modeling. Our projects include investigations of decision making in drug abuse, basal ganglia and cognition in presymptomatic Huntington's disease, social cognition and emotions processing in Parkinson's disease and Huntington's disease; and social and emotional processing in Asperger's Disorder and high-functioning autism.

Our lab is located on the second floor of the Psychology Building in Room A212. You may also contact us by phone at (812) 855-2963. If you are interested in participating in one of our current studies, please contact us at (812) 856-0200 or toll-free at (866) 786-8848.