Dr. Stout's research is focused on understanding neural mechanisms of cognition, personality, and behavior changes that occur in neuropsychiatric disorders. Some specific goals are to describe the roles of frontal-subcortical brain circuitry in problem solving, memory, personality, and emotional behavior in dementias such as Huntington's, Parkinson's, and Alzheimer's diseases.
Frontal behavior syndromes in cortical and subcortical dementia.
Stout, J.C., Ellis, R.J., Jernigan, T.L., Archibald, S.L., Abramson, I., Wolfson, T., McCutchan, J.A., Wallace, M.R., Atkinson, J.H., Grant, I. and the HNRC Group. Relationsip of neuropsychological and MRI measures to age of onset in schizophrenia. Cognitive and motor changes among presymptomatic Huntington's Disease gene carriers. Regional cerebral volume loss associated with verbal memory in dementia of the Alzheimer type. Assessing frontal behavior syndromes with the Frontal Lobe Personality Scale.