Jillian Eichstaedt
Biography
Jillian is interested in studying neurological control of eating behavior and related disorders using behavioral assessments and multimodal neuroimaging methods. Jillian's work focuses on using self-report, inhibitory control task performance, proton functional magnetic resonance spectroscopy (1H fMRS), and functional MRI to predict which individuals may struggle with maintaining weight loss following a clinical weight loss program.
Awards & Honors
Predoctoral Travel Fellowship Award, Society of Biological Psychiatry (2025–2027)
Top Poster Award, Caswell Diabetes Institute Metabolism, Obesity, Nutrition, and Diabetes Symposium, October 2024
Finalist, Magnetic Moments Competition of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, May 2023
Education/Training
Michigan State University, MI; B.S. Human Biology, Neuroscience
Research Key Collaborators
Advisors: Jeffrey A. Stanley, Ph.D.
Advisory/Dissertation Committee: Vaibhav A. Diwadkar, Ph.D.; Paul Burghardt, Ph.D.; Eric Woodcock, Ph.D.; Amy Rothberg, M.D.
Publications
Eichstaedt JM, Khatib D, Easter P, Rosenberg DR, Diwadkar VA, Stanley JA. Selective Inhibitory Motor Control Evokes Increased Glutamate Modulation in the dACC: a Proton Functional Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Study. Imaging Neuroscience. Under Review.
Perez-Bonilla P, Santiago-Colon K, Matasovsky J, Ramirez-Virella J, Garver H, Fink G, Dorrance AM, Leinninger GM. Activation of Ventral Tegmental Area Neurotensin Recpetor-1 Neurons Promotes Weight Loss. Neuropharmacology. 2021 Sep 1. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2021.108639.