John Hotson

Administrative Appointments

• Chief of Neurology, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center (1985 - 2009)

Honors and Awards

• Neurology Clerkship Teaching Award, Department of Neurology, Stanford University School of Medicine (2004-2007, 2009)
• Lysia Fornia Award for Teaching Excellence, Department of Neurology, Stanford University School of Medicine (1991)

Professional Education

Research Interests

The response and recovery of human visual, eye movement and related cognitive systems after acquired neurological disorders is a main area of interest. Experimental designs combine human brain neurophysiology techniques with psychophysics methods. We currently use transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) as probes to test the postulate that visual perceptual learning alters early visual cortex.

Publications

• Visual perceptual learning is similar across the extrafoveal central visual fields K. Neary, S. Anand, J.R. Hotson. Restorative Neurology & Neuroscience. 2009; 27 (3): 181-188
• Perceptual learning of line orientation modifies the effects of transcranial magnetic stimulation of visual cortex. Neary K, Anand S, Hotson J. Experimental Brain Research. 2005: 162 23-34
• Tracing the timing of human analysis of motion and chromatic signals from occipital to temporo-parieto-occipital cortex: a transcranial magnetic stimulation study. Anand S, Olson JD, Hotson JR. Vision Res. 1998; 38 (17): 2619-27
• Acute vestibular syndrome. Hotson JR, Baloh RW. N Engl J Med. 1998; 339 (10): 680-5
• Transcranial magnetic stimulation of extrastriate cortex degrades human motion direction discrimination. Hotson J, Braun D, Herzberg W, Boman D. Vision Res. 1994; 34 (16): 2115-23