Dr. Neal Morton received an NRSA award for his research project entitled “A neurocognitive framework for understanding how experience shapes object representations,” and Dr. Christine Coughlin received an NRSA award for her project entitled “Memory development and its influence on reasoning and prospection.”

Dr. Brumback has been awarded the Philip R. Dodge Young Investigator Award from the Child Neurology Society.  Each year this prestigious award recognizes a child neurologist/scientist that poses “a set of fundamental values and practices, qualities of character, and habits of mind expressed through solidly grounded and applied research that … benefit all child neurologists […]

Dr. Joseph Dunsmoor recently published a research paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science entitled “Stress promotes generalization of older but not recent threat memories”.  This research investigates how stress and the amount of time that has passed since an adverse event affects the generalization of memories. Specifically, these findings show that acute stress […]

Dr. Brian Bernier and colleagues in the Drew lab published a research paper in the Journal of Neuroscience entitled “Dentate gyrus contributes to retrieval as well as encoding: Evidence from context fear conditioning, recall, and extinction”. Despite abundant evidence that the hippocampal dentate gyrus (DG) plays a critical role in memory, it has remained unclear […]

Drs. Dan Johnston and Boris Zemelman received a McKnight Memory and Cognitive Disorders Award for their research proposal entitled “Prefrontal Dysfunction in Fragile X Syndrome”. Fragile X Syndrome is the most common inherited form of intellectual disability and is caused by a mutation in the fmr1 gene.  Previously it has been shown that mice lacking […]

Dr. Tom Middendorf and Rick Aldrich recently published companion papers in the Journal of General Physiology entitled “Structural identifiability of equilibrium ligand-binding parameters”, and “The structure of binding curves and practical identifiability of equilibrium ligand-binding parameters.” The former paper presents  a method to determine the accuracy of ligand-protein binding parameters estimated from models of agonist binding.  The […]

Dr. Tracy Wang, a postdoctoral fellow in the Lewis-Peacock lab, was awarded an F32 fellowship from NINDS for her research project entitled ” Investigating the contributions of neural competition to intention forgetting and real-time neurofeedback”. The research will investigate the neural mechanisms underlying forgetting by testing whether interference arising from the co-activation of memories mediates the […]

Matasha Dhar, post doc in the Nishiyama lab, recently published an article in Nature Communications entitled “Spatiotemporal dynamics of lesion-induced axonal sprouting and its relation to functional architecture of the cerebellum.”  This work investigates the functional relevance of newly sprouted axon collaterals following brain lesion. Dhar M, Brenner JM, Sakimura K, Kano M and Nishiyama […]

Laura Colgin published a review article in Nature Reviews Neuroscience entitled “Rhythms of the Hippocampal Network”.  In this review she discusses our current understanding of the origins and the mnemonic functions of hippocampal theta, sharp wave–ripples and gamma rhythms on the basis of findings from rodent studies, and she presents an updated synthesis of their roles […]

Drs. Laura Colgin, Michael Drew and Jarrod Lewis-Peacock will be discussing “The Neuroscience of Change” on Views & Brews tonight, July 12th, 6pm at the Cactus Cafe!  Please join them for this free community event! http://kut.org/topic/views-and-brews