Month December 2014

Dr. Darrin Brager receives NIH R01

Dr. Darrin Brager, in collaboration with Dr. Boris Zemelman, was awarded a new 5-year NIH R01 grant to study ion channels and dendrites in a mouse model of Fragile X syndrome.

Dr. Lewis-Peacock publishes in Nature Communications

Dr. Lewis-Peacock co-published a manuscript with Dr. Kenneth Norman (Princeton University) in Nature Communications entitled “Competition between items in working memory leads to forgetting”.  Rapidly switching the focus of attention is believed to impair memory but it is unclear how.…