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2017 CNLM Award Recipients
The CNLM presents several highly competitive end-of-the-academic-year awards. Awardees are chosen through a selection process by a special committee appointed by the Director. Awardees may receive each award only once.…
Read MorePhysical Exercise and Brain Health
On March 2nd, 2017, the CNLM partnered with the UCI Exercise Medicine and Sport Sciences Initiative (EMSSI) to host an international scientific symposium and forum on Physical Exercise and Brain…
Read MoreCNLM Fellow Dr. Georg F. Striedter publishes field’s leading textbook
Students in Professor Georg Striedter’s Advanced Neurobiology course were pleasantly surprised at the beginning of the term when they learned the textbook they would be using was written by their…
Read MoreMcGaugh-Gerard Lectureship
A tribute to world-class scholarship and a friendship dating back to UCI’s inception The CNLM and the Ayala School of Biological Sciences proudly announce the establishment of the McGaugh Gerard Endowed…
Read MoreBasic Science Saves Lives – an idea worth remembering
The idea is not novel, but it is too often forgotten. Particularly in today’s political climate, the value of basic scientific pursuit and discovery is frequently challenged if not undermined. This is…
Read MoreCNLM Hosts the 30th Annual Conference on the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory
This month the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory hosted the 30th Annual Conference on the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory at the University of California, Irvine. The conference was…
Read MoreArticle in The Guardian explains Dr. James McGaugh’s work on Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory (HSAM)
Original article written by Linda Rodriguez McRobbie in The Guardian. Click here to read. Almost 17 years ago, in June of 2000, Dr. James McGaugh met the woman that would inspire a new…
Read MoreCNLM Faculty Fellow and Distinguished Professor Elizabeth Loftus awarded Maddox Prize for Standing up for Science
Professor Loftus studies human memory, and in particular, the malleability of human memory. Her research has revealed how memories can be changed by subsequent experiences. The “misinformation effect” is a phenomenon in…
Read MoreMeet NYU Professor of Neural Science and Bestselling Author Dr. Wendy Suzuki
Watch Dr. Suzuki’s lecture!
Read MoreDistinguished Professor and CNLM Fellow Bruce L. McNaughton awarded National Science Foundation Grant
The grant, entitled Hippocampal-Cortical Communication and the Extraction of Knowledge from Memory was on of 18 funded projects from the cross-disciplinary NSF Integrative Strategies for Understanding Neural and Cognitive Systems program. This program…
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