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Article 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 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…
Read MoreFounding CNLM Fellow Professor Norman M. Weinberger passes away
https://cnlm.uci.edu/fellows/norman-weinberger/
Read MoreNew James L. McGaugh Chair Named
The James L. McGaugh Endowed Chair was established in 2009 to honor the contributions of Dr. James L. McGaugh, the founding director of the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning…
Read MoreCNLM Fellow Tim Bredy discovers “junk DNA” gene that alters brain function
Timothy W. Bredy, CNLM Fellow and Assistant Professor of Neurobiology & Behavior, and colleagues at the University of Queensland and the Garvan Institute of Medical Research in Sydney discovered that…
Read MoreCNLM researcher reverses effect of chemotherapy by human stem cell transplantation
CNLM Fellow Charlie Limoli has shown in a recent paper published in the journal Cancer Research that human stem cell transplantation in the hippocampus of rodents can reverse the effects of chemotherapy…
Read MoreNobel Laureate, Dr. John O’Keefe will give Dean’s Distinguished Lecture on March 30 at 4:00 PM
2014 Nobel Laureate Dr. John O’Keefe (University College London) will give the Dean’s Distinguished Lecture on March 30 at 4:00 PM (reception to follow) at the Arnold and Mabel Beckman…
Read MoreDates for Spring Meeting Announced
The dates for the 2015 Annual Conference on the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory have been announced! The Conference will take place at UC Irvine in the Herklotz Conference Facility…
Read MoreVernon Mountcastle, ‘father of neuroscience’ and longtime member of Johns Hopkins faculty, dies at 96
Longtime JHU faculty member, ‘father of neuroscience’ made breakthrough discovery that revolutionized our understanding of how the brain is built. He discovered and characterized the columnar organization of the cerebral…
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