Congratulations to our undergraduate research assistant, Chandler, for presenting at the Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium on August 5th and receiving an award for Mastery in Poster Presentations! Well done!
Undergraduate research assistant Renae Mannion presented at the 2022 NEURON conference on April 24th. Very well done!
Congratulations to Eva for successfully defending her masters thesis on April 13th! Eva is part of the Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience RIG and the Health Psychology & Behavioral Medicine Research RIG. We are so proud of you! Read below for… Continue Reading
Undergraduate research assistant Rishi Vas presented his work on “The effect of current perceived stress on emotional mnemonic discrimination” at the Rice Undergraduate Research Symposium on April 15th. Great work, Rishi!
Graduate student Lorena Ferguson presented her work on “The effect of retirement on emotional mnemonic discrimination” at the Cognitive and Aging Conference in Atlanta, Georgia on April 7th-10th. She said one of the highlights of the weekend was hearing Dr.… Continue Reading
The lab received a BrightFocus Foundation Alzheimer’s Disease Research Program Grant to investigate “Precise neurobiological profiling of the locus coeruleus and medial temporal lobe for the early detection of Alzheimer’s disease.”
Sreeja Tipirneni, a 9th grade high school student at Friendswood ISD, has been mentored by Dr. Leal this past year working on a project examining how emotion recognition impacts emotional memory across the lifespan. Sreeja recently presented her findings at The… Continue Reading
New paper out in collaboration with the BMED and TSCAN labs on “Spousal caregiving, widowhood, and cognition: A systematic review and a biopsychosocial framework for understanding the relationship between interpersonal losses and dementia risk in older adulthood.” Congratulations to Lydia… Continue Reading
New paper out from the lab on ” Interactions of Emotion and Memory in the Aging Brain: Neural and Psychological Correlates.” Congratulations to Lorena on her first first-author publication! Please see our publications tab for the link to her manuscript.
We are so happy for our graduate student, Lorena, for receiving a pre-dissertation grant. Her study is titled, “The Effect of Neuropsychiatric Symptoms on the Emotional Modulation of Memory in Aging”. She is a rockstar!