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Chandler Bannis (Freshman) presented at the Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium and won Mastery in Poster Presentations!

August 15, 2022mc151 Leave a Comment

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!

Renae Mannion (Senior) presented at the 2022 NEURON conference!

April 29, 2022mc151 Leave a Comment

Undergraduate research assistant Renae Mannion presented at the 2022 NEURON conference on April 24th. Very well done!

Congratulations to Eva Dicker for successfully defending her masters thesis!

April 19, 2022mc151 Leave a Comment

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 →

Rishi Vas (senior) presented at the Rice Undergraduate Research Symposium on April 15th!

April 19, 2022mc151 Leave a Comment

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!

Lorena presented her work at the Cognitive and Aging Conference on April 7th-10th!

April 19, 2022mc151 Leave a Comment

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 was awarded the BrightFocus Foundation Alzheimer’s Disease Research Program Grant!

April 19, 2022mc151 Leave a Comment

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.”

Congratulations to Sreeja for Presenting and Winning Awards at the Science and Engineering Fair of Houston and The Galveston County Science and Engineering Fair!

March 7, 2022mc151 Leave a Comment

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 →

Congratulations to Lydia Wu-Chung on her Publication!

March 7, 2022mc151 Leave a Comment

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 →

Congratulations to our Graduate Student Lorena Ferguson on her First First-Author Publication!

March 7, 2022mc151 Leave a Comment

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.

Congratulations to our Graduate Student, Lorena, for Receiving a Pre-Dissertation Grant from the Social Sciences Research Institute!

December 20, 2021mc151 Leave a Comment

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!

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