Congratulations to graduate student Fernanda Morales-Calva who has been awarded a Conference Fellowship to attend the 4th Latinos & Alzheimer’s Symposium in San Diego, CA! Fernanda will be presenting her work on Investigating Differences in Memory Specificity in Latinos and… Continue Reading
The Leal Lab has partnered with the Aspenwood Company which owns 13 retirement homes in the Houston area (https://www.theaspenwoodcompany.com/) to hold a lecture series for the residents on topics related to the aging brain. Dr. Stephanie Leal and her team,… Continue Reading
Third year graduate students Kayla Clark and Fernanda Morales-Calva earned their Master’s Degrees today in Psychological Sciences at Rice University! They will continue on to earn their PhD. Kayla successfully defended her Master’s thesis on “Post-Encoding Music Effects on Mnemonic… Continue Reading
Congratulations to second year graduate student Madelyn Castro for winning first place at the 29th Annual UT Health Neuroscience Poster Session! Madelyn presented findings from her first-author paper “Perceived antidepressant efficacy associated with reduced negative and enhanced neutral mnemonic discrimination”… Continue Reading
The Walk to End Alzheimer’s disease, hosted by the Alzheimer’s Association, was held at the University of Houston on Saturday, November 4th. Graduate student Lorena Ferguson has organized the team for the past several years. We had a great time… Continue Reading
Congratulations to Brandon Hayes, first author on the paper “Emotion regulation during encoding reduces negative and enhances neutral mnemonic discrimination in individuals with depressive symptoms”. Brandon was an undergraduate research assistant when working on this study, and he is now… Continue Reading
Congratulations to Renae Mannion, NSF REU fellow and first author on the paper “A novel face-name mnemonic discrimination task with naturalistic stimuli”. Difficulty remembering faces and names is a common struggle for many people and gets more difficult as we… Continue Reading
Congratulations to now Dr. Eva Dicker, a 4th year graduate student in the lab co-mentored by Dr. Stephanie Leal and Dr. Bryan Denny, as she successfully defended her dissertation titled “Let Me Count the Ways: Untangling Adaptive Emotion Polyregulation Across… Continue Reading
Congratulations to Taylor Phillips and Madelyn Castro, co-first authors on the paper “Perceived antidepressant efficacy associated with reduced negative and enhanced neutral mnemonic discrimination”. We found that individuals who reported a greater improvement in their depressive symptoms after taking antidepressants… Continue Reading
Kayla Clark, a rising third year graduate student in the lab, successfully defended her Master’s Thesis examining post-encoding music effects on mnemonic discrimination. Well done Kayla!