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!
Congratulations to Bryant Polanco for presenting his work investigating differences in perceptual specificity across ethnic and cultural groups at the OURI Rice Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium! Great work!
The Lab Lab embarked on our first writing retreat in Lake Livingston, TX on July 21-23, 2023. We had a blast and got lots of writing done! Looking forward to next summer’s writing retreat!
Hannah Ballard, Rice Academy of Fellows Postdoctoral Scholar in the lab, has recently received an NIH NIA NRSA F32 award to study “Estrogen Declines with Menopause: Impacts on the Medial Temporal Lobe Network and Emotional Memory in Aging Females at… Continue Reading
Congratulations are in order for our past and current students and research assistants in the Leal Lab. Eva Dicker, 5th year graduate student, will be starting a tenure-track position at Seattle University in the Fall! As an Assistant Professor of… Continue Reading
The Leal Lab recently presented at the International Conference on Learning and Memory (April 26-30). Fernanda, 2nd year graduate student in the lab, was awarded an NIH travel award. We had lots of fun!
Jacob Buergler, 2nd year undergraduate and research assistant in the Leal Lab, received first place for his poster presentation at the Rice Undergraduate Research Symposium. His presented his work, in which he found that emotion dysregulation was associated with greater… Continue Reading
Michelle Sekili, an undergraduate research assistant in the lab working with second year graduate student Fernanda Morales-Calva, presented her findings examining the resilience of memorability in mnemonic discrimination and attention at the Rice Undergraduate Neuroscience Symposium on March 28, 2023… Continue Reading
Alexis Bailey, a research assistant in the lab who graduated from Rice in 2016, will start medical school at Baylor College of Medicine in August 2023. While in school, Alexis plans to continue research related to Alzheimer’s disease and her… Continue Reading