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.”
We are excited to announce that Hannah Ballard (Texas A&M) will be joining the lab as a postdoc starting in the Fall of 2022! She will have received her PhD from Texas A&M in Neuroscience and will be exploring “Estrogen… Continue Reading
We are so excited that Madelyn Castro (current lab manager) will be joining the lab as a graduate student in the Fall of 2022! Madelyn completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities in 2018 and… Continue Reading
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!
Rishi Vas (Senior) and Lorena Ferguson (Graduate Student) presented their projects at the 27th Annual Neuroscience Poster Session on Saturday, December 4th. Huge congrats to Lorena who received first place for her poster presentation! See below for pictures of our two awesome… Continue Reading