Rishi Vas (Senior) and Lorena Ferguson (Graduate Student) will be presenting their projects at the 27th Annual Neuroscience Poster Session on Saturday, December 4th. The poster session will be held at UTHealth Cooley University Life Center. Come see their posters! Lorena’s poster is… Continue Reading
With the help of the Association of Retired Rice University Faculty (ARRUF), Dr. Leal hosted the Cognitive and Brain Health during Aging conference on Thursday September 30th, 2021. This conference included researchers from the Houston area who spoke about their… Continue Reading
The lab will be presenting at the Society for Neuroscience virtually, November 8-11, 2021. We have a couple of awesome undergraduate and graduate students presenting this year! Eva Dicker – Exploring the interaction between emotion regulation and inflammation on changes… Continue Reading
We are excited to welcome two incoming doctoral students for Fall 2021 – Kayla Clark, and Fernanda Morales Calva to the lab! Kayla is currently a lab manager in the Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Lab at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and… Continue Reading
Brandon Hayes (senior), Taylor Phillips (senior), and Rishi Vas (Junior) will be presenting their projects at the Rice Undergraduate Research Symposium on Wednesday, April 21st! The conference will be held virtually: https://ouri.rice.edu/rurs. Come see their talks!
Dr. Leal will be giving a talk on “The Aging Brain: Examining Memory Changes in Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease” on April 15th, 2021. All are welcome to attend the conference! You can view the full schedule here and register: https://arruf.rice.edu/
The lab received a Rice University Social Sciences Seed Money Grant to study “The impact of education, lifetime cognitive activity, and retirement on memory in aging and in those at risk for Alzheimer’s disease” starting January 2021!
SFN 2019 Lorena Ferguson, lab manager of the Neuroscience of Memory & Aging Lab, presented her poster on regional amyloid accumulation in cognitively normal older adults at SFN in Chicago. Lots of great discussion! Thanks to everyone who stopped… Continue Reading
The Leal Neuroscience of Memory & Aging Lab at Rice University is looking to recruit a postdoc with a strong background in fMRI analysis. There is a large dataset ready to be analyzed which includes fMRI, sMRI, DTI, resting state,… Continue Reading
The lab will be attending the Society for Neuroscience conference in Chicago October 19-23, 2019. We will be presenting work on the regional distribution of longitudinal amyloid accumulation in cognitively normal older adults (work done at UC Berkeley with Dr.… Continue Reading