Gustavo A. Angarita, MD, MHS; Joao P. De Aquino, MD; Matthew Girgenti, PhD; Elizabeth Goldfarb, PhD; and Rajiv Radhakrishnan, MD, have been elected to Associate Membership of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology.
We often wish our memories were stronger, but that is not always a good thing. Now out in Journal of Neuroscience, we show that giving cortisol at encoding can boost neural salience processing for experiences alcohol, which does help memory, but can also drive later drinking. Congratulations to co-authors Bailey Harris and Rajita Sinha! https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39147591/
Elizabeth V. Goldfarb, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry, has been recognized by the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation (BBRF) as a 2024 Klerman Prize Honorable Mention award recipient.
In this paper at Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, we find support for the idea that stress can help statistical learning - even when it does not enhance episodic memories. A big team effort with co-authors Brynn Sherman and Nick Turk-Browne, and recent undergraduates Isabella Huang and Elaine Wijaya! https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38713878/
The CAMS Lab is excited to host Trinity Yon (Claflin University) and Alyssa Behuniak (Marist College) as part of the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program! We are also thrilled to welcome back Megan Broderick (Dennison University), a participant in SURF 2023!