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DANDRITE Lecture - "Emotional Arousal and Lasting Memories" by Dr. James McGaugh

05.08.2016 | PA & kommunikations medarbejder Karen Bech

Dato ons 14 sep
Tid 15:15 16:00
Sted The AIAS auditorium, building 1632, 2nd floor, Høegh-Guldbergs gade, 8000 Aarhus C

Lecture on "Emotional Arousal and Lasting Memories" by Dr. James McGaugh, Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Research Professor of Neurobiology and Behavior, 307 Qureshey Research Laboratory, University of California Irvine


Where: The AIAS auditorium, building 1632, 2nd floor, Høegh-Guldbergs gade, 8000 Aarhus C
When:
The lecture takes place Wednesday the 14. Sept. 2016 from 15.15-16.00

Abstract
James L. McGaugh’s research focuses on the neurobiological systems that regulate the formation of lasting memories.

He is Research Professor of Neurobiology and Behavior at the University of California, Irvine, and he was the founding Chair of the department and founding Director of the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley and did postdoctoral study with Nobel Laureate Daniel Bovet in Rome. He has received the William James Award from Association for Psychological Science, the Karl Lashley award from the American Philosophical Society, the John P. McGovern Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Distinguished Science Award from the American Psychological Association, the Laurea Honoris Causa from the University of L’Aquila in Italy, and the Grawemeyer Award.

See announcement here

Open lecture - all interested are welcome


Speaker host:
Group Leader Sadegh Nabavi, DANDRITE - the Danish Research Institute of Translational Neuroscience, Dept. Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University

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Tags: Memory, neuroscience, McGaugh, DANDRITE, brain