Join Dr. Yassa as he discusses the aging brain and changes in memory systems, Alzheimer’s dementia, how to differentiate dementia in the early stages from healthy aging, what we know about prevention strategies that may reduce risk for dementia, latest data on supplementation and physical and cognitive exercise. When: Tuesday May 10, 2016, 6:00PM Where: Oasis Senior…
Congratulations to our 4th year graduate student Zach Reagh for a 1st place-winning poster at UCI MIND’s ReMIND Emerging Scientists Symposium in February. ReMIND (Research and Education in Memory Impairments and Neurological Disorders) is a student led club affiliated with UCI MIND that was created to support the next generation of young scientists studying neurological…
When: March 1, 2016, 5:30-7:30PM What: UCI MIND’s Panel of Researchers Meet to Answer Your Questions! Where: Alzheimer’s Orange County | 2515 McCabe Way, Irvine, CA 92614 Following a brief introduction to dementia research by Dr. Joshua Grill, Director of Education for the UC Irvine Institute for Memory Impairments and Neurological Disorders (UCI MIND), panelists will…
Our TiNS review “Neurocognitive aging and the hippocampus across species” is now online. Here are some of the trends we discuss in the article: The role of neurogenesis in the dentate gyrus in the context of neurocognitive aging has been recently revisited, given data suggesting that neurogenesis continues into older adulthood. The lateral entorhinal and…
Our latest paper entitled ‘Dissociated signals in human dentate gyrus and CA3 predict different facets of recognition memory‘ was published today in The Journal of Neuroscience! On top of that, our study is featured in the cover art! See the cover art caption/blurb here. Enormous thanks to Joe Watabe and Maria Ly, authors on the…
New paper by Zach Reagh in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Congrats all around – this one was in the works for a good while! Reagh, Z.M. & Yassa, M.A. (2014). Object and spatial mnemonic interference differentially engage lateral and medial entorhinal cortex in humans. PNAS doi: 10.1073/pnas.1411250111 Significance Statement: Episodic memories…
The time is almost here. The 25th annual Southern California Alzheimer’s Disease Research Conference is on 9/12/2014. All information about it is here. You can still register for the program! Of particular note is Howard Federoff who is joining us from Georgetown to discuss the use of new blood lipid biomarkers for early/preclinical diagnosis and…
Our recent paper demonstrating that stimulus repetition alters memory performance was featured on the August issue of Learning & Memory! Here’s the cover art and caption: Many theories of memory assume that repetition globally enhances memory representations. However, Reagh and Yassa (LearnMem 21: 342–346) demonstrate that although repetition may enhance general recognition, it can have…
Our recent paper in Learning & Memory, which tests a key prediction of our Competitive Trace Theory, was covered in a UC Irvine press release today! Here’s the write-up: UC Irvine neurobiologists Zachariah Reagh and Michael Yassa have found that while repetition enhances the factual content of memories, it can reduce the amount of detail…
