Congratulations, Dr. Rachel Nauer Wehr!
On Thursday, July 25th, 2019, Rachel Nauer Wehr successfully defended her dissertation on “Modulators of the human hippocampal memory system“. Our newly minted Ph.D., Dr. Rachel Nauer Wehr (center), with her two PhD advisors Dr. Karin Schon (left) and Dr. Chantal Stern (right). Current and former Schon lab members (from left to right): Matt […]
Congratulations, Katie!
Katie Kern, a 4th-year Anatomy and Neurobiology Ph.D. student in the lab, won third prize in Anatomy and Neurobiology at the 25th Annual Henry I. Russek Student Achievement Day! Congratulations, Katie! Both Katie and Michael presented research posters at the 25th Annual Henry I. Russek Day, and some of our newest lab members stopped […]
Congratulations, Michael Rosario!!
Congratulations to Michael Rosario, a second-year Ph.D. student in the lab, for winning a Health Policy Research Scholarship from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation!! Michael is the first person at BU to receive this prestigious four-year award! To read the press release, click here.
Photos Summer 2017
Photos by: Chino (August 2017)
Congratulations, Rachel!
For receiving her predoctoral NRSA award from NIA entitled: “Modulatory Effects of Fitness on Hippocampal Dependent Memory Across the Lifespan”!
BUMC Features STaRS Program!
Brain Plasticity and Neuroimaging Lab member and STaRS program participant Michael Rosario (UVI’2017) on left. To read story, click here.
Congratulations, Natalia, Jose, and Ben!!
Congratulations for successfully defending their senior honors theses! Natalia Lopez: Differential Effects of Endurance and Resistance Training on Behavioral Pattern Separation Jose Miguel Corrales Romo: Cardiorespiratory Fitness Effects on Subsequent Memory Test Performance after a Delayed Match-to-Sample Task in Young Adults Benjamin W. Coleman: Investigations on the Utility of Subjective Cognitive Complaints in Clinical Neuropsychology
BU-Today Writes About Our Lab’s Research!
This was part of a five-piece special report on “Unraveling Alzheimer’s Disease”. Read part 3 “Can exercise help delay or prevent the disease?” here.
Our Research in the News!
Whiteman et al. (NeuroImage, in press) is featured in NeuroscienceNews.com: “Aerobic Exercise and Physical Activity Important for Healthy Brain Function” and in: “Couch potato lifestyle could damage intelligence in later life”
Whiteman et al. 2015 in press at NeuroImage!
Our recent paper entitled: “Entorhinal volume, aerobic fitness, and recognition memory in healthy young adults: A voxel-based morphometry study” has been accepted for publication at NeuroImage! Highlights (adapted from NeuroImage): We assessed entorhinal and hippocampal volume using voxel-based morphometry, aerobic fitness, recognition memory, and peripheral BDNF Sub-structurally, we observed a strong association […]