Ben and Victoria Present their Summer Research at the 17th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium

Congratulations to Ben and Victoria! Victoria presented her work entitled: “Differences in Memory Encoding Between Younger and Older Adults – a Pilot Study” and Ben presented his work entitled: “Exercise as an Intervention to Improve Memory and Pattern Separation – a Pilot Study” at the 17th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium of the Undergraduate Research Opportunities […]

Hormones and Memory in Couch Potatoes and Fit People

This post was originally published on January 2nd, 2014, as part of Dr. Schon’s “Exercise and the Brain” blog on wordpress.com. In a recent study, we have found that people with lower amounts of a hormone known as Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF) in their blood performed better on a recognition memory task. Interestingly, this was […]