As part of her quest to understand healthy aging, UChicago neurologist Emily Rogalski has been studying the brains of superagers—people over age 80 with memory as good as that of an average 50- to 60-year-old.
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At this year’s South Side Science Festival, UChicago neuroscience trainees dedicated to Motor Neuron Disease research engaged the community in hands-on learning activities about ALS.
It’s a popular example of the “Mandela effect,” or a collective false memory. And while some people may laugh and move on, others spend years searching for an explanation.
Horror and science fiction often show normal life sliding into the uncanny — even our memories and perceptions. Austin Lim, PhD’14, explains the real neuroscience behind these chilling tales.
The Nature Human Behavior study led by Yuan Chang (YC) Leong combines fMRI data, natural language processing, and graph theory to show that emotion strengthens memory by changing how the whole brain works together.
Littlewood has received his award for leading international research institutions, including Argonne National Laboratory and the Cavendish Laboratory, and especially as founding executive chair of the Faraday Institution, the UK’s independent institute for electrochemical energy storage research.
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