Dr. Karyn Frick has received a 2017 UWM Foundation Senior Faculty Research Award! The primary focus of her research is to understand how sex-steroid hormones, aging, and environmental factors affect hippocampal function and hippocampal-dependent memory. Please visit Dr. Frick’s website to… Read More
Dr. Karyn Frick received a five-year $1.8M R01 grant from the National Institute of Mental Health for her research entitled, “Mechanisms underlying memory regulation by 17beta-estradiol, Wnt/beta-catenin signaling, and BDNF in male and female mice.” The long-term goal of Dr…. Read More
Teaming up with excellent investigators, Dr. Sadie Larsen (PI), Dr. Chris Larson (Co-I), and Dr. Caron Dean-Bernhoft (Co-I), Dr. Lee (PI) obtained a CTSI Pilot and Collaborative Clinical and Translational Research Grant, in order to examine the clinical utility of a working… Read More
Dr. Fred Helmstetter received a new five-year $1.8M R01 grant from the NIMH. His research project is entitled, “Systems and molecular mechanisms of retrival-dependent memory destabilization. The project looks at how memories that have been formed in the brain can… Read More
Dr. Hanjoo Lee received a UWM Foundation Research Award at the 2016 annual Fall Awards ceremony on October 5. At the award ceremony, his experimental psychopathology research work on cognitive processes underlying anxiety problems was recognized. Dr. Lee has been working on… Read More
Dr. Frick was recently awarded one of nine inaugural “Sex and Gender in Alzheimer’s” research grants by the Alzheimer’s Association. Dr. Frick’s project is designed to examine how sex and estrogen treatment interact with the genetic risk factor apolipoprotein E… Read More
Researchers have known for two decades that the sex steroid hormone 17beta-estradiol alters the morphology of neurons in the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex, parts of the brain necessary for memory formation that deteriorate in aging and Alzheimer’s disease. In particular,… Read More
Lisdahl, K.M., Wright, N.E., Kirchner-Medina, C., Maple, K.E., Shollenbarger, S. (2014). Considering cannabis: The effects of regular cannabis use on neurocognition in adolescents and young adults. Current Addiction Reports, 1(2), 144-156. Thirty-six percent of high school seniors have used cannabis… Read More
Pharmacological interventions that prevent or delay memory loss associated with aging would substantially improve quality of life for affected individuals, increase their productivity, and decrease the health care costs for those with memory loss and dementia. Memory deficits are common… Read More
Dr. Frick’s lab published a new study in Learning and Memory: Frick, Karyn M., Kim, Jaekyoon, Tuscher, Jennifer J., and Fortress, Ashley M. (2015) Sex steroid hormones matter for learning and memory: estrogenic regulation of hippocampal function in male and… Read More