Our ability to learn and remember is central to our experience of the world and sense of who we are. UWM Distinguished Professor of Psychology Fred Helmstetter describes how we use molecules, cells and circuits in the brain to store… Read More
Dr. Lisdahl’s participation in The Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study was a recent feature on WUWM. Listen to the story at: UWM Today – Dr. Lisdahl.
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