memory and its disorders
Our laboratory studies mechanisms of memory and memory disorders. We use a number of techniques and approaches that allow us to study memory from molecular mechanisms to the cells they affect, the circuits and neuroanatomy they modulate, all the way to behavioral studies in rodents and patients. For example, recently we have discovered the first mechanisms of memory allocation. Our field of study is Molecular and Cellular Cognition.
Our laboratory is also developing treatments for learning and memory disorders. For example, recently we have uncovered the mechanisms responsible for the learning deficits in NF1 and TSC and used these findings to develop treatments that we are now testing in clinical trials.