Dear all,
We are happy to announce the next CRAM (Cognitive Research at McGill) session of this term on Friday, October 25th. Dr. Veronique Bohbot will be speaking to us about Modulating growth and shrinkage of the human hippocampus. Abstract to come soon.
The talk will span from 12pm-1pm in room 1552 of 2001 McGill College Avenue. Coffee and light snacks will be provided. Please BYOM (bring your own mug). All are welcome!
Best, CRAM team
Dear all,
First a reminder for the CRAM session tomorrow. Also colleagues at UQAM asked me to make circulate another invitation for a talk (in french) at 3pm, which also on the hippocampus and just a few blocks east of the department. Dr. Amilhon was at the Douglas, and just got hired at UdeM in 2017.
Best,
Mathieu
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Mathieu Roy Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, McGill University Canada Research Chair in Brain Imaging of Pain Chercheur, Institut Universitaire de Gériatrie de Montréal Office: 2001 McGill 760 Office phone: 514-398-4234 Cell phone: 514-916-3922
Le mar. 22 oct. 2019 à 13:08, Cognitive Research at McGill <cram@psych.mcgill.camailto:cram@psych.mcgill.ca> a écrit : Dear all,
We are happy to announce the next CRAM (Cognitive Research at McGill) session of this term on Friday, October 25th. Dr. Veronique Bohbot will be speaking to us about Modulating growth and shrinkage of the human hippocampus. Abstract to come soon.
The talk will span from 12pm-1pm in room 1552 of 2001 McGill College Avenue. Coffee and light snacks will be provided. Please BYOM (bring your own mug). All are welcome!
Best, CRAM team
Hi Everyone,
Friendly reminder that Dr. Veronique Bohbot will be speaking at today's CRAM session--room 1552, 2001 McGill College 12-1PM. See below for title and abstract.
Hope to see you there! CRAM Team
Title: Modulating growth and shrinkage of the human hippocampus
Abstract: A larger hippocampus has been associated with healthy cognition in normal aging and with a reduced risk of numerous neurological and psychiatric disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease, Schizophrenia, Post-Traumatic Stress disorder and Depression. The hippocampus is implicated in spatial memory strategies used when finding one’s way in the environment, i.e. it is allocentric and involves remembering the relationship between landmarks. On the other hand, another strategy dependent on the caudate nucleus can also be used, i.e. the response strategy, which relies on making a series of stimulus- response associations (e.g. right and left turns from given positions). Measures of spontaneous navigation strategies from ages 8 to 80 yrs have shown a decrease in spatial memory strategies across the life span, along with a reduction in activity and grey matter in the hippocampus in favor of caudate nucleus dependent response strategies. Caudate nucleus dependent strategies are modulated by reward seeking behaviors such as smoking and playing action video games, stress, cultural differences, gender and age. Since grey matter in the caudate nucleus is negatively correlated to grey matter in the hippocampus, our theoretical model predicted that stimulation of the caudate nucleus would lead to shrinkage of the human hippocampus. As such, characteristics of these two memory systems were used to modulate growth and shrinkage of the human hippocampus, thereby demonstrating that real world experiences may have an impact on the incidence of neurological and psychiatric disorders.
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Dear all,
We are happy to announce the next CRAM (Cognitive Research at McGill) session of this term on Friday, October 25th. Dr. Veronique Bohbot will be speaking to us about Modulating growth and shrinkage of the human hippocampus. Abstract to come soon.
The talk will span from 12pm-1pm in room 1552 of 2001 McGill College Avenue. Coffee and light snacks will be provided. Please BYOM (bring your own mug). All are welcome!
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