“You can’t expect to hold on to all information you’ve gathered throughout your life, whether it was long ago or recent. It’s not realistic or adaptive.” – Dr. Lydia Cho
Speaker: Dr. Bharat Shah In February 2019, McLean Hospital, in collaboration with the N.S. Vahia Foundation, offered a weeklong lecture series hosted at the Nehru Science Center in Mumbai focused on educating the public and professionals about brain and mental health. Learn more: mclean.org/mumbai
Edward G. Meloni, PhD, is a Kaneb Fellow in Psychiatry and an investigator in the Behavioral Genetics Laboratory at McLean Hospital. Before joining the staff at McLean, his post-doctoral experience included research in the Psychiatry Department at Emory University and Neurology Department at Harvard...
Elif Engin, PhD, grew up in Ankara, Turkey, and earned her undergraduate and master’s degrees at Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara. She completed her doctoral work in the laboratory of Dr. Dallas Treit in Edmonton, Alberta, and was awarded a PhD Thesis Award from the Canadian...
Daniel G. Dillon, PhD, was trained in human neuroscience at Duke University, where he studied learning and memory under the guidance of Dr. Kevin LaBar. As a post-doctoral fellow working with Dr. Diego Pizzagalli at Harvard University, Dr. Dillon investigated brain systems implicated in anhedonia, a...
Jennifer T. Sneider, PhD, focuses her research on the role of the hippocampus, with a particular interest in characterizing sex differences and the role of the menstrual cycle on hippocampal-based memory function. She has received funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to apply magnetic...
Yan Li, PhD, received his PhD from the Shanghai Brain Research Institute in China. During his doctoral studies he characterized anatomical substrates of synaptic integration in hypoglossal motoneurons in rats. With the help of the NIH Fogarty International Fellowship, he continued his research in...
Andrea M. Cataldo, PhD’s research integrates neurobehavioral experiments and computational modeling to uncover the psychological mechanisms underlying memory and decision-making. As part of the Motivated Learning and Memory Laboratory within the Center for Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Research...