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Making and Preserving Memories
Dr. McGaugh, founding director of the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, is internationally recognized for his studies of drug and hormone influences on memory. This lecture examines the recent findings linking high levels of emotion and hormones with strong and lasting memories, and considers the implications for understanding memory disorders.
Learning, Drug Anticipation and Drug Addiction
Dr. Siegel has conducted pioneering investigations on how the environment in which drugs are taken can dramatically alter the effects of the drugs. This lecture discusses the role of learning in drug addiction and how learned anticipation of receiving drugs contributes to drug tolerance, craving and withdrawal symptoms.
The Fragile Power of Human Memory
Dr. Schacter is one of the world's leading researchers in brain and memory, especially the study of amnesia. His lecture explores the fragile power of memory by considering unconscious effects of past experiences, amnesia, evidence for different memory systems in the brain, traumatic memories and false memories.