1995 LECTURE SERIES

Making and Preserving Memories

Dr. James L. McGaugh
Director, Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory
University of California, Irvine
May 10, 1995

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.

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Learning, Drug Anticipation and Drug Addiction

Dr. Shepard Siegel
McMaster University
March 28, 1995

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.

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The Fragile Power of Human Memory

Dr. Daniel Schacter
Harvard University
January 24, 1995

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.

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