Science by the Pint is a free science café in which we invite a Boston-area research lab out to a pub or brewery to chat science over a cold one. The events are geared toward a general audience – all are welcome and no experience is necessary!

This week’s event features:
Dr. Steve Ramirez,
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Boston University

How to artificially erase, activate, and create memories in the brain

Steve Ramirez is interested in how memory works, what one looks like in the brain, and how to artificially manipulate them. Working with rodents, his lab has been able to successfully visualize, erase, and activate both positive and negative memories, as well as create false memories in the brain. More recently, their work has focused on manipulating positive and negative memories to alleviate psychiatric disease-like symptoms in rodent models of PTSD, depression, and anxiety.