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UCSD Department of Psychiatry 50th Anniversary Symposium - Day 2 - Session 5: Memory & Cognition, and Motivation Research - The Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory by Larry Squire, PhD.
Larry Squire, PhD
Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry, Neurosciences, and Psychology and Research Career Scientist at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Diego
University of California, San Diego
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Dr. Squire studied at Oberlin College (BA), MIT (PhD), and was a postdoctoral fellow at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine before coming to UCSD, where he has had the good fortune to spend his entire career. Dr. Squire investigates the organization and neurological foundations of memory. His work has involved neurological patients, nonhuman primates, and rodents. His publications include more than 500 articles and two books: Memory and Brain (1987) and Memory: From Mind to Molecules with Eric Kandel (2nd Edition, 2009). He served as President of the Society for Neuroscience (1993- 1994) and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the National Academy of Medicine. Awards include the Distinguished Lifetime Contribution to Neuropsychology Award (National Academy of Neuropsychology), the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award (American Psychological Association), the William Middleton Award (Department of Veterans Affairs), the Karl Lashley Award (American Philosophical Society), the Award for Scientific Reviewing (National Academy of Sciences), and the Goldman-Rakic Prize (Brain and Behavior Research Foundation).
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Fifty years ago, a new medical school at the University of California, San Diego recruited a 35-year old neuroscientist-psychiatrist, Arnold J. Mandell, MD, to establish the country’s newest department of psychiatry. Mandell’s vision was to create a community of scholars, educators, and clinicians who understood that to make advances in the causes, mechanisms, treatment, and prevention of mental illness one needed to begin with the neurobiological bases of these disorders and link such insights to diagnosis and treatment.
Mandell therefore put the department on a new path, a biologically rooted but translationally oriented multidisciplinary department. Our second Chair, Lewis L. Judd, MD, built on this concept and through careful recruiting of talented scientists, educators, and clinicians, developed what came to be regarded as one of the finest departments of psychiatry in the world.
The science of this department expanded from investigations of the traditional mental disorders, such as schizophrenia, mood disorders, anxiety disorders, and dementias to multidisciplinary investigations of the role of brain conditions in important medical disorders such as HIV/AIDS.
From a scientific standpoint, a relatively young department became one of the three best funded research departments in the country, while developing 25 discipline specific and multidisciplinary training programs. The clinical enterprise has also flourished and now includes world class programs in the treatment of eating disorders, early psychosis, and many others.
This 50th year celebration of the science, education, and clinical work of the department is a moment of both happy self-reflection, and consideration of paths forward.
I hope you enjoy the program, and join me in the celebration.
Igor Grant, MD
Mary Gilman Marston Distinguished Professor
3rd Chair, UC San Diego Department of Psychiatry
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