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Mark Barad
James Boehnlein
Mark E. Bouton
J. Douglas Bremner
Larry Cahill
Albert Carnesale
Dennis Charney
Christopher Coe
Michael Davis
Michael Fanselow
Edna Foa
Byron Good
Gilbert Herdt
Alexander Hinton
Mardi Horowitz
David Kinzie
Laurence Kirmayer
Melvin Konner
Robert Jay Lifton
Robert Lemelson
Charles Marmar
Emeran Mayer
Michael Meaney
Mark S. Micale
Claudia Mitchell-Kernan
Rosemarie O'Keefe
Robert Pynoos
Gregory Quirk
Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Arieh Shalev
Richard Sheirer
Stephen Suomi
Allan Tobin
Bessel van der Kolk
Rachel Yehuda
Allan Young

Larry Cahill, PhD

Larry Cahill, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor of Neurobiology and Behavior and a fellow of the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory at UC Irvine. Dr. Cahill's research focuses on neural mechanisms of memory formation for emotionally arousing events, addressing these issues with both human and infra-human subject work. His research suggests that interactions between peripheral stress hormones and the amygdala in humans are critical for enhanced conscious ("declarative") memory associated with emotional arousal.

Collectively, Dr. Cahill's research challenges several prevailing views of the role of the amygdala in memory, and provides strong confirmation of the view, derived from prior animal research, that endogenous catecholamines and the amygdala influence memory storage for emotionally significant events.

Dr. Cahill's current research directions include examining conditions under which post-learning stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system enhances memory consolidation in humans, and identifying pathways in the human brain through which amygdala activity influences memory formation. His most recent research highlights influences of both cerebral hemisphere and subject sex on neural mechanisms of emotionally influenced memory. Finally, he is pursuing the clinical implications of this work for the prevention and treatment of disorders of memory for emotional events, such as Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.


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