Suzanne Corkin, Ph.D.
Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience
Principal Investigator, Behavioral Neuroscience Laboratory
Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Researcher, author and journal contributor,
Dr. Suzanne Corkin, hails to us from Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Fields of interest include: Biological bases of human
memory systems; Aging, Sensory Functions; Natural history
and pathophysiology of degenerative disorders; and Structural
and functional magnetic resonance imaging.
Dr. Corkin and her colleagues investigate the cognitive
and neural processes that support working memory (online
storage and retrieval of information) and long-term memory
(offline storage and retrieval of information). The participants
in their lab research are healthy young adults (MIT students),
healthy older adults, and patients with neurological
diseases (amnesia, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases).
The research methods include behavioral testing to document
memory performance, structural magnetic resonance imaging
(MRI) to document brain anatomy, and functional MRI to
document brain physiology.
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