Catherine E. Myers, PhD

Research Scientist

Stress and Motivated Behavior Institute

Veterans Affairs Medical Center - New Jersey Health Care System

East Orange, NJ

RESEARCH INTERESTS: - Computational Neuroscience: Building neural network models of brain systems involved in learning and memory, especially the hippocampus and associated areas. - Human Experimental Neuropsychology: Understanding the brain substrates of learning and memory in humans, by study both of normal individuals, and of patients with memory impairments due to injury or disease, including Alzheimer's disease, amnesia, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and other disorders.    - Prediction and diagnosis: Developing simple behavioral tests to diagnose whether specific brain regions have been damaged or disrupted, which may be used to predict risk of disorders (such as Alzheimer's disease) before other symptoms develop.

EDUCATION:

• B.S. Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware, 1987

  Ph.D. Neural Systems Engineering, Imperial College, University of London, 1990 (with Igor Aleksander)

  Postdoc, Computational Neuroscience, Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers University-Newark, 1991-1993 (with Mark Gluck)

 

SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

• Myers, C. E. & Scharfman, H. E. (2009). A role for hilar cells in pattern separation in the dentate gyrus: A computational approach. Hippocampus, 19(4), 321-337.
• Meeter, M., Shohamy, D., & Myers, C. E. (2009). Acquired equivalence changes stimulus representations. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 91(1), 127-141.
• Myers, C. E., Kluger, A., Golomb, J., Gluck, M. & Ferris, S. (2008). Learning and generalization tasks predict short-term outcome in non-demented elderly. Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology, 21, 93-103.
• Myers, C. E., Hopkins, R., DeLuca, J., Moore, N., Wolansky, L. J., Sumner, J. & Gluck, M. (2008). Learning and generalization deficits in patients with memory impairments due to anterior communicating artery aneurysm rupture or hypoxic brain injury. Neuropsychology, 22(5), 681-686.

 

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CONTACT INFORMATION

Mail:	Email:
Catherine E. Myers, PhD	Catherine.Myers2@va.gov
VA Medical Center (129)	Telephone:
385 Tremont Avenue	973-676-1000 x(1)1810
East Orange, NJ 07018

 

Other websites of interest:

• Free public newsletter, Memory Loss and the Brain
• My occasional blog on memory research, What's Up With Memory