BOISE, Idaho, Aug. 24 -- Boise State University issued the following news release:
Learning is all about asking questions, and children ask the best questions. Boise State is home to more than 1,400 faculty members and researchers who are eager to answer these amazing questions.
Today, Assistant Professor of Psychological Sciences Sydney Boutros answers a child's question: How does the brain make and keep memories?
At Boise State, Boutros is a behavioral neuroscientist. Her primary field of research is learning and memory - specifically, exploring how we learn and remember to investigate diseases where people lose their memory, such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease.
She currently has two ongoing projects: 1) assessing if the chemi...