Elizabeth Goldfarb

Elizabeth Goldfarb

@evgoldfarb.bsky.social

assoc prof of psychiatry & psychology @ Yale | cognitive neuroscientist studying memories under stress and substance use https://medicine.yale.edu/lab/goldfarb/

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Elizabeth Goldfarb
@evgoldfarb.bsky.social

How does stress change the hippocampus to prioritize predictions? Excited to be part of this terrific theme issue, sharing work led by @zhoui.bsky.social, continuing our collab w Nick Turk-Browne and @brynnsherman.bsky.social

Peter Kok@peterkok.bsky.social

The papers in this theme issue use multiple methods to examine how hippocampal predictions link memory and perception across cognitive domains. Some focus on learning, others on generating and using predictions. We introduce the theme issue and individual papers here:

royalsocietypublishing.orgThe role of hippocampal predictions in cognition: bridging perception and memoryAbstract. Memory allows us to use existing knowledge to understand what we are currently perceiving and what we may experience in the future. Despite these
Elizabeth Goldfarb
@evgoldfarb.bsky.social

How do brain networks tracking past trauma react to stress in the future? Thrilled to share new work from the lab led by rockstar postdoc @felhardi.bsky.social with wonderful collab @dylanggee.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #psychscisky #neuroskyence

pnas.orgPNASProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
Elizabeth Goldfarb
@evgoldfarb.bsky.social

In light of recent emotionally salient events - wondering how these are remembered? I’m thrilled to share new work from the lab, led by lab manager Julia Pratt, capturing emotional memories *inside and outside the lab* and quantifying their accuracy & structure pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39870487/

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.govPositive affect amplifies integration within episodic memories in the laboratory and the real world - PubMedEmotional events hold a privileged place in our memories, differing in accuracy and structure from memories for neutral experiences. Although much work has focused on the pronounced differences in mem...

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Deepu Murty
@vpmurty.bsky.social

I want to draw attention to a special issue that Lila Davachi and I put together to memorialize our friend and colleague Sarah DuBrow. It’s full of papers inspired by her work and her being from a group of collaborators, friends, and fans! Thanks @bradpostle.bsky.social for helping make this happen.

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Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience (JoCN)@jocn.bsky.social

dlvr.itIntroduction to the Special Focus: Remembering Sarah DuBrowThis Special Focus of the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience is dedicated to the research legacy of Dr. Sarah DuBrow. Sarah Dubrow passed away in February 2022 at the young age of 35 years, only 4 years after opening her own laboratory at the University of…
Elizabeth Goldfarb
@evgoldfarb.bsky.social

Check out new work from awesome CAMS lab members! #SANS2024: Jean Ye, “Brain representational distinctiveness and fidelity supported long-term associative and affective memory for emotional stimuli” | blitz topics 2 | poster p2c26 [1 of 2] #neuroskyence #psychscisky

Elizabeth Goldfarb
@evgoldfarb.bsky.social

#PsychSciSky #NeuroSkyence

Elizabeth Goldfarb@evgoldfarb.bsky.social

When are our memories integrated or fragmented? In our new review, Krystian Loetscher and I consider how stress and alcohol influence memory binding. Check it out as well as the rest of the exciting Stress and Alcohol special issue of Neurobio Stress! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38375503/

Elizabeth Goldfarb
@evgoldfarb.bsky.social

Check out CAMS posters at SfN! Yuye Huang: Sat 11/11 | 1-5pm | TT16 Dynamic brain mechanisms supporting salient memories under cortisol Dawn Nguyen: Sun 11/12 | 8-12pm | II12 Biases in hippocampal and striatal learning in trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder

Elizabeth Goldfarb
@evgoldfarb.bsky.social

So excited to have this out - congrats co-auths @brynnsherman.bsky.social, Bailey Harris, Nick Turk-Browne, and Rajita Sinha!

Brynn Sherman@brynnsherman.bsky.social

Stress tends to enhance memory for emotional events. Yet stress is also thought to hurt the hippocampus (which supports episodic memory). With @evgoldfarb.bsky.social & others, we explore this paradox and demonstrate how cortisol can *enhance* hippocampal function to support emotional episodic mems!

jneurosci.orgHippocampal mechanisms support cortisol-induced memory enhancementsStress can powerfully influence episodic memory, often enhancing memory encoding for emotionally salient information. These stress-induced memory enhancements stand at odds with demonstrations that st...

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