Dr. Grienberger’s Lab on the Entorhinal-Hippocampal Circuit
Brandeis’ reputation as an R1 research institution is what attracts so many of the university’s STEM students. A reason that Brandeis is able to offer such research opportunities is due to the numerous faculty-run laboratories that occur on campus, one of which just received a $1.35 million dollar grant (see our News section). Another fascinating laboratory at Brandeis is Dr. Christine Grienberger’s lab on the “Neural Mechanisms of Learning.” The Grienberger Lab is studying the hippocampus region of the brain. Specifically, the entorhinal-hippocampal circuit that connects the entorhinal cortex to the hippocampus. The hippocampus is the region of the brain that is largely involved in spatial learning and episodic memory formation. The hippocampus’s function in the brain was first discovered in 1953 because of Henry Molaison. Henry Molaison, known as
