User:Deantylermorris/Steve Ramirez

At 2010, 24-year-old neurologist Steve Ramirez began working on his doctorate at the MIT lab of Susumu Tonegawa, winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in neuroscience. He investigated the molecular basis of learning and memory in rats and the experimental alteration of memories by using genetic and neurological treatments.

Ramirez's work earned him a fellowship at the Center for Brain Science at Harvard University, a prestigious academic incubator. Their discoveries have ushered in a new age of memory study that may one day provide effective therapies for conditions as varied as depression, PTSD, and Alzheimer's disease.

Ramirez and his group of post-docs, PhD candidates, and undergraduate and graduate research assistants investigate how the brain stores and retrieves information from memory and whether these correlations are positive or negative.