Loren M. Frank, Ph.D.

Neuroscience Graduate Program, Department of Physiology and Keck Center for Integrative Neuroscience
University of California, San Francisco

Laboratory telephone number: (415) 476-9539

The ability to use experience to guide behavior (to learn) is one of the central functions of the brain. We are interested in understanding the neural correlates of learning and memory. In particular, our laboratory focuses on the circuitry of the hippocampus and adjacent regions. Our goal is to examine the relationships among neural firing patterns, behavior, and anatomy to understand how the brain uses and stores information. Ultimately we should be able to generate accurate computational models of learning to both test hypotheses concerning hippocampal-cortical interactions and to generate new predictions that can be tested experimentally.