Fujiwara Lab | University of Alberta

The lab 2010-2014

September: Michael Mazo successfully defends his MSc thesis "Delineating the Relationship between Self-Trust and Generalized Self-Efficacy: Implications for Mental Health". Big congrats and well done, Michael!
January: Lauren Alston successfully defends her MSc thesis "Attention and Memory in Repressive Coping Style". Well done, Lauren!!

November: Paper accepted for publication [Travis, S.G., Huang, Y., Fujiwara, E., Radomski, A., Olsen, F., Carter, R., Seres, P., Malykhin, N.V. (in press). High field structural MRI reveals specific episodic memory correlates in the subfields of the hippocampus. Neuropsychologia]
September : Sara (Tomlinson) Gilliam also successfully defends her MSc thesis "Decision making under risk in patients with HIV". Congratulations, Sara!
September: Ashley Radomski successfully defends her MSc thesis "Decision making under risk in multiple sclerosis". Well done!! Ashley continues her graduate education with Dr. Mandi Newton, Dept. of Pediatrics, UofA.
August: Paper accepted for publication [Alston, L.L., Kratchmer, C., Jeznach, A., Bartlett, N.B., Davidson, P.S.R., Fujiwara, E. Self-serving episodic memory biases: Findings in the repressive coping style. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience].
May: Jonn Kmech joins the lab as a research assistant. Welcome, Jonn!
February: Paper accepted for publication [Arndt, J. E., Hoglund, W. L.G, Fujiwara, E. Desirable responding mediates the relationship between emotion regulation and anxiety. Personality and Individual Differences].

August: Paper accepted for publication [Madan, C.R., Fujiwara, E., Gerson, B.C., Caplan, J.B. High reward makes items easier to remember, but harder to bind to a new temporal context. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience].
July : Lauren Alston receives a Master's scholarship from SSHRC. Congratulations!!
June : Congratulations to Ashley Radomski and Sara Gilliam for winning prizes for best oral presentation (Ashley) and best poster (Sara) at the 11th Annual Research Day of the Department of Psychiatry! We are very proud!!!
May : Chris Madan receives a Doctoral Scholarship from the Alberta Gaming Research Institute. Well done, congratulations!!
April : Summer studentship funding received from the MS Society/EndMS network. Jenny Lu-Song will study basal ganglia functions in patients with multiple sclerosis in the lab this summer.
April : Chris Madan receives a Postgraduate Scholarship from NSERC. Congratulations!!
March : Paper accepted for publication [Madan, C.R., Caplan, J.B., Lau, C.S.M., Fujiwara, E. Emotional arousal does not enhance association memory. Journal of Memory and Language]

October : Funding received from the Alberta Gaming Research Institute, Co-PIs: Jeremy Caplan, Chris Madan, Sara Tomlinson. Title: "Individual differences in reward-based memory enhancement".
September : Paper accepted for publication [Arndt, J.E., Fujiwara, E. Attentional bias towards angry faces in trait-reappraisal. Personality and Individual Differences.]
July : Funding received from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research - CIHR with PI: Nikolai Malykhin (Co-PI: Richard Camicioli). Title: " Imaging biomarkers of cognitive aging".
June : Sarah Riedlinger was accepted to three medical schools and will start at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Alberta in Fall 2011. Congratulations, Sarah!!
May : Congratulations to Ashley Radomski and Sara Tomlinson for winning the prizes for the two best posters at the 10th Annual Research Day of the Department of Psychiatry! Well done and deserved!
March : Chris Madan receives a DAAD Graduate Scholarship 2011-2012, which will send him to Hamburg (Germany) for a collaboration with Dr. Tobias Sommer, UKE Hamburg. Chris will work on an fMRI project investigating emotional association memory. Congratulations, Chris!
January : Ashley Radomski receives Frederick Banting - Master's Award from CIHR. Congratulations!

May 2010: Paper accepted for publication [Borsutzky, S., Fujiwara, E., Brand, M., Markowitsch, H.J. Susceptibility to false memories in patients with ACoA aneurysm. Neuropsychologia.]
May 2010: Bridgette Gerson was accepted to the Schulich School of Medicine, University of Western Ontario. Congratulations, Bridgette!!
April 2010: Funding received from Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council SSHRC. Title: "Emotional memory and forgetting in repressive coping"
January 17, 2010: Birth of Joel Fujiwara