Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Total Recall, the Borne Identity, Men in Black, etc. Hollywood seems obsessed with the idea of being able to erase people memories. Well, the […]
Dr. Michael Hanna
Associate Professor of Neuroscience
Prior to Vanguard, Dr. Hanna taught a Neurobiology Lab at UCI and was an adjunct faculty at Mt. San Antonio Community College and Los Angeles Trade Technical College. Areas of interest include substance abuse, neurological disorders, and developmental disorders.
He is involved in services aimed at providing food and clothing to the homeless of Downtown Los Angeles and is also involved in a tutoring and college-preparation program for high school youth in Orange County.
Society for Neuroscience Conference 2023
A Meeting of the Minds and Brains This year, I, along with two Vanguard students, got to travel to our nation’s capital to present the data from our experiments performed […]
Society for Neuroscience 2022
Expect the Unexpected It’s back. After one year of being canceled and another year of being online, Society for Neuroscience (SfN) is back in-person. This year, I took two of […]
26th Cognitive Neuroscience Society Conference
This year’s annual Cognitive Neuroscience Society conference was in beautiful San Francisco. This year marked the 26th annual meeting. In his keynote address, Dr. Matthew Walker, from the University of California, […]
Erasing the Past
A significant problem for those struggling with drug addiction is the high propensity of users to relapse following long periods of abstinence from drug use. It has been found that […]
Brain, Memory, and Drugs
PRESIDENT BRAIN (Society for Neuroscience Annual Conference Meeting) I, along with four other students, Rhys Carpenter, Megan Jeske, Carla Keith, and Liana Rizkalla, traveled to Washington D.C. to attend the […]
Developing the mind and brain
THINGS TO REMEMBER I along with two other students, Brittanie Clarke (Biological Sciences Major) and Paige Braden (Psychology Major), attended the 24th Annual Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) meeting. This society […]