Who We Are

Michaela Dewar

I obtained a BSc in Psychology from the University of Aberdeen (2003), and a PhD in Neuropsychology from the University of Edinburgh (2007). I am currently a post-doctoral research fellow within the Human Cognitive Neuroscience unit of the University of Edinburgh and have been supported by personal research fellowships from Alzheimers Research UK and the Royal Society of Edinburgh and Lloyds Foundation for Scotland. My research explores (i) the role of memory interference in severe forgetting, and (ii) the beneficial effects of wakeful resting on recently acquired memories in healthy people and in some patients with memory impairment. Within the TIME project I am investigating whether accelerated long term forgetting in TEA could be associated with a disruption of recently acquired memory traces by new learning and behavioural activity. This Epilepsy Research UK-funded work is being carried out primarily by our PhD student Serge Hoefeijzers.