American psychologist
Larry Ryan Squire
(born May 4, 1941) is an American psychiatrist and neuroscientist. He is a professor of
psychiatry
,
neurosciences
, and
psychology
at the
University of California, San Diego
, and a Senior Research Career Scientist at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Diego. He is a leading investigator of the neurological bases of
memory
, which he studies using animal models and human patients with
memory impairment
.
Education
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Squire received a
B.A.
from
Oberlin College
, where he studied with
Celeste McCollough
, and a
Ph.D.
from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
, where he studied under the mentorship of
Peter Schiller
and
Hans-Lukas Teuber
.
[1]
He subsequently completed a
postdoctoral fellowship
at
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
.
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Career
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Next Squire accepted a position as a faculty member at the
University of California San Diego
, where he has remained since. His publications include more than 480 research articles and two books:
Memory and Brain
(Oxford Press, 1987) and
Memory: From Mind to Molecules
with Eric Kandel (Roberts & Co., 2nd Ed, 2009). He is also senior editor of the textbook,
Fundamental Neuroscience
, now in its 4th Edition and editor-in-chief of
The History of Neuroscience in Autobiography
(now in eight volumes).
[1]
Larry Squire illuminated the anatomy and phenotype of human memory impairment, identified the anatomical components of the medial temporal lobe memory system (with Stuart Zola), pioneered the biological distinction between declarative and nondeclarative memory, explored the conscious and unconscious memory systems of the mammalian brain, and helped establish the standard account of memory consolidation.
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Honors and awards
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In 1993?1994, Squire served as president of the
Society for Neuroscience
.
[3]
He is an elected member of the
National Academy of Sciences
as of 1993,
[4]
and served on the governing Council from 2009 to 2012. He has also been elected to the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
,
[1]
American Philosophical Society
as of 1996,
[5]
and
National Academy of Medicine
(formerly The Institute of Medicine) as of 2000.
[6]
He received the Charles A. Dana Award for Pioneering Achievements in Health in 1993,
[7]
the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the
American Psychological Association
in 1993,
[8]
the William James Fellow of the
Association for Psychological Science
in 1994,
[9]
the William Middleton Award from the
United States Department of Veterans Affairs
in 1994,
[10]
the
Metlife Foundation Award for Medical Research in Alzheimer's Disease
in 1999,
[11]
the
Karl Spencer Lashley Award
from the American Philosophical Society in 1995, "for his seminal contribution to the delineation of implicit and explicit memory systems in the brain",
[12]
the McGovern Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2004,
[13]
the Herbert Crosby Warren Medal from the Society of Experimental Psychologists in 2007,
[14]
the
Award for Scientific Reviewing
from the National Academy of Sciences in 2012,
[15]
and the Goldman-Rakic Prize from the
Brain & Behavior Research Foundation
in 2012.
[16]
He received an honorary degree from the
University of Basel
.
[17]
Selected publications
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- Memory and Brain
New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1987. XII, 315 p.
ISBN
0-19-504208-5
- Memory: from Mind to Molecules, 2nd Edition
, with Eric Kandel. Greenwood Village: Roberts & Co.
ISBN
0981519415
- Fundamental Neuroscience
. 4th ed. San Diego, CA : Academic Press, 2012. (Issued in 1998, 2003 and 2008.) 1426 p. avec CD
ISBN
9780123858702
- Squire, L. R. (2009). "Memory and Brain Systems: 1969-2009."
The Journal of Neuroscience
, 29, 12711?12716.
- Wixted, J. T. & Squire, L. R. (2011). "The Medial Temporal Lobe and the Attributes of Memory."
Trends in Cognitive Sciences
, 15, 210?217.
- Squire, L. R. & Wixted, J. (2011). "The Cognitive Neuroscience of Human Memory since H.M.",
Annual Review of Neuroscience
, 34, 259?288.
- Insausti, R., Annese, J. Amaral, D. G., Squire, L. R. (2013). "Human Amnesia and the Medial Temporal Lobe Illuminated by Neuropsychological and Neurohistological Findings for Patient E.P.",
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
, US, 110, E1953-E1962.
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