Larry Ryan Squire (born May 4, 1941) is a

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, neurosciences, and

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at the

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, 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 Memory is the faculty of the mind by which data or information is encoded, stored, and retrieved when needed. It is the retention of information over time for the purpose of influencing future action. If past events could not be remembered ...

, which he studies using animal models and human patients with

memory impairment Amnesia is a deficit in memory caused by brain damage or disease,Gazzaniga, M., Ivry, R., & Mangun, G. (2009) Cognitive Neuroscience: The biology of the mind. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. but it can also be caused temporarily by the use ...

Education

Squire received a

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from Oberlin College, where he studied with Celeste McCollough and a

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from the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...

, where he studied under the mentorship of Peter Schiller and

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. He subsequently completed a

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ship at

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Career

Next Squire accepted a position as a faculty member at the

University of California San Diego The University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego or colloquially, UCSD) is a public land-grant research university in San Diego, California. Established in 1960 near the pre-existing Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego is th ...

, 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). 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.

Honors and awards

In 1993–1994, Squire served as president of the

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. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences as of 1993, and served on the governing Council from 2009 to 2012. He has also been elected to the

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as of 1996, and

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(formerly The Institute of Medicine) as of 2000. He received the Charles A. Dana Award for Pioneering Achievements in Health in 1993, the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the

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in 1993, the William James Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science in 1994, the William Middleton Award from the

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in 1994, the Metlife Foundation Award for Medical Research in Alzheimer's Disease in 1999, 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", the McGovern Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2004, the Herbert Crosby Warren Medal from the Society of Experimental Psychologists in 2007, the Award for Scientific Reviewing from the National Academy of Sciences in 2012, and the Goldman-Rakic Prize from the

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in 2012. He received an honorary degree from the

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Noted publications (from a total list of 500+)

* ''Memory and Brain'' New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1987. XII, 315 p. * ''Memory: from Mind to Molecules, 2nd Edition'', with Eric Kandel. Greenwood Village: Roberts & Co. * ''Fundamental Neuroscience''. 4th ed. San Diego, CA : Academic Press, 2012. (Issued in 1998, 2003 and 2008.) 1426 p. avec CD * 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.

References

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