Steve Ramirez

Steve Ramirez

Live Science Contributor

Steve Ramirez has been featured on CNN, NPR, and the BBC and in leading publications such as The New York Times, National Geographic, Wired, Forbes, The Guardian, The Economist, and Nature. An award-winning neuroscientist who has given TED talks on his groundbreaking work on memory manipulation, he is associate professor of psychological and brain sciences at Boston University. His first book, "How to Change a Memory: One Neuroscientist's Quest to Alter the Past" is available now. 

Latest articles by Steve Ramirez

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'As if a shudder ran from its brain to its body': The neuroscientists that learned to control memories in rodents

By Steve Ramirez published

In this adapted excerpt from "How to Change a Memory," author and neuroscientist Steve Ramirez recounts the events that led him and his colleagues to discover memories could be artificially controlled in rodents by zapping their brains with lasers.

Neuroscience