Oh, hey, it's the fountain at the mall that's never on. Allie Ward, and you're here for your brain. So am I. Let's get into it. So this ologist was recommended years ago and has been on my list forever, but I wanted to scoot on down an hour south of L.A. to his office on the UC Irvine campus, where he does a lot of very cool and important work studying brains. How does one become that?

Well, an undergrad in neuroscience and a master's in psychological and brain sciences from John

Hopkins University, where he was later an assistant professor. He got his PhD from UC Irvine,

and then he returned there to become the director of the center

for the neurobiology of learning and memory. Dude knows memory. Everyone in his office was so

nice, and I got there, we posted up at his desk. And at one point, I looked over to see some

artwork of a seahorse, and I was like, okay. And then I realized, oh, okay, we're going to

touch on that in a bit. But first, thank you to all the patrons who submitted questions for

this episode, which we're going to cover wall to wall in part two next week. And because this is

just a huge topic. There's so many good questions. Thank you to everyone getting ologiesmerch from

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reviews, which boosts the show so much. And each week I remember to read them all. And I pick

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and now onward. Okay, neeminology is not a word that this guest really likes because someone else

wrote a book using it. He has nothing to do with the book. And that person's Google Alerts,

RIP, it's going to get screwed up because

of this. But nemonology is the study of memory. And it comes from the Greek for something used to

help in remembering a thing, which is what I suppose your brain's function is, among other things.

So let's get into how it does that as well as discuss movie myths,

aging and memory loss, childbirth amnesia, where your memory is stored. What happens when

you cram for a test or a presentation? Hormones in memory, the movie Lucy. How to know if you're

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