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Nanthia Suthana said she plans to use virtual reality technology to develop therapies to help patients who have memory problems, like those with Alzheimer&#039;s disease and epilepsy. (Daily Bruin file photo)

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UCLA neuroscience assistant professor uses VR to study memory formation

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A UCLA researcher is using virtual reality to learn more about how the human brain forms memories. Nanthia Suthana, a neuroscientist and assistant professor of neurosurgery and psychiatry, received a $3.3 million, three-year grant from the National Institutes of Health’s Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies Initiative to expand her research on how memories form when people move and navigate in a virtual environment, the university announced Monday.

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UCLA neuroscience assistant professor uses VR to study memory formation

By Laurel Scott

Nov. 28, 2017 7:49 p.m.