Denise Cai

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Denise Cai

Biology

#14084

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#17739

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Neuroscience

#2573

World Rank

#2643

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Denise Cai's Degrees

• PhD Neuroscience Stanford University

Why Is Denise Cai Influential?

According to Wikipedia, Denise Cai is an Assistant Professor of Neuroscience at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Education and early career Cai attended the University of California, San Diego, where she received her Bachelor of Science in psychology in 2004. There, she performed an honors thesis under the mentorship of Ebbe Ebbesen entitled "Computational model of rape and assault cases." She continued her education at UCSD, pursuing her doctoral degree in Psychology and Behavioral Neuroscience, working with advisors Sara Mednick, Stephan Anagnostaras, and Michael Gorman. Her graduate work focused on how sleep affects memory formation in humans and in mice. In humans, she found that rapid eye movement sleep facilitates creative thinking, compared to quiet rest and non-REM sleep. Specifically, she found that REM sleep enhances the integration of unassociated memories and is associated with processes of abstraction and generalization that facilitate problem solving and discovery.

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What Schools Are Affiliated With Denise Cai?

Denise Cai is affiliated with the following schools:

• University of California, Berkeley
• Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
• University of California, Los Angeles
• Stanford University