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Lectures on Tap – One Neuroscientist’s Quest to Alter the Past
Professors, experts, and storytellers giving thought-provoking lectures in Boston bars.
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🧠Lecture: “How to Change a Memory: One Neuroscientist’s Quest to Alter the Past”
🎤 Speaker: Neuroscientist, Dr. Steve Ramirez
Join us for a mind-bending evening with neuroscientist Dr. Steve Ramirez as he reveals how flexible and powerful our memories truly are. As a graduate student at MIT, Dr. Ramirez made headlines by implanting false memories in mice, demonstrating that memory is not a fixed recording, but something that can be reshaped.
Now an associate professor of psychological and brain sciences at Boston University, his lab explores how activating, editing, and even constructing memories from scratch might help treat conditions like PTSD, Alzheimer’s, and depression. Drawing from his personal journey of discovery, friendship, loss, and healing, Dr. Ramirez will examine how every act of remembering subtly rewrites our past—and what that means for our mental health and identity.
Featured on CNN, NPR, BBC, and in The New York Times, National Geographic, Wired, Forbes, The Guardian, The Economist, and Nature, Dr. Ramirez is an award-winning scientist and TED speaker whose debut book is How to Change a Memory: One Neuroscientist’s Quest to Alter the Past.
Get a drink, connect, and learn at Lectures on Tap! 🙌
Agenda
6:30 PM – Doors open: find a seat (open seating!), order food & drinks, and expect a bar line—arriving early is key.
6:55 PM – Host introduction
7:00 PM – Lecture begins
7:45 PM – Audience Q&A
8:00 PM – Have 1:1 time with the speaker, mingle with fellow guests, and order another round
8:30 PM – Wrap up.
