2022 Thesis Titles

• Impaired Salience Attribution in Drug Addiction                                                        

• The Effect of Early Life Stress on Susceptibility to Later PTSD

• Maternal SARS CoV-2 Infection During Pregnancy and Infant Neurodevelopment at 9 Months

• The Effect of Gestational Diabetes on Fetal Autonomic Nervous System Function   

• Mapping Cortical Language Sites in Patients with Refractory Epilepsy                                  

• Long-term Implications of Early Treatment with Fluoxetine on Sociability and Behavior Flexibility

• Collagen Fibers in the Tectorial Membrane                                         

• Freezing Suppression in Peripartum and Postpartum Mouse Dams

• Characterizing Fear Memories in Rats: DREADDful?

• Modeling the Effects of Social and Cognitive Factors on Adolescent Writing                        

• The Ventral Hippocampus in Probabilistic Learning   

• The Role of the Dorsal Hippocampus in Tracking Temporal Dynamics                                 

• Astrocyte Pathology in Progressive Supranuclear Palsy (PSP)

• Can Hypnosis Help Us Face Our Fears

• Occupation and Resting State Functional Connectivity

• The Neural Correlates of Perceptual Surprise                          

• Baseline Predictors of Response to Intermittent Theta Burst Stimulation in Heavy Cannabis Users

• Sexually Dimorphic Effects of Light at Night in Drosophila

• Striatal Dopamine in Sensory Processing and Hallucination-like Perception

• Mapping Regulatory Networks of Autism Risk During Neurodevelopment

• Impulsivity in Cocaine Users with Respect to Sex Differences and Route of Use

• How Has the COVID-19 Pandemic Impacted Cannabis Use and Mood in Adult

• Recreational Cannabis Users? (Stephanie Collins Reed, Suzette Evans)         

• The Relationship Between Olfactory Receptor Choice and the Transcription Factor Ddit3

• The Sweet Smell of Attraction: How does Olfaction Mediate the Attraction to Sugars?

• Control of Feeding Behavior in Mouse Cerebellum

• Investigating the Immune Response to α-Synuclein in a Mouse Model for Parkinson’s Disease

• Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Prefrontal Adolescent Plasticity
• Numerical Perception Bias and Decision Making

• Juvenile Peer Experience Shapes Later Play Behavior and Adult Aggression

• Serotonin Transduction Between Mother and Fetus: Does Maternal Serotonin Cross the Placenta?

• Impact of Lateral Septum Stimulation on Aggressive Behavior in Female Mice

• The Two Halves of a Compound Word Can Be Recognized Simultaneously

• Redundancy Gains in Word Recognition

• Capacity Limits on Word Recognition: Letter Identification and Phonological Processing

• Establishing a Syngeneic Murine Model of Diffuse Midline Glioma

• Elucidating the Divergent Local Neuronal Projections to the Basolateral Amygdala That Mediate Resilience to Social Stress

• Associations between Prenatal Maternal Stress, Fetal Hippocampal Functional Connectivity and Toddler Executive Functioning 

• Dendritic Spine Alterations in the Basolateral Amygdala in Response to Chronic Social Defeat Stress in Mice       

• Mice Condition Cephalic-Phase Insulin Release to the Flavor of Maltodextrin, but not Saccharin or Sucrose

• Age- and Sex-dependent Changes in Cellular Proliferation in the Dorsal and Ventral Hippocampus: Does Location Matter?

• Newborn and One Month Old Babies Show More Spontaneous Facial Expressions in Active Sleep Than in Quiet Sleep

• Impact of Optogenetic Modulation of Serotonergic Neurons in the Ventral Hippocampus on Social Memory in Mice