2023 Thesis Titles

• Assessing the Concordance between Self-Reported and Objective Sleep Measures in a Cohort of Individuals in the Pre- and Post-Partum Period

• P. Maniculatus and P. Polionotus and Social Memory Dynamic

• Immunohistochemical quantification of dopamine transporter DAT and tyrosine hydroxylase Th positive cells in the brain of a mouse with CHD8 haploinsufficiency

• The Effect of Early Life Stress on Food Preference, Adiposity, and Hypothalamic Gene Expression

• Cycle Controls Axonal Development in Drosophila Circadian Clock Neurons

• A Novel Approach of a Regenerative Study to Investigate the Protective Effect of Microglial

• Mutations Associated with Clonal Hematopoiesis Indeterminate Potential Against Behavioral and Neuropathological Symptoms of Alzheimer’s Disease

• Defining Markers of Critical Period Onset and Offset in the Prefrontal and Visual Cortex

• Assessing Dopamine Affected Behaviors in Mice Heterozygous for the Autism Risk Gene CHD8

• HLA DRB1 Tissue Typing Shows Antigen HLA-DRB1 as a Possible Predictor of Dry Eye Disease DED

• The Impact of Early Life Adversity on Striatal Dopamine: Implications for Internet Addiction and TikTok's Algorithm

• Exploring the Depth of Information That Readers Can Extract from Two Words at Once

• Effect of Autism Spectrum Disorder Risk Gene Chd8 Loss on Gene Expression in the Midbrain of Chd8+/- Mice

• Microglial UPR Deletion Rescues Cognitive Deficits in AD Mice

• Developmental Inhibition of the Striatal Indirect Pathway Causes a Mild Dysregulation of Dopamine Release in the Nucleus Accumbens but Does Not Affect Motivated Behavior

• Is there Behavioral and Metabolic Evidence for a Glucose-specific Taste Pathway?

• Activation of Fear-related Regions After Threat Anticipation in Male and Female Mice in Response to Early Life Adversity

• Developing a Radiofrequency RF Phosphorous Coil for MRI

• The Breakfast Task with Emphasis Change Strategy: A Computerized Multitasking Cognitive Training for Older Adults

• Counterfactual Inference During Adolescence

• Deep Neural Networks Exhibit Similar Patterns to Humans in Visual Search Tasks Comparing Familiar versus Unfamiliar Faces

• Astrocyte Number in the Presence of Early Life Stress ELS

• Characterizing Selective Serotonergic Targets: Novel Psychedelic Analogs Ariadne and DL- 4

• Connectomic Analysis of Learning in A Cerebellum-like Circuit

• Drosophila May Prefer to Seek Shelter in Response to an Incoming Visual Threat

• Anosmic T1R3-KO Mice Glucose vs. Fructose Discrimination

• Childhood Irritability and Inhibitory Control

• Spatially-Resolved Transcriptomics Analysis of Human Hippocampus via Visium

• Assessing the Necessity of Dorsolateral Periaqueductal Gray Serotonin Signaling for the Expression of Defensive Behaviors

• Is There Behavioral and Metabolic Evidence for a Glucose-specific Pathway?

• Smartphone-Delivered Progressive Muscle Relaxation for Treatment of Migraine And Comorbid Insomnia

• Identifying the Neural Ensembles Mediating Fear Generalization During Adolescence

• Context-dependent Effects of Psilocybin on the Paraventricular Nucleus of the HypothalamusBrain-wide Circadian Timekeeping

• Applying a Novel Therapeutic to Alleviate Traumatic Brain Injury-Induced Fear Generalization

• Dopamine Encoding of Reward Rates in Ventral Striatum

• Non-canonical Output Pathways of the Basal Ganglia in Locomotor and Cognitive Behaviors

• Role of Molecular Circadian Clocks in the Two-Process Model of Sleep Regulation in Drosophila

• Investigating Sex Differences in Different Models of Inescapable Stress

• Validating the SWAY Medical App as a Measure of Postural Sway in Huntington Disease

• Associations Between Maternal Mental Health and the Home Language Environment/language Development Postpartum

• Repeated Chemogenetic Activation of Dopamine Neurons Evokes Reversible Changes in Baseline and Amphetamine-Induced Behaviors

• Identifying Bitter-responding Neuron Populations in the Central Amygdala That Generate Valence

• Schizophrenia and the Role of Striatal Dopamine in the Appearance of Behavioral Deficits in Df16A+/- Mouse Model

• Establishing the Relationship Between Autophagy and Sleep in Neurodegenerative Diseases

• Pubertal Differences in the Expression of Excitatory Amino Acid Receptor Subunits in the Paraventricular Nucleus of Rats: Relevance to Stress Reactivity

• Neurovascular Remodeling and Functional Recovery in Ischemic Stroke

• Maternal Stress During COVID-19: Investigating the Impact on Mother-Infant Bonding Using fMRI

• Validating a Novel Method of Tracking Neuronal Activity in the Whole Brain Using the Immediate Early Gene c-Fos

• Exploring the role of the BNST in Unpredictable Reward Learning in Operant Conditioning

• Investigating the Role of DNA Methylation Enzymes in BLA-Dependent Memory Formation and Maintenance

• Behavioral effects of NMDA-NR2b inhibition in the slc1a1-overexpression model of OCD   

• Notch in Drosophila R7 Photoreceptor

• The Prevalence of Interictal Anxiety in People with Epilepsy with and without Anxiety Auras

• Effects of Early Fluoxetine Exposure on Adolescent Mouse Motivational Behavior: A Longitudinal Study

• Diagnostic Potential of Protein Fibrils

• Intracortical Myelination in Visual Areas of Schizophrenia Patients as Defined Through Population Receptive Field Mapping

• Monitoring Dopamine Release and Neuronal Activity in the Nucleus Accumbens and Dorsal Medial Striatum During Inhibitory Learning

• Effects of Cannabis on Low-dose Oxycodone Abuse Liability and Analgesia

• Investigating the Role of Fission and Fusion in Mitochondrial Dynamics in Neurons

• Characterizing the Role of the vSUB-BLA Pathway in Fear Learning

• Persisting Language Deficits Following SARS CoV-2 Infection

• How to ask Mice if They Can See: From a Caspase Perspective

• Implications of Tau Pathology on Spatial Memory and Navigation

• Theoretical Modelling of Attentional Set Shifting Task De-Optimization

• Alzheimer’s Disease: The Propagation Mechanism Used by Neurofibrillary Tangles Tau and How it Results in the Progression of the Disease

• Numerosity Perception and Time

• Post-Operative Cognitive Functioning in Stereo-electroencephalography Language Mapping Patients: A Preliminary Study