2025 Thesis Titles

 

• Biofeedback-Assisted Relaxation Therapy for Patients with Migraine

• The Effects of Prenatal Alcohol & Tobacco Exposure on Neonatal Circuitry

• The Effect of Adolescent Social Isolation on Neuronal Activity in the Medial Thalamus and Prefrontal Cortex of Mice

• Exploring the Role of the Medial Prefrontal Cortex in Cooperative Behavior

• Fear Memory in the Unique Adolescent Brain

• Neural Projections from the BNST Involved in Aversive and Appetitive Behaviors

• Understanding Neural Mechanisms of Context Dependent Multisensory Learning in Drosophila

• Contextual & Multisensory Learning in Drosophila

• Should I Lay or Should I Go: Using the Connectome to Model the Oviposition Decision Making Circuit in Drosophila

• Bifurcation Dynamics of the Splitting Behavior in Hamsters using a Gated Oscillator Model

• Cheeseboards and Circuitry: Dissociating MEC and LEC Contributions in Memory Recall and Encoding

• Ethanol Induced Changes in Activity and GIRK1 Implications in Ethanol Reward and Locomotor Activity

• Investigating Age-Associated Gene Expression Changes in Normal Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease

• Impact of Ablating GluN2b/Grin2b in

• Role of Two Taste Signaling Proteins in Ingestive and Metabolic Responses of Mice to Sugars

• If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, Will It Condition and Insulin Response to It?

• Differential Dependence on IP3R3 Signaling Across Taste Modalities

• Tfam Knockouts as a Model of Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Parkinson’s Disease

• Early Signs, Silent Shifts: Exploring Vascular Aging and Cerebral Blood Flow in Young Adults

• The Impact of Habitual Exercise on Vascular Aging & Neurovascular Coupling

• Treatment of Inflammatory Chronic Pain with Focused Ultrasound Neuromodulation

• Characterizing IDH1-Mutant Gliomas Treated with Ivosidenib and RSL3

• Chronic, Combinatorial Targeting of NMDARs and 5-HT4Rs Enhances Memory Retrieval and Rescues Neurotoxic GFAP Pathology in a Mouse Model of Alzheimer’s Disease

• Characterizing Distinct Signaling Pathways of ADGRL3 Splice Variants with and without Exon 30A

• Effects of Limited BDNF Bioavailability on ELA-induced Acceleration of Hippocampal Neuronal Maturation  in Male Mice

• Mind Over Munchies: Investigating the Effects of Chronic THC Exposure on CBI-Dependent Behavioral Tetrad

• The Role of Noradrenaline in Stress-Induced Olfactory Plasticity

• Linking Early-Life SES to Biological Aging and Language Outcomes in the First 18 Months

• Controlling Reward-Driven Behavior in Peromyscus via Optogenetic Manipulation of the Dopaminergic Reward System

• Neural Circuit Plasticity in the Amydgala Transforms Infant Neglect into Maternal Care

• Beta Oscillations in the Mouse Prefrontal-thalamic Circuit Reflect Working Memory Dynamics

• Inducible Knockdown of DDX3X in Human iPSC-Derived Neurons Reveals Effects on Neurite Morphology and Network Activity

• Dual EEG-Based Approach to Study the Effect of Disruptive CHD8 Mutation on Neural Activity in People & Mice

• Assessing D1 and D2 Expressing MSNs Activation in the Nucleus Accumbens Following Early SSRI Exposure and Mu-Opioid Receptor Antagonism

• Mechanisms of PSD95-tau and PSD95-nNOS Interactions

• Elucidating the Mechanism of Resistance to HDAC Inhibitors in Group 3 Medulloblastoma

• Nuclear Morphology as a Biomarker for Alzheimers Disease

• Investigating Lipid Droplets in Parkinson's Disease Neurons

• Mapping Stromal NGF-TrkA Signaling and a Mast Cell-neurovascular Niche in Gastric Cancer Progression

• A Novel Approach to Spatially and Temporally Manipulate Developing Serotonergic Circuitry

• Investigating the Impact of ARID1B Mutations on Activity-dependent Transcription in Human Neurons

• Utilizing in Vivo Epigenome Editing To Decipher the Impacts of Methylation Status on C9ORF72 Repeat Expansion-mediated ALS/FTD

• Experience-dependent Recruitment of Reward-encoding Cells in Hippocampal CA1 During Spatial Navigation

• Investigating Phenotypes Associated with Midbrain Deletion of Chd8, an Autism Risk Gene

• Socioeconomic Predictors and Developmental Impacts of Toddler Sleep Health

• N170 ERP as a Marker of Experience-dependent Visual Word Expertise in Bilingual Adults with English L2

• Psychological Resilience in World Trade Center Responders is Associated with Effective Brain Network Connectivity

• Serotonin and Fear: Role of SSRIs on 5-HT Signaling of GABAergic Cells During Active Risk Assessment

• The Causal Role of Dopamine in Encoding Reward Rates

• The Role of the Anterior Cingulate Cortex in Effort-Based Decision-Making

• The Role of Dopamine in Reward Probability

• The Role of the Basolateral Amygdala and Nucleus Accumbens in Processing Uncertainty

• Beyond the Norm: Empirical Violations of Normative Estimates in Human Information Seeking & Risk Taking

• Congruent Category Labels Facilitate Rapid Scene Categorization

• Maternal Serotonin System and Uterine Environment Effects on Offspring Neurodevelopment and Behavior

• Maternal Serotonin System and Uterine Effects on Offspring Neurodevelopment and Behavior

• Influence of Perceived Racial Discrimination as a Chronic Stressor on Memory Systems in Adolescents

• Investigating the Role of Orexin-A in Pubertal Differences in Hormonal Stress Reactivity

• Is it Possible for Adult Female Mice to Exert Natural Aggression within the Male-exclusive Chronic Social Defeat Stress Model?

• In the Suprachiasmatic Nucleus, Gastrin-releasing Peptide Interacts with Nearby Capillaries, Questioning Our Understanding of the Blood-brain Barrier

• Localization of Vasopressin in Brain Perivascular Spaces: Effects of Daily Rhythms and Water Deprivation

• Enlarged Posterior Striatum in 22q11DS Mice: A New Clue to Dopamnine Dysregulation and Positive Symptoms

• Differential Layer Activity in the LEC: Exploring the Mechanism of Novelty and Familiarity Processing

• Optimizing Behavioral Paradigms for CRISPR-Based Aging Models

• Does the Passage of Time During Task Performance Influence Alpha Oscillations and Illusory Perception?

• Is There a Link Between Individual Differences in Alpha Oscillations and Changes in the Neural and Perceptual Responses to 10 Hz Visual Flicker?

• The Effects of Vaporized Cannabis on Oral Temperature and Heart Rate: A Human Laboratory Study

• Do Individual Differences in Alpha Rhythms Predict Differences in Hallucination Proneness?

• Can 10 Hz Rhythmic Stimulation Cause Entrainment in Alpha Oscillations?

• Exploring the Relationship Between Self-generated Cognition and Resting-state Brain Rhythms

• Do Inter-individual Differences in Spontaneous Brain Activity Explain Whether Someone Experiences Fade-outs vs. Psuedohallucinations in Ganzfeld?

• The Brain's Response to Looking at Nothing

• Do Individual Differences in Mind-Wandering Relate to Changes in Task Performance and Alpha Rhythms?

• Mind Wandering is Linked to Alpha Oscillations but not to the Aperiodic Signal

• Alpha Oscillations Reflect Objective and Subjective Metrics of Mind-Wandering