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The field of art therapy has gained momentum in its collaboration with neuroscience in the quest for greater empirical evidence for the efficacy of the field. While there have been a few studies testing the applicability of salivary...
It is well established that estrogens suppress feeding primarily by reducing meal size, and that this is partly mediated by enhancement of the response to satiation signals. Glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) acts on receptor populations...
The present study investigated the possible relationship between parental experience and expression of acetylated histone H3 in various brain regions associated with parental behavior in male and female prairie voles (Michrotus...
The current study examines P300 amplitude reduction (P3-AR) found in those who exhibit externalizing and depression in response to target stimuli in a computer based novelty task. The method employed to examine this was advanced time...
What biological processes underlie self-control, such that this adaptive skill differs among people and appears to be functionally limited? The current research aims to answer this question by proposing that adenosine, an inhibitory...
Mating incurs costs to lifespan across species. Given that mating is a necessity for survival of most species, but yet has health costs, a method of modulating reproductive strategies under various environmental conditions to give...
What accounts for the stark changes in emotion, cognition, and behavior in women during the premenstrual phase of the menstrual cycle? I hypothesize that, in addition to the effects of hormones, a lack of self-control may account for...
Nicotine use during adolescence is associated with the development of many debilitating pathologies in adulthood such as anxiety and depression. Adolescence is a time of many social pressures and biological changes occurring within the...
Social defeat has become a relevant topic of research due to the prevalence of bullying and violence in our society and the lasting behavioral and physiological effects on the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis. In contrast, ...
The small golden ant Pheidole morrisi Forel is the most common ant of the Apalachicola National Forest, a typical longleaf pine flat-woods ecosystem and is found in pine forests across the eastern U.S. P. morrisi likely plays a...
Overconsumption of highly palatable "junk food" contributes to obesity and related metabolic disorders. This project investigated the brain circuitry that allows such eating in excess of the body's energy requirements. We hypothesized...
The elevated plus maze, a behavioral test commonly used with rodents, has been successfully used with prairie voles in previous studies to assess anxiety-like behaviors. However, whether or not the light-dark box, another common...
This study examined the association between a parent’s socioeconomic status, stress, and emotion regulation abilities (i.e., cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression) and that parent’s emotion-related socialization behaviors ...
A holistic behavior change (BC) program comprised of both exercise and emotional support (EES; n = 4) for stress reduction and enhanced psychological well-being was designed. The purpose of the study was to evaluate and compare the...
Background: Social exclusion is a robust correlate of suicidal ideation and behavior. However, there is little research examining the biological factors contributing to the link between social exclusion and suicide risk. Prior research...
Paternal behavior is an interesting and important research topic due to its integral contribution to the fitness and well-being of multiple species, including humans. Although paternal behavior is well described in literature, attempts...
My dissertation focuses on how the brain encodes a learned motor sequence. I look at the encoding of birdsong in the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata) to understand the mechanisms that underlie motor encoding. Juvenile zebra finches...
Varies studies done on humans and animal models alike show the importance of healthy social relationships. Parental care (especially bi-parental care) is shown to be an important factor for the proper development and overall outcome of...
Recent research using TF analysis has suggested that two processes underlie performance feedback event-related potentials (ERPs): a reward sensitive process in the delta range (delta-reward positivity; 0-3 Hz) and a loss sensitive...
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) embodies a spectrum of complex, pervasive, and heterogeneous neurodevelopmental disorders. There is not one single identified cause, but is instead composed of dynamically diverse etiologies and...
Not much is known about the effects of saliva on bitter taste modulation, although there has been evidence suggesting a relationship between proline-rich proteins and increased acceptance of tannin-containing diets. This experiment was...
Depression is a devastating disease that is the leading cause of disability worldwide. One reason for its massive disease burden is that classical antidepressants require several weeks of administration to take effect, and they are only...
Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) regulates synaptic plasticity and neurogenesis, and BDNF plasma and serum levels have been associated with depression, Alzheimer's disease, and other psychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders....
This experiment was designed to examine the impact of chronic stress exposure on nicotine consumption. Adolescent (postnatal days, PD 38-75) male mice underwent 10 days of social defeat, were treated with one month (long-term) of forced...
The taste system enables the detection and discrimination of potential nutrient sources necessary for maintaining essential life processes. Nutrients bind with taste receptors in the oral cavity that convert the food-derived signal into...
Oxytocin (OXT) is a peptide with important regulatory roles in both physiological and behavioral contexts. OXT binds to the OXT receptor (OXTR) in the central and peripheral nervous systems, with diverse patterns of expression dependent...
Pupil dilation (PD) has recently been reported as an index of activity in the locus coeruleus (LC), which is known to be integral to orienting processes, where adaptive gain theory and the LC-P3 hypothesis have been important to...
This dissertation sought to investigate the Hierarchical Model of Vocational Meaning (HMVM), a theoretical model that could be used to explore constructs of meaning thought to be associated with vocation. There is a gap in the literature...
After the discontinuation of Polycose, the most commonly used maltodextrin in past taste research, investigators have had to rely on other sources. Two newer sources, marketed as replacements, are Maltrin M580 by Grain Processing Corp....
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