Adam Bevan and Dr. Scott Steffensen, Psychology In today’s world addiction is pandemic. So many people are slaves to these controlling chemicals, from alcohol and street drugs to the more mild substances of coffee or over-thecounter medications. All these substances tend to influence brain chemistry, and the aim of our ongoing project is to uncover […]
White Matter Hyperintensities in the Normal Population
Callie Beck and Dr. Ramona O. Hopkins, Psychology White-matter hyperintensities (WMHs) are unidentified bright objects in the white matter regions of the brain and have been observed on magnetic resonance (MR) brain images since the mid-1980s. Numerous studies have been conducted to determine the relationship between WMHs and various pathologic conditions such as hypertension, stroke, […]
Links Between Childhood Physical Abuse and Psychosocial Adjustment in Adulthood
Jennifer Killpack and Dr. Christopher M. Layne, Clinical Psychology Childhood physical and sexual abuse (CA) is associated with a greatly increased risk for problems in adulthood (Rumstein-McKean, & Hunsley, 2001). Prevalence rates of depression, posttraumatic stress disorder, interpersonal difficulties, and adult victimization are higher among women with a history of CA (Ornduff, Kelsey, & O’Leary, […]
PREEXPOSURE OF LiCl AND CCK-8: EFFECTS ON TASTE AVERSION CONDITIONING
Tyler J. Gerritsen, Gregory N. Ervin, Psychology Taste aversion conditioning is a uniquely learned behavior. In most laboratory cases, the subjects receive a dose of the drug in question and a bottle of saccharin (sacc). Ordinarily, rats will strongly prefer drinking sacc to water (Fig. 1). Whereas with taste aversion, rats develop an aversion to […]
TESTING PRESCHOOLERS: MY FIRST SHOT AT EMPIRICAL RESEARCH
Miriam Carey and Dr. Gawain Wells, Psychology About a year ago I signed up to be part of the Y-OQ research group. I didn’t really know what the Y-OQ was, I just wanted some research experience. The professor in charge grinned slyly when I asked what I could do to help. He said, “We could […]
Education in Rural Mexico: What Stops Students?
Jared A. Wilkerson and Dr. Harold Miller, Psychology Providing regular education in rural Mexico has been a focus for the Mexican government for the last few decades. Even twenty years ago, many teachers were quite unwilling to visit rural areas, where the facilities and transportation were far under par. By the beginning of this decade, […]
Philosophy of Science Considerations for the Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) Controversy in Psychotherapy
Dennis Wendt and Dr. Brent D. Slife, Psychology The modern age is an age of evidence. A library search of “evidence-based” returns hundreds of entries: evidence-based auditing, social work, wound management, crime prevention, educational methods—the list goes on and on. Virtually any discipline or industry is receiving increased pressure to justify their methods and practices […]
Myelin Basic Protein and Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein Antibodies in Autism
Edward Stevenson and Dr. Erin Bigler, Psychology and Neuroscience Introduction Autism is a developmental disorder. There has been an increasing trend in the diagnosis of autism in the past 15 years. After years of research there is still little agreement as to the causes of autism. It has been hypothesized that autistics could be the […]
Alleged Rape Perception and Function of Ambivalent Sexism
Adriane Queiroz and Dr. Niwako Yamawaki, Psychology The purpose of this study was to discover how a perceived power difference between rape victim and perpetrator influence external observers’ rape perception, or more specifically, to investigate the effects of a rapist’s power status on rape perceptions, such as minimization of the seriousness of rape, blaming victim, […]
Effects of the Neurosteroid Pregnenolone Sulfate on Hippocampal Physiology
Marc Jones and Dr. Scott Steffensen, Psychology Several recent studies have established a role for estrogens in ameliorating specific neurodegenerative disorders, mainly those associated with the cholinergic neurons of the basal forebrain and their targets in the cortex and hippocampus. We have previously demonstrated that endogenous and exogenous application of the neurosteroid dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate (DHEAS) […]
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