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"I Is An Other": An Exploration Of The Development Of Childhood And Adolescent Self-Concept, Jessica Lebovits
"I Is An Other": An Exploration Of The Development Of Childhood And Adolescent Self-Concept, Jessica Lebovits
Senior Projects Spring 2012
A multidisciplinary project that combines original empirical research with an analysis of two Modernist novels, The Waves by Virginia Woolf and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce.
The Impact Of Ptsd On Veterans’ Family Relationships: Mechanisms Of Distress And Available Treatments, Adam D. Lamotte
The Impact Of Ptsd On Veterans’ Family Relationships: Mechanisms Of Distress And Available Treatments, Adam D. Lamotte
Senior Projects Spring 2012
When veterans return home from war with PTSD, the disorder can have detrimental effects on their close family relationships. Researchers have proposed different mechanisms underlying the distress experienced by partners and children of veterans with PTSD in the hopes that these mechanisms can be targeted in treatment. The purpose of this project is to review and synthesize the current literature on these mechanisms of distress, as well as the treatments that have been designed to address them. This review examines several key factors that account for veterans’ relationship distress, including the important factors of intimacy and aggression. Due to the …
The Glutamate Hypothesis Of Schizophrenia: Assessment Of A Novel Antipsychotic In Zebrafish Larvae, William Vitale
The Glutamate Hypothesis Of Schizophrenia: Assessment Of A Novel Antipsychotic In Zebrafish Larvae, William Vitale
Senior Projects Spring 2012
The glutamate hypothesis is a new theory of schizophrenia which proposes that deficient glutamatergic transmission at the NMDA receptor underlies the positive, negative, and cognitive symptoms of the disorder. In addition to tracing the development of the glutamate hypothesis in depth, this senior project presents a study investigating the effects of a novel antipsychotic in zebrafish. Zebrafish are an emerging model of several CNS disorders, including schizophrenia, and it has been demonstrated that NMDA-R antagonism induces motor hyperactivity in zebrafish adults and larvae. Previous research supports an ability of typical and atypical antipsychotics to reverse these motor effects in zebrafish …