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Neuronal Migration: How Do You Build A Brain?, Sravya Uppalapati
Neuronal Migration: How Do You Build A Brain?, Sravya Uppalapati
Auctus: The Journal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship
Senior biology major Alex Burkard is working in the Walsh Neurodevelopment Laboratory at VCU to help answer the question, ‘How do you build a brain?’ Burkard is researching neuronal migration in Zebrafish and how cellular polarity affects hindbrain development.
Understanding Nicotine Addition: Dependency As A Result Of Maladaptive Brain Structure, Nate Thomas
Understanding Nicotine Addition: Dependency As A Result Of Maladaptive Brain Structure, Nate Thomas
Auctus: The Journal of Undergraduate Research and Creative Scholarship
Nicotine addiction is the most prevalent, destructive dependency found in our culture. Despite its well-documented damaging health risks, nicotine use is still widely accepted and could be conceptualized as a social epidemic. Much of this acceptance may stem from nicotine’s lack of debilitating cognitive effects, as compared to those of other abused drugs. However, what may reign dominantly over nicotine’s legality is simple cultural precedent: tobacco has never been illegal and holds a place in human history. Therefore, attempting to alter this would prove highly unpopular and unsuccessful. This macroscopic irrationality, a blind favor for cultural precedents, parallels the irrational …