Neuroscience

Cameron Truman-Wyss
From Mindfulness to Emotional Intelligence: Analyzing The Effects of Mindfulness-Based Interventions on Emotion Perception and Emotion Regulation in a Clinical Population

Isabelle Wydler
Students’ Psychophysiological Responses to Trigger Warnings and Literature

Chelsea Smith
Substance use and sensation-seeking moderates the relationships between childhood adversity and white-matter microstructure.

Francesca Whitecross
NPLP4’s influence on fruit fly alcohol behaviors

Wen (Diana) Xu
Concreteness of Data Visualization Influences Perception of Wildfire Risks

Neuroscience Reception for graduating seniors, family and friends. Refreshments will be served in the McCardell Bicentennial Hall Great Hall.

Hieu Nguyen
“Assessing direct effects of testosterone upon spatial memory systems in adult male rats”

Yanruo (Alice) Zhang
“Genome-wide Associasion Studies on Schizophrenia in East Asian Cohorts”

Lily Siemasko
“Examining the Role of GDE6 in Vertebrate Neural Tube Development”

Neuroscience Reception for graduating seniors, family and friends. Refreshments will be served in the McCardell Bicentennial Hall Great Hall.

Title: A distant mirror: What salamander learning can teach us about neural circuit evolution

Brain, body, and mindfulness: New understandings of the “self” Lecturer: Catherine Kerr, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine, Director of Translational Neuroscience Contemplative Studies Initiative, Brown University This talk will describe recent studies drawn from the neuroscience of embodiment in order to lay out a novel understanding of the “self”.

Pituitary adenylate cyclase activating polypeptide (PACAP) in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST): A nexus for stress and emotion Exposure to stressful stimuli has been argued to play an important role in the etiology of anxiety disorders, and increases in anxiety-like behavior are often observed in rodents repeatedly exposed to environmental stressors. Several brain nuclei have been implicated in coordinating the autonomic, endocrine and behavioral response to stressor exposure.

Lecture Title: “Hormones have their ups and downs: Bi-directional effects of estrogens on learning and memory.”

Body feelings: Investigating neural mechanisms underlying embodiment and contemplative practice Lecturer: Catherine Kerr, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine, Director of Translational Neuroscience Contemplative Studies Initiative, Brown University This presentation describes recent investigations into two body perception networks in the brain.