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Predictors of Off-Diagonal Binge Drinking and Marijuana Use Trajectory Groups Through the Transition to Adulthood.
(2016)
Binge drinking and marijuana use are serious health risk behaviors. Early onset, chronic users tend to receive the majority of clinical and empirical attention. However, developmental studies have identified multiple ...
Continuity and Change in Theory-of-Mind Development: A Neuroscientific Approach.
(2013)
This dissertation seeks a more comprehensive picture of the process of theory-of-mind development (an understanding that action is guided by internal mental states such as beliefs, desires, and intentions) by examining ...
Sex Differences in the Neuroimmune Modulation of Learning and Memory
(2022)
The neuroimmune system is a specialized immune system in the brain crucial for both responding to illness and injury as well as regulating normal neural function and behavior. As such, it is perhaps not surprising that ...
Role of Central Amygdala Opioids in Incentive Motivation: Translating Learning into Focused and Amplified 'Wanting'.
(2009)
Wanting a reward like food is different from liking it, and the brain processes these sensations separately. Components of the limbic system mediate both, and here I examined how different neurochemical signals (opioids ...
Role of Noradrenergic Signaling in the Basolateral Amygdala in Habituation to Repeated Stress.
(2009)
The hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis is an important stress-responsive system, but overactivity of the HPA axis can be detrimental to the physiological and psychological health of the organism. HPA activity ...
Memory, Interference and Depression.
(2010)
This dissertation explores the role of interference in short-term memory and how interference in memory may influence depression. The first chapter tackles whether forgetting in the short-term is due to decay with the ...
Associations between accelerated parental biologic age, autism spectrum disorder, social traits, and developmental and cognitive outcomes in their children
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2022-12)
Parental age is a known risk factor for autism spectrum disorder (ASD), however, studies to identify the biologic changes underpinning this association are limited. In recent years, “epigenetic clock” algorithms have been ...
Mimicking partial to total placental insufficiency in a rabbit model of cerebral palsy
(Springer International PublishingWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2022-12)
All placental abruptions begin as partial abruptions, which sometimes manifest as fetal bradycardia. The progression from partial to total abruption was mimicked by a new rabbit model of placental insufficiency, and we ...