#  MBB Class of 2022: Thesis Titles 

 



  
Listed are the concentrations, thesis titles and thesis advisors with affiliations of track students.  
  
  
**Hannah Alton** (Neuroscience), *Developing Human Stem Cell Models to Probe Mechanisms of Therapeutic Psychedelics* (advisor Stephen Haggarty, HMS)  
  
**Thet (Michelle) Aye** (Neuroscience), *Characterization of Drug Penetration through the Rhesus Monkey Blood-Brain-Barrier using MALDI Mass Spectrometry Imaging and Immunohistochemistry* (advisors Nathalie Agar, HMS & Sylwia Stopka, HMS & Elisa York, HMS)   
  
**Jacob Blair (**Neuroscience-Philosophy), *We Can’t All Be Right: The Neural Correlates of Distinguishing between Fact and Opinion Statements in a Political Context* (advisor Mina Cikara, FAS/Psychology)  
  
**Alexandre Chaumette** (Neuroscience), *Psychosocial Adversity and Language Learning Outcomes of 2- and 5-year-old Bangladeshi Children: An fNIRS Analysis* (advisor Charles Nelson, HMS)  
  
**Sheila De La Cruz** (Neuroscience), *Maternal Depression and Infant Internalizing Behaviors: Potential Mediation and Moderation Roles of EEG Frontal Alpha Asymmetry and Child Opportunity Index* (advisor Charles Nelson, HMS)  
  
**Jenny Gan** (Neuroscience), *Investigating Alterations in Neural Responses During Evoked Pain Following Mindfulness Intervention in Patients with Anxiety and Depression* (advisors Zev Schuman-Olivier, HMS & Mike Datko, HMS)  
  
**Andrew Siyoon Ham** (Neuroscience), *Nociceptor Control over Resolution of Inflammation and Tissue Repair in the Skin* (advisor Clifford Woolf, HMS)   
  
**Katrina Hon** (Neuroscience), *Sexual Dimorphism of the Hippocampus Structure and Function in Psychosis* (advisor Marek Kubicki, HMS)   
  
**Pechthida Kim** (Psychology), *The Evaluative Nature of Summaries* (advisors Tomer Ullman, FAS/Psychology and Julian De Freitas, HBS)  
  
**Elizabeth Kinard** (Neuroscience), *Opioid Dependence and Withdrawal-Driven Modulations of Feeding Behavior in Male and Female Rats* (Elena Chartoff, HMS)  
  
**Caroline Kremer** (Neuroscience), Perceptual Hypersensitivity to Sound Following Acoustic Trauma (advisor Daniel Polley, HMS)  
  
**Darius Lam** (Computer Science), *Video Representation Learning via Actons* (advisor Hanspeter Pfister, FAS/SEAS)   
  
**Huong Le** (Neuroscience), *Molecular RNA and protein machinery within subtype-specific corticospinal neurons and their synapses as potential underpinnings of selective vulnerability in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis* (advisor Jeffrey Macklis, FAS/HMS, Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology)  
  
**Uriel Martinez** (Neuroscience), *An Exploration of the Relationship between REM Theta Power Spectral Density and Extinction Retention* (advisor Edward Pace-Schott, HMS)   
  
**Te Palandjian** (Philosophy), *Taking People as They Could Be? Social Ethos and the Viability of Social Egalitarianism* (advisor Lucas Stanczyk, FAS/Philosophy)   
  
**Abigail Pan** (Neuroscience), *Investigations of Exercise-Induced Neuroprotection: NMR Analyses of Blood Based Biomark**s*(advisor Erin Hecht, FAS/Human Evolutionary Biology)   
  
**Anastasia Ryhanych** (Neuroscience), Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging-Based Individualized Mapping of the Lateral Salience System in Major Depressive Disorder (advisor Matthew Sacchet, HMS)  
  
**Jason Xiliang Shen** (Neuroscience), Mapping Aggression Neurocircuitry in a UBE3A Mouse Model of Autism (advisors Matthew Anderson, HMS & Clifford Saper, HMS)  
  
**Zoya Surani** (Neuroscience), *Determining the relationship between psychosocial adversity and children’s executive functioning: an fMRI study* (advisor Nadine Gaab, GSE)