MBB Theses, Class of 2014
Mary Kate Abel, Neurobiology, Individual differences in pitch perception: A functional and structural neural connectivity study (advisors Gottfried Schlaug, HMS & Psyche Loui, Wesleyan)
Ashley Bach, Neurobiology, The developmental regulation of TRP channel expression in oligodendrocytes (advisors Paul Rosenberg, HMS & Christopher Elitt, HMS)
Merlissa Coronado, Neurobiology, Diffusion tensor imaging of the stria terminalis in schizophrenia (advisor Martha Shenton, HMS)
Morgan Henry, Neurobiology, Emergence of orientation invariant representations within the visual cortez (advisor George Alvarez, Psychology/FAS)
Timothy Hopper, Human Evolutionary Biology, Saving what matters: An investigation of selective memory consolidation (advisor Robert Stickgold, HMS)
Cheng Li, Psychology, Effects of first and third person verbs on primary motor cortex activity: A TMS investigation (advisors Alfonso Caramazza, Psychology/FAS and Liuba Papeo, Psychology/FAS)
Eliza Nguyen, History and Science, A trauma that won’t heal? Representations of the Palestinian psyche 1947-2005 (advisor Joelle Abi-Rached, History of Science/FAS)
Julia Nguyen, Neurobiology, Characterization of the differences in food odor naïve preference and learning between C. elegans males and hermaphrodites (advisor Yun Zhang, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology/FAS)
Alexandra Pace, Human Evolutionary Biology, The effects of social cognition on neuroplasticity for high-risk schizophrenia (advisor Christine Hooker, Psychology/FAS)
Arielle Rabinowitz, Psychology, The impact of early life stress on emotional response in early adulthood (advisor Leah Somerville, Psychology/FAS)
Kendra Rosario, Neurobiology, Sleep spindle and theta frequency activity enhance performance on spatial and motor memory tasks (advisor Erin Wamsley, HMS)
Divya Seth, Neurobiology, Investigating the carboxypeptidase function of Alzheimer’s gamma secretase through substrate deletion mutants (advisor Michael Wolfe, HMS)
Anisha Shenai-Khatkhate, Neurobiology, Investigating effects of the behavioral inhibition temperament construct on stimulus-driven affective attention and attention-shifting in 7-month old infants: An ERP study (advisor Charles Nelson, HMS and GSE)
Marc Shi, Neurobiology, Phase-amplitude coupling as a biomarker for Autism Spectrum Disorder in infant EEG (advisor Charles Nelson, HMS and GSE)
Nina Sokolovic, Neurobiology, How does socioeconomic status affect children’s executive function? Examining motivation and cortical thickness as potential mediating factors (advisor Margaret Sheridan, HMS)
Alexander Stein, History and Science, The gatekeepers of extraordinary phenomena: Telepathy and The Society for Psychical Research (advisor Myrna Perez, History of Science/FAS)
Theresa Tharakan, Neurobiology, Deconstructing the moral mind: An fMRI investigation mapping the foundations of moral judgment (advisor Joshua Greene, Psychology/FAS)
Samuel Wallis, Neurobiology, Mapping a signal transduction pathway for olfactory preference in C. elegans (advisor Yun Zhang, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology/FAS)
Michelle Wang, Neurobiology, Hyper-aggression, long-term consequences of social defeat, and resilience in Drosophila Melanogaster (advisor Edward Kravitz, HMS)
Daniel Wilson, History and Science, Cartographies of the mind: Large-scale neuroscience projects in the United States 1990-2013 (advisor Sheila Jasanoff, KSG)
Warner Wood, Human Evolutionary Biology, Deciphering the molecular mechanisms controlling variation in primate elbow joint morphology and locomotive behavior (advisor Terence Capellini, Human Evolutionary Biology/FAS)
Rachel Zsido, Neurobiology, Contributions of estradiol and hormonal contraceptive use to sex differences during fear extinction recall (advisor Mohammed Milad, HMS)