Neuroscience
The goal of the Neuroscience Program is, through interdisciplinary approaches, to facilitate students' understanding of the nervous system and development of rigorous scientific research, analysis, and communication skills.
The Senior Program
As seniors, neuroscience majors carry out a research project that culminates in a thesis and an oral presentation. Working closely with a faculty advisor, each student uses the senior project to synthesize and focus previous coursework. The senior project is an original work of scholarship that provides an in-depth examination of a particular empirical or theoretical issue.
In the Senior Fellowship Program, as many as seven Hamilton students undertake a major research project under the supervision of two or more faculty members. Recent senior fellows in neuroscience have studied octopamine and single neurons.
Recent projects in neuroscience include:
- Chemogenetic Inactivation of the Cortico-Accumbens Pathway Impairs Social Recognition in Rats
- MoxDl/TBHR a Protein in Search of a Function - The Role of Cell Death
- The Impact of Varying Levels of Fantastical Elements on Children’s Word Learning from Storybooks
- Activation of Neurons that Project from the Amygdala to the Prefrontal Cortex does not Impair Social Recognition Memory in Rats
- The Social Strain Model as a Proposed Reinforcement Pathway of Social Isolation
- The Role of Executive Functions for Cue Integration Across Time in a Complex Task
- PANDAS: The Missing Microglial Link
- The Role of Parasympathetic Activation in Affective Perception: An Attentional Mechanism
- The Role of Sensory Stimuli in the Development of Infant Social Cognition
- Causal Inference for Spatial Localization
- Oligodendrocyte Transcription Factor 2 as a Potential Target for Treatment of Multiple Sclerosis
- Cortisol Reactivity to Loneliness in Older Adults
- Stress and Embodied Emotion: Dysregulation of Allostatic and Predictive Axes
- Exploring Delta Opioid Receptors as a Novel Preconditioning Mechanism for Neuronal lschemic Injury
- The Connection between the Hippocampus and the Amygdala does not Regulate Social Recognition in Rats
- MoxDl/TBHR a Protein in Search of a Function - The Role of Glycosylation
- Familial Alzheimer’s Disease Mouse Models as a Tool for Studying Potential Targets for the Treatment of Alzheimer's Disease
- The Effects of Lead Exposure on Visual System Development
- The Interplay Between Strategic & Feedback-Based Motor Learning in 6- to 7-Year-Old Children
- Evaluation of the Role of Anti-Inflammatory Cytokine Treatment of Psoriasis on Chronic Stress and Depression
- MoxDl/TBHR: A Protein in Search of a Function - The Role of ER stress
- Synaptic dysfunction in Fragile X Syndrome Due to Loss of Fragile X Mental Retardation Protein in Astrocytes
- The Exploration-Exploitation Dilemma: The Value of Information
- How Your Gut Controls You: Probiotics and the Behavioral Immune System
Contact
Department Name
Neuroscience Program
Contact Name
Siobhan Robinson, Program Director
Clinton, NY 13323