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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:

  • An Investigation of the DREADD Mechanism Through c-fos Analysis
  • Does Cronotype Affect Visual Search?
  • Does Error Processing Relate to Negative Affect and Right Wing Authoritarianism?
  • Effects of Puberty Blocker and Hormone Replacement Therapy in a Male Rat Model
  • Evaluating Retrograde and Non-Retrograde Cre-GFP Label in Neurons That Project to the Nucleus Accumbens
  • Evaluating the Impact of IL-6 in Self-Perceived Health and OCD Symptoms in Adult Participants
  • Examining Hypothalamic Hormone Expression in Miro1 Knockout Mice
  • Influence of Reward on Holistic Strategy Use in Visuomotor Adaptation
  • Incoming Text From the ERN: You’ve Made a Mistake
  • Investigating the Neural Circuitry of Amphetamine Reinstatement in Rats
  • Investigating the Role of Miro1 in Hippocampal Morphology and Long-Term Spatial Memory
  • Lead Exposure Disrupts Developmental and Octopamine Signaling Pathways in Drosophila melanogaster Through Epigenetic Gene Silencing
  • Microglial Activation in Miro1 Knockout Mice and Its Role in Neurodegenerative Disease
  • Miro1 and Its Role in Fear Memory
  • Modeling Glioblastoma Angiogenesis in Drosophila melanogaster Larvae
  • Neural Correlates of Explicit Strategy Use in Visuomotor Rotation
  • The Impact of Estradiol on Psychological Disorders Among College Students
  • The Impact of Scaffolding on Learning Complex Tasks
  • The Role of Miro1 in Axon Pathways From the Cortex
  • The Role of Parental Support in the Relationship Between Sibling Disability and Brain Development
  • Uncovering the Role of the Dopamine System in Lead-Induced Hyperactivity in Drosophila melanogaster

Contact

Department Name

Neuroscience Program

Contact Name

Siobhan Robinson, Program Director

Office Location
198 College Hill Road
Clinton, NY 13323

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