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Anxiety Sensitivity in Adults with Body Focused Repetitive Behaviors
(2015-10-02)
Body focused repetitive behaviors (BFRBs) such as hair pulling, skin picking, and nail biting
affect almost 4% of the general population (Rasmussen & Eisen, 1992), but the factors that
predispose individuals to these ...
Contribution of the Bed Nucleus of the Stria Terminalis to Temporally Uncertain Threat
(2018-05-03)
Anxiety disorders are some of the most common and debilitating forms of mental illnesses in our society. Understanding the behavioral and brain mechanisms of anxiety is essential in the development of novel therapeutic ...
The Cost of Adolescence: Mental Health, Gender Performance, and the Heterosexual Marketplace in Contemporary Young Adult Fiction
(2020-04-20)
This paper looks at the portrayal of mental health in protagonists within selected contemporary fiction young adult novels. In these selected texts, the protagonists are all dealing with mental health in various ways that ...
Wind and Film: Representations of Wind Energy in the On-Screen Anthropocene
Drawing on scholarship in energy humanities, this project uncovers the significance behind film portrayals of wind energy as a way of expanding knowledge of our relationship to alternative energy and its viability through ...
The Role of the Ventral Hippocampus on Contextual Learning and Avoidance Behavior: Implications for PTSD
A hallmark coping mechanism of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is avoidance, which is a behavior that decreases the likelihood of encountering a perceived threatening stimulus. Seventy-five Sprague Dawley rats were ...
Behavioral Factors Governing the Extinction of Ambiguous Threat Cues
(2019-04-22)
The purpose of this experiment was to examine the cognitive mechanisms by which an animal uses associations to learn about temporally ambiguous aversive events. Traditionally, associative learning using forwards conditioning, ...
Look Beyond the Veil: Coping with Anxiety and Trauma
My project is a 2D animated short film following the journey of a cherry blossom petal named Petal. She desperately wants to be a part of the forest goddess’s flower veil, just like all the other petals. It is the greatest ...