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The Undergraduate Neuroscience Journal

Harnessing the Power of Sleep
Issue 19

Harnessing the Power of Sleep

Many college students discount the importance of sleep; whether it is to stay up cramming for a test, or to play a new game that was just released, students simply

  • Liza Panova
  • Allison Li
Liza Panova, Allison Li 13 Dec 2020 • 10 min read
Holy Molly: Treating PTSD with MDMA
Issue 19

Holy Molly: Treating PTSD with MDMA

Tenuous Times are a Great Time to Get “Rolling”Our ever-changing socio-political landscape creates many feelings of uneasiness, and individual experiences of war, terrorism, or sexual abuse only corroborate these

  • Ian Guan
  • Emma Cremeen
Ian Guan, Emma Cremeen 13 Dec 2020 • 14 min read
Decoding Neuroblastoma
Issue 19

Decoding Neuroblastoma

Late stage neuroblastoma is one of the most difficult childhood cancers to handle because of its poorly understood genetic markers, erratic tumor growth, and difficulty to remove.  The primary treatment

  • Dennis Godin
  • Stephanie Sherman
Dennis Godin, Stephanie Sherman 13 Dec 2020 • 7 min read
Getting a Grip on Dystonia
Issue 19

Getting a Grip on Dystonia

Hold out your hand, make a fist, and squeeze as hard as you can. If you squeeze long enough, you’ll experience some pain. This is a pain that individuals

  • Natalia Owen
  • Zeynep Toprakbasti
Natalia Owen, Zeynep Toprakbasti 13 Dec 2020 • 8 min read
To See or Not to See
Issue 19

To See or Not to See

The year was 1998 and a blind woman had done the seemingly impossible: she had managed to accurately post a letter in a constantly rotating mail slot. By all accounts,

  • Valerie Tsai
  • Kayrina Bui
Valerie Tsai, Kayrina Bui 13 Dec 2020 • 8 min read
Brain Cartography: How Mammals Memorize Spatial Maps
Issue 19

Brain Cartography: How Mammals Memorize Spatial Maps

IntroductionLet’s say someone asked you to memorize a random list of twenty animals. Your first thought, aside from “Why?”, would probably be, “How can I manage to memorize all

  • Jaydev Bhateja
    Jaydev Bhateja
  • Olivia D'Costa
Jaydev Bhateja, Olivia D'Costa 13 Dec 2020 • 8 min read
Mental Mechanics: How Humans Reason Through a Physical World
Issue 19

Mental Mechanics: How Humans Reason Through a Physical World

IntroductionPicture yourself sitting in a coffee shop. When the barista sets a drink down on the counter, you probably don’t expect the drink to fall through the counter’s

  • Carina Kill
  • Ohnshim Kim
Carina Kill, Ohnshim Kim 13 Dec 2020 • 13 min read
Jogging Your Memory: Exercise and Alzheimer's Disease
Issue 19

Jogging Your Memory: Exercise and Alzheimer's Disease

It can be difficult to fit exercise into busy schedules, especially for college students who always seem to have exams and deadlines approaching. However, exercise provides many neurological benefits, such

  • Pavithra Rao
  • Angelique Guina
Pavithra Rao, Angelique Guina 13 Dec 2020 • 8 min read
Stimulating Developments in Parkinson’s Treatment
Issue 18

Stimulating Developments in Parkinson’s Treatment

Imagine you’ve been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. The symptoms start as a small shake in one of your hands, which gradually spreads and worsens [1]. You attribute it

  • Valerie Tsai
  • Angelique Guina
Valerie Tsai, Angelique Guina 5 Apr 2020 • 8 min read
Cerebellum Models and Disease Treatments
Issue 18

Cerebellum Models and Disease Treatments

Introduction Look at a fixed point. Now turn your head left, then right. What do you notice? Well, as your head moves in one direction, your eyes move the same

  • Jaydev Bhateja
    Jaydev Bhateja
  • Ohnshim Kim
Jaydev Bhateja, Ohnshim Kim 3 Apr 2020 • 10 min read
T-cell’s Dangerous Roots: The Cost of Immunity
Issue 18

T-cell’s Dangerous Roots: The Cost of Immunity

Our immune system is perhaps one of the most important evolutionary benefits granted to us; our body’s ability to defend against infection and disease is one of the reasons

  • Arjun Sen
  • Stephanie Maack
Arjun Sen, Stephanie Maack 3 Apr 2020 • 9 min read
Livin’ the Dream
Issue 18

Livin’ the Dream

Introduction For most of us, dreaming is a normal and unremarkable facet of life. But, what if this didn’t have to be the case? What if instead of waking

  • Madeline Shonat
  • Meher Chand
Madeline Shonat, Meher Chand 3 Apr 2020 • 8 min read
Searching for the Self
Issue 18

Searching for the Self

For centuries, many have wrestled with what the “self” really is. As a species, we have come to the conclusion that a fundamental part of being human is having a

  • Stephanie Mizuno
  • Andrew Liu
Stephanie Mizuno, Andrew Liu 3 Apr 2020 • 10 min read
Take a Breath
Issue 18

Take a Breath

Imagine a square. Breathe in deeply for four seconds while ascending one side of the square. Hold your breath for four seconds across the top edge, then breathe out for

  • Carina Kill
Carina Kill 3 Apr 2020 • 9 min read
Misophonia: Symptom or Disorder?
Issue 18

Misophonia: Symptom or Disorder?

A coworker slurps chicken-noodle soup. A classmate refuses to stop coughing. A friend gulps down their coffee as if it were the last cup on earth. Many people find these

  • Natalia Owen
  • Olivia D'Costa
Natalia Owen, Olivia D'Costa 3 Apr 2020 • 10 min read
Great Minds Built Alike
Issue 18

Great Minds Built Alike

Giftedness. The term itself carries a sense of ambiguity, as the potential of human ability and the depth of biological, social, psychological, and physical effects of what we call “giftedness”

  • Haleigh Schwartz
  • Kat Ramus
Haleigh Schwartz, Kat Ramus 3 Apr 2020 • 12 min read
Locating Loneliness
Issue 18

Locating Loneliness

A lone person stands amid a bustling crowd of familiar faces. A glance around at the wide, inviting smiles on the faces of their family and friends should spark the

  • Jane Chea
  • Matthew Tyska
Jane Chea, Matthew Tyska 3 Apr 2020 • 9 min read
AIWS: Not Just an Illusion
Issue 18

AIWS: Not Just an Illusion

Introduction To some people, the world just doesn’t feel right. They may feel their bodies growing unnaturally large till they fill up the room. They sense that their bodies

  • Yutong Zhao
  • Grace Wang
Yutong Zhao, Grace Wang 3 Apr 2020 • 6 min read
Stay Woke: Caffeine and Parkinson’s
Neuroscience

Stay Woke: Caffeine and Parkinson’s

The adage “an apple a day keeps the doctor away” has possibly become a reality in the form of the most popularly consumed psychoactive drug, caffeine, in relation to Parkinson’

  • Daniel Chen
  • Manuela Rosenfeld
Daniel Chen, Manuela Rosenfeld 9 Mar 2020 • 7 min read
Melody and Memory: The Potential of Music Therapy for Patients with Alzheimer’s Disease
Neuroscience

Melody and Memory: The Potential of Music Therapy for Patients with Alzheimer’s Disease

Introduction As modern medicine advances, the average life expectancy has been increasing, leading to the discovery of a plethora of diseases in the newest generation of the longest-living humans. Among

  • Layla Jamil
  • Grace Wang
Layla Jamil, Grace Wang 8 Mar 2020 • 7 min read
The Radical Role of Nitric Oxide in Learning
Issue 17

The Radical Role of Nitric Oxide in Learning

It was the summer of 1799. World famous chemist Sir Humphry Davy switched on his mercurial breathing machine, filling two bags with pure nitric oxide gas   [1]   . He exhaled deeply

  • Anthony Abruzzini
  • Irika Sinha
Anthony Abruzzini, Irika Sinha 8 Mar 2020 • 13 min read
Weeding Out Misconceptions: Neurological Effects of Marijuana
Issue 17

Weeding Out Misconceptions: Neurological Effects of Marijuana

Due to marijuana’s supposed low addiction potential, a perceived lack of long-term irreversible side effects, and various social dynamics normalizing it after the War on Drugs changed to a

  • Sophia Anderson
  • Sarah Wells
Sophia Anderson, Sarah Wells 8 Mar 2020 • 7 min read
Masochism
Issue 17

Masochism

Sub-Saharan African tribes use scarification as a rite of passage for milestones such as transitioning into adulthood [1]. Along with scarification, many cultures around the world incorporate pain into deeply

  • Kathryn Stangret
  • Kat Ramus
Kathryn Stangret, Kat Ramus 3 Feb 2020 • 10 min read
Saturday Night Football, Losing More Than A Game
Issue 17

Saturday Night Football, Losing More Than A Game

Across the country, the lights are warming up for college game night. One freshman is getting his first starting spot as kick-returner. Looking over the crowded stadium, he sees his

  • Kiran Pradhan
  • Angelique Guina
Kiran Pradhan, Angelique Guina 3 Feb 2020 • 9 min read
A Gut Feeling
Issue 17

A Gut Feeling

Bacteria have a historically well-deserved bad rap. After all, they make us sick and spoil our food. Therefore, a natural reaction to hearing that around a hundred trillion bacteria inhabit

  • Valerie Tsai
  • Nina Chen
Valerie Tsai, Nina Chen 3 Feb 2020 • 9 min read
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