Department of Neuroscience: Recent submissions
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A Translational Investigation of Discoidin Domain Receptor 1 Inhibition as a Novel Therapeutics Strategy in Neurodegenerative Disease
(Georgetown University, 2021)Neurodegenerative diseases (ND) are gaining recognition as imminent health crises. The greatest unmet need in neurodegeneration is a disease modifying therapy, but the failures of drug development have not been for a lack ... -
The Learning and Persistence of Aesthetic Values
(Georgetown University, 2021)Our aesthetic preferences are an integral part of our identity, they define us both as individuals and as members of our cultures. Yet very little is known about how they develop or persist over our lifetimes. Philosophical ... -
Organochlorines and Brain Homeostasis: Polychlorinated Biphenyls as Astrocytic Stressors
(Georgetown University, 2021)Exposure to environmental toxicants is prevalent, hazardous and linked to varied detrimental health outcomes and disease. Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), a class of hazardous organochlorines once widely used for industrial ... -
Multimodal Evidence for Neurocognitive Alterations in Pediatric Obesity
(Georgetown University, 2021)Pediatric obesity is increasing in prevalence and severity in the United States, with one in five adolescents meeting criteria for overweight (body mass index; BMI for age and sex >85th percentile) and one in three meeting ... -
Mapping the Neurocognitive Architecture of Reading
(Georgetown University, 2021)Reading relies on at least partially dissociable sub-word (sublexical) and word-specific (lexical) processes, which are subserved by somewhat separable neural substrates. Beyond this broad dissociation between sublexical ...
