PhD Student, Cognitive Behavioral Neuroscience
Being raised as one of Jehovah's Witnesses produced nightmares even as a child. There is one nightmare I remember having quite vividly. I had it when I was still a preteen. Let me explain the dream. So in the dream, I woke up After Armageddon had occurred. I was my house but I was alone. …
So way back in late November, I learned about the Honors program at school. In the Honors program, you conduct original research and present at a conference. I'm told this is good experience and that it will help me get into a graduate program. So I said sign me up. Turns out this is the …
I received an email from the International Cultic Studies Association (ICSA) that talked about how it can be difficult for former members of controlling religions to make friends. It explained that when your in such a group the other members are automatically your friends and you don't have to work on relationships. This made me …
I'M ONLY TAKING NUTRITION AND HONORS RESEARCH THIS SEMESTER SO I WANT TO MAKE SURE I MAKE USE OF MY EXTRA AVAILABLE TIME.  I'M GOING TO DO THIS BY WORKING ON THIS BLOG AND BY WORKING ON FITNESS.  TODAY I WENT TO EXPLORE THE GYM AT MY SCHOOL. I'm only taking nutrition and honors research …
One thing I experience periodically is seemingly unfounded feelings of shame and/or embarrassment. Now I'm not sure if these are even the right words to use. I'm pretty sure it comes from my growing up in a Fundamentalist religion. I want to explore this a bit here today. To better get a grasp on what …
For this project I had to develop and teach a lesson plan suitable for a 1st grade Life science class. I chose parental behaviors as my topic. Subject Area: Life Sciences Grade: 1 Estimated Time: 10 minutes Date: 11/27/18 Lesson Type Title/Topic: Animals and their offspring Brief overview of Lesson- including vocabulary and possible learner …
Short class presentation that covered the difference between Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia as well as the features, diagnosis, and treatment of Alzheimer's Disease. The full powerpoint presentation can be downloaded at the link below. Alzheimer’s Disease presentationDownload
Abstract one: Do Acceptance and Mindfulness Moderate the Relationship Between Maladaptive Beliefs and Posttraumatic Distress? “Objective: Maladaptive pre- and posttraumatic beliefs are reliable predictors of distress in the wake of trauma. Acceptance and mindfulness skills may be associated with less distress in the presence of these beliefs, but few studies have explored these relationships. This …
Recently in a class I was asked, “What is the biggest problem that the world today has?” My answer is was Education. Education is so important. Some of our defining abilities as humans are our ability to Speak, read and write. These enable us to learn from others past and present. What an amazing potential …
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Researchers discuss that an important element of Helplessness is its “transituationality”. Meaning that Helplessness conditioned in one environment is generalizable to other situations. Researchers wanted to separate helplessness from conditioned fear by testing for transituationality. They first conditioned mice with tail shocks to induce helplessness. Then after two days of shock conditioning the mice …
This article consists of reflection on 3 different author's works that discuss teaching and learning in elementary school. 1. Reflection: Teaching Outside the Lines I can relate to Stinson’s childhood experience in school. Although for perhaps more complicated and involved reasons I was shy and afraid to leave my house. At school I was bullied …
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Researchers examined the effects of neonatal handling on learned helplessness (LH) in rats. They discuss prior research that showed a variety of benefits associated with neonatal handling such as improved escape latency and lower emotional reactivity. They express that rats who have been handled have a permanent augmentation of the glucocorticoid receptors in their hippocampi. …
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