Browsing 17th Denman Undergraduate Research Forum (2012) by Title

Antipsychotic Drug Impact on Dopaminergic Neurons

Klausing, Alex ( 2012-05-09 )

Antipsychotics are used to treat people diagnosed with schizophrenia by blocking dopamine receptors, specifically the D2 subtype. These drugs all increase dopamine in the extracellular to a similar extent by increasing ...

Asynchronous Stimulation for Cochlear Implants

Zajdel, Tom ( 2012-05-09 )

This work contributes the first psychoacoustic tests of Asynchronous Interleaved Sampling (AIS) performed with commercially available implants. AIS was originally proposed as an alternative to Continuous Interleaved Sampling ...

Early Developmental Ethanol Exposure Disrupts Hippocampal-Dependent Learning via Deregulated NMDA Receptor Function in a Rodent Model of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

Coppola, Jennifer ( 2012-05-09 )

Consuming alcohol during pregnancy may lead to a range of lifelong disorders in the resulting offspring known as fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD). The physical and mental impairments are dependent on the developmental ...

Investigating Long-Term Diet and Marine Resource Use in Kohala, Hawaiʻi

Lipphardt, Jacqueline ( 2012-05-09 )

Marine animals, including fish, mollusk, octopus and squid, were key components of the Hawaiian diet in prehistory. The goal of my research project is to examine long-term prehistoric gathering strategies and to determine ...

A Sociophonetic Study of the French [R]: Socioeconomic Factors Reflected in Linguistic Variation

Little, Sarah ( 2012-05-09 )

/R/ sounds display much variation in many of the world’s languages, being vulnerable to changes in their pronunciation. This unstable type of sound is found in French. Many linguists have studied the /R/ sound variation ...