Honors Thesis Projects of the Graduating Class of 2025
| Isabella An |
| A Neuroimaging Approach: Cortical Structure and Selective Eating in Autism |
| Benjamin Yerys, Department of Psychiatry, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia |
| Michelle An |
| Orexin Receptor Signaling in the Paraventricular Thalamus. |
| Julie Blendy, Department of Pharmacology, Perelman School of Medicine |
| Alex Bui |
| Investigating the Predictive Utility of Positive Affect in Early Childhood. |
| Rebecca Waller, Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania |
| Richard Chen |
| Investigating the Tau Fibrillization in Human Tau Seeded RT-RuiC System |
| Hong Xu, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine |
| Melody Cheng |
| Disynaptic Feed-Forward Inhibition in a Novel Mouse Model of KCNC1 Epilepsy. |
| Ethan Goldberg, Department of Neurology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia |
| Makayla Clark |
| Neural and Social Effects of a Community-Service Psychology Course. |
| Loretta Flanagan-Cato, Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania |
| Savanna Cohen |
| Modeling Withdrawal States in Opioid-Dependent Mice With Machine Learning. |
| Gregory Corder, Department of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine |
| Daniel Dai |
| Towards a Better Understanding of Granulovacuolar Degeneration in Alzheimer’s Disease And Related Tauopathies |
| Virginia Lee, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine |
| Caroline Dannacher |
| Effects of Prenatal Hypoxia on Neuronal Migration |
| Ana Cristancho, Department of Neurology and Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia |
| Liam Gavin Dell |
| Proposing a Songbird Neural Courtship System. |
| Marc Schmidt, Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania |
| Om Gandhi |
| Perturbing MYCN-Polyamine Pathways to Promote Neuroblastoma Immunotherapy |
| Michael Hogarty, Division of Oncology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia |
| Alexander Gerlach |
| Mitochondrial Turnover in Retinal Neurodegeneration and SIRT1-based Therapy. |
| Kenneth Shindler, Depatment of Ophthalmology, Perelman School of Medicine |
| Jaskeerat Gujral |
| Investigating Gender Disparities in Patients Undergoing Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson’s disease: A Single Center Study |
| Iahn Cajigas, Departments of Neurosurgery and Bioengineering, Perelman School of Medicine |
| Stephanie Hanchak |
| The Relationship Between Anxiety and Social Functioning in Autistic Adults. |
| Edward Brodkin, Department of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine |
| Chloe Hassman |
| Role of Engram Activation in Remote Memory Deficits in Alzheimer's Disease. |
| Frances Jensen, Department of Neurology, Perelman School of Medicine |
| David Kedeme |
| Neural Substrates of Antidepressive Effects of Intranasal Ketamine in Mice. |
| Minghong Ma, Department of Neuroscience, Perelman School of Medicine |
| Hayle Kim |
| Identifying the Molecular Basis of Sleep Maturation. |
| Matthew Kayser, Department of Psychiatry, Pereleman School of Medicine |
| Miranda Meng |
| Homeostatic Regulation of REM sleep |
| Franz Weber, Department of Neuroscience, Perelman School of Medicine |
| Eric Muthersbaugh |
| Biofrabication of an Innervated Cardiac Patch for Post Myocardial Infarction Repair. |
| Kacy Cullen, Department of Neurosurgery, Perelman School of Medicine |
| Shivek Narang |
| Remote Network Effects of post-traumatic lesions and epilepsy risk |
| Ramon Diaz-Arrastia, Department of Neurology, Perelman School of Medicine |
| Gioia Nash |
| Impact of Bmal1 Deletion in Pdgfra+Cells on Central Circadian Rhythmicity. |
| Shaon Sengupta, Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia |
| Emily Ng |
| Impact of Chronic Stress on Acute Stress via Hippocampal Gene Dysregulation. |
| Elizabeth Heller, Department of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics, Perelman School of Medicine |
| Julu Nwaezeapu |
| Modeling Non-24 Sleep Dynamics in Julia Programming Language |
| Ron Anafi, Department of Medicine, Division of Sleep Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine |
| Peace Oloko |
| Investigating mechanisms of HSP27 phosphorylation following lysosomal damage. |
| Erika Holzbaur, Department of Physiology, Perelman School of Medicine |
| Brielle Pennente-Fantauzzi |
| Effects of Ketone Supplements on Alcohol Withdrawal and Brain Metabolism |
| Corinde Wiers, Department of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine |
| Vidhur Polam |
| Understanding how bone marrow transplant ameliorates Krabbe disease |
| Frederick Bennett, Department of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine |
| Austin Pothikamjorn |
| Unraveling Interpeduncular GLP-1Rs' Role in Dopamine and Opioid Abstinence. |
| Heath Schmidt, Department of Biobehavioral Health Sciences and Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania Schools of Nursing and Medicine |
| Bianca Rodriguez |
| Endothelial Cell Dysregulation Following Acute Prenatal Hypoxic Exposure. |
| Ana Cristancho, Department of Neurology and Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia |
| Nitin Seshadri |
| Comparing TBI Effect on Horizontal vs Vertical RDK in Visual Discrimination |
| Han-Chiao Chen, Department of Neurosurgery, Perelman School of Medicine |
| Alisha Shetty |
| Effect of Light Disruption on Circadian Pacemaker in IAV-infected Host |
| Shaon Sengupta, Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia |
| Susan Shin |
| Tracking head movement during brain injury. |
| Kathryn Wofford, Department of Neurosurgery, Perelman School of Medicine |
| Ashil Srivastava |
| Modulating Working Memory with Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation |
| Roy Hamilton, Depatment of Neurology, Perelman School of Medicine |
| Amelia Stoesser |
| Pathology of Psychosis in Relation to Mitochondrial Biogenesis |
| Stewart Anderson, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia |
| Erin Sullivan |
| Determining Hippocampal Dependency of a Complex Radial Arm Maze Task in Rats. |
| John Wolf, Department of Neurosurgery, Perelman School of Medicine |
| Syraj Uddin |
| Examining Neural-Gut Pathways Modulating Sugar Preference Post Exercise |
| Nicholas Betley, Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania |
| Evangelia Vitsaxaki |
| FMRP Loss Drives Intestinal Barrier Dysfunction in Drosophila Melanogaster |
| Thomas Jongens, Department of Genetics, Perelman School of Medicine |
| Elise Wallen-Friedman |
| Hippocampal-dependent Deficits in a Mouse Model of Dravet Syndrome. |
| Amelia Eisch, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia |
| Clara Xi Wang |
| Dysregulation of the inhibitory-serotonergic pathway in a model of Dravet Syndrome. |
| Ethan Goldberg, Department of Neurology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia |
| Derek Wong |
| Using Music Therapy to Treat Sleep Deficits in Mild Traumatic Brain Injury |
| Akiva Cohen, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Perelman School of Medicine |
| Allison Xiao |
| Sex Differences in GLP-1 signaling in the NTS in rats |
| Matthew Hayes, Department of Psychiatry, Perelman School of Medicine |
| Xandro Xu |
| Examining Eco-Anxiety from a Cognitive-Neurological Lens. |
| Jennifer Pinto-Martin, Department of Biobehavioral Health Sciences and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania Schools of Nursing and Medicine |
| John Yeakley |
| Investigating the Structure and Function of the Exercise-Reward Pathway. |
| Nicholas Betley, Department of Biology, University of Pennsylvania |
| Emily Zhang |
| Predicting ICP and Brain Hypoxia After Severe Pediatric TBI through EEG |
| Shih-Shan Chen, Department of Neurosurgery, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia |
| Nathan Zhang |
| Investigating Auditory Striatum in Behaviorally Relevant Sensory Filtering |
| Mark Fuccillo, Department of Neuroscience, Perelman School of Medicine |