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Neuroscience Mentorships

1-on-1 learning and original research projects customized around students’ interests

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Neuroscience involves the study of the brain and nervous system, providing interested students with the tools to explore multifaceted aspects of the workings of the brain.  Through a neuroscience mentorship, students will gain skills necessary to understand sensory, motor, and cognitive processes, and how they are affected by various experiences.  Neuroscience projects have involved writing research papers and conducting literature reviews in areas related to how various factors interact with the human brain.

Neuroscience

projects

A literature review documenting qualitative and quantitative perspectives on the impact of dance on mind/body and a website that shared findings on how perseverance and grit/discipline affect both dancers and people with diseases.

Academic review paper of the science behind chronic traumatic encephalopathy, which covered the history of the disease, animal models in CTE testing, modern CTE pathology, diagnosis and treatment