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2021 Pilot Projects

Predicting the Emotional Impact of a Pandemic from Brain Activation Elicited in Recollecting Experiences

Principal Investigator:

Objectives:

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To establish how EWB is reflected by pandemic-to-vaccination-era changes in fMRI and experiential attribute representations of recollected events.

Andrew Anderson, PhD University of Rochester

Influence of Emotional Well-being on Alzheimer’s Disease in Animal Models

Principal Investigators:

Objectives:

To examine how fronto-insular circuits are susceptible to pathological changes in AD mouse models and whether chronic stress induces negative emotional states that precipitate AD pathology and cognitive decline.

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Kuan Hong Wang, PhD
University of Rochester

Yi Zuo, PhD
UC Santa Cruz

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