Submissions from 2024
2024 Brain & Behavioral Health Poster, Faith Brandt
Accelerated Intermittent Theta Burst Stimulation Modulates Microglial Activation in the Thalamus: Preliminary Data, Karen Luo, Binh Nguyen, Sarah Ward, Tessa Olmstead, Hans Van der Horn, Christopher Abbott, Andrei Vakhtin, and Davin K. Quinn
Alpha Peaks and Learning Troughs: Examining Neural Networks of Attention in Children With and Without a Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (Theta), Donovan A. Roberts and Julia M. Stephen
Altered neuronal network connectivity in children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, Maryam H. Alsameen, L Flynn, C Cerros, M Williams, D E. Hill, and J M. Stephen
An Example of a Multidisciplinary Approach to the Expansion of Consciousness, April Vihilidal
A Review on the Diagnostic Utility of Artificial Intelligence in Psychology, Serena Smith and Eunice Kim
ASCL1 regulates astrocyte and oligodendrocyte cell fate, proliferation, and migration in the dorsal cortex, Luis E. Paez-Beltran, Bianca L. Myers, Milindu Liyanapathirana, Haojie Chen, Estrella Villicana, and Tou Yia Vue
Bacteriophage virus-like particle-based vaccines against opioids, Isabella G. Romano, Brandi Johnson-Weaver, Herman Staats, William Wetstel, Yumei Huang, Bruce Blough, Susan B. Core, Bryce Chackerian, and Kathryn M. Frietze
Cannabis Use and Psychotic-Like Experiences, Ethan Campbell and Jeremy Hogeveen
CircVopp1: A Potentially New Regulator of Long-Term Immune Dysfunction in the Peripheral and Central Nervous System Arising from Prenatal Alcohol Exposure, Ariana N. Pritha, Andrea A. Pasmay, Michaela Dell'Orco, Joshua J. Sanchez, Jacob E. Sanchez, Suzy Davies, Daniel D. Savage, Nikolaos Mellios, Erin D. Milligan, and Shahani Noor
CTSC Clinical and Translational Research Experience (CT-REx) Program, Regis Lacher and Annette Crisanti
Department of Family & Community Medicine Transdisciplinary Evaluation and Support Clinic (TEASC), Martin Gonzales, Toni Benton, John Phillips, Gail Thaler, Helene Silverblatt, May Goldenberg, Clark Hardgrave, Amber Seik, Pat Beery, Shelly Marek, Liz Donsbach, and Rae Romero
Dissecting the functional impairment of wild-type p53 in human glioblastoma, Leopoldo A. García-Montaño, Yamhilette Licon Munoz, Frank Martinez, Kandee Gallegos, Huining Kang, and Sara G.M Piccirillo
EEG Acquisition Methods During the First Year of Life: UNM Pilot of HEALthy Brain and Child Development Study (HBCD), Alexandria Wiesel, Lidia Enriquez Marquez, Lawrence Leeman, Ludmila N. Bakhireva, and James F. Cavanagh
Effects of dysbiosis and gut-derived hydrogen sulfide on cognitive performance, Kimberly Barnhart, Haley Prather, Stephanie Nitschke, Kayla Julio, Nicolas Shaff, Alexander Birg, Henry Lin, Sephira Ryman, and Andrei Vakhtin
Effects of Third Trimester Alcohol Exposure (TTAE) on oligodendrocyte development in the mouse brain, Estrella Villicana, Luis E. Paez-Beltran, Bianca L. Myers, C Fernando Valenzuela, and Tou Yia Vue
Elevation of miR-150-5p in Brain Microvascular Endothelial Cells as a result of Prenatal Alcohol Exposure is Mediated by Transcriptional Mechanisms, Marissa Westenskow, Christina Wong, and Amy S. Gardiner
Examining Substance Use and Mental Health Patterns Among Hispanic Adolescents: A Latent Class Analysis and its Associations with Risk and Protective Factors, Carolina Verdezoto, David Lardier, Pauline Garcia-Reed, and Robert J. Reid
Formative Stages of Administering a Comprehensive Neurodevelopmental Battery at UNM for a Large Multi-site National Study, Lidia Enriquez Marquez, Jillian Kotulski, Alexandria Wiesel, Lawrence Leeman, and Ludmila Bakhireva
Glun2A-NMDAR Mediated Increased Neuronal Prostaglandin E2 Release and Microglial Activation Exacerbates Ischemic Brain Injury Under Hyperhomocysteinemic, Sarah Seelig, Prabu Paramasivam, Surojit Paul, and Ranjana Poddar
Gut microbiome underpinnings of anxiety and depression in long COVID-19, Haley E. Prather, Kimberly Barnhart, Stephanie Nitschke, Kayla Julio, Nicholas Shaff, Aleksandr Birg, Henry C. Lin, Sephira G. Ryman, and Andrei A. Vakhtin
Identifying Barriers and Pathways to Care Among College Students with Early Psychosis, Natasha Dark, Annette S. Crisanti, Perla M. Romero, Justine L. Saavedra, Bess R. Friedman, Sam Barans, David Lardier, Juan Bustillo, Mauricio Tohen, Rhoshel Lenroot, and Dawn Halperin
Impact of moderate prenatal ethanol exposure on hilar interneuron subpopulations in the dorsal dentate gyrus of adult Long-Evans rat offspring, Suzy Davies, Chloe H. Puglisi, Jennifer L. Wagner, Jessie R. Maxwell, and Daniel D. Savage
Investigating Anticipation for Alcohol in Mice Elicited by Cues Predicting its Availability, Seth David, Dominic Furlano, Monserrat Orozco, and David N. Linsebardt
Is thrombus shell composition linked to stroke etiology?, Mehdi Abbasi, Sepideh Yadollahi, and Setareh Yadollahi
Little Brain, Big Rewards: A Meta-analysis of the Cerebellum and Reward Processing in Youth, Teagan S. Mullins, Lynette Abrams-Silva, and Jeremy Hogeveen
Longitudinal Trajectories of PTSD Severity and Associations with Risk and Protective Factors among Recently Resettled Refugees in the United States, David Lardier, Meredith A. Blackwell, and Jessica R. Goodkind
Long-term Potentiation Disruption Underlying Cognitive Impairment in Electroconvulsive Therapy, Danielle Farrar, Karen Luo, Jude Chavez, Bibh Nguyen, Kevin Wilson, Sarah Ward, and Christopher Abbott
Measurement Invariance of the Harm Reduction Self-Efficacy Scale (HRSES) among College Students, Joey C. Mok, Frank J. Schwebel, Matthew R. Pearson, and Addictions Research Team (ART)
Molecular mechanism regulating the fate and function of the Drosophila sleep-wake circuit, Ethan Cato Wilson and Mubarak Hussain Syed
Multidisciplinary clinical care at UNM for ultra-rare muscular dystrophy mimicking Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy type 1, Bret J. Gardner, Cynthia Olivas, and Meeta Cardon
Neuron Specific Gene family members NSG1 & NSG2 differentially affect long-term potentiation, learning and memory, Antonio D. Serrano Rodriguez, Amber Zimmerman, Sandy Wilson, David Linsebardt, Jonathan Brigman, and Jason Weick
NM START: Serving the needs of Individuals with Developmental Disabilities and Mental Health Needs, Tiffany L. Otero, Felicia Nevarez, Pat Osbourn, Michelle Lafont, Collin Massey, Cynthia King, Mohammad Murtuza, and Heather Krapf
Pediatric Postoperative Stroke Recognition, Thomas Ferrer, Juliet Velhagen R Valhagen, Tim Peterson, and Codruta Soneru
Peer Support Model to Address Substance Use Disorders Treatment Engagement in Rural Communities, Justine L. Saavedra, Lucia E. Martinez, Annette Crisanti, and STTEP Research Group
Photosensitivity in Dravet Syndrome: Quantifying Impact of Sunlight on Myoclonic Seizure Frequency, Sarah E. Otterson, Danny Rogers, and Aaron L. Cardon
Pilot-Testing a Vascular Risk Factor Reduction Intervention for Adults with Post Stroke Executive Dysfunction: CHAMPS, Suzanne Burns, Tim Dionne, Jude Chavez, Karen Lou, Binh T. Nguyen, Sarah K. Ward, Kevin Wilson, Davin Quinn, and Jessica Richardson
Prenatal Alcohol Exposure (PAE) and Mild Adolescent Stress Induce Vulnerability to Mild Adult Stress in Mice, Justine Zimmerly, Anette Fernandez-Oropeza, Melody S. Sun, Clara J. Tomicek, Erik J. Balmer, Noah A. Castro, Shahani Noor, Andrea A. Pasmay, Ariana N. Pritha, Carlos F. Valenzuela, Daniel D. Savage, and Erin D. Milligan
Processes and Mechanisms of Change in Mindfulness-Based Interventions for Substance Use Disorders: A Contextually Sensitive Systematic Review, David I.K Moniz-Lewis and Katie Witkiewitz
Project AWARE Third Year Successes: Improvements in Everyday Life, Social Connectedness, and Overall Mental Health, Haely Katt, Carolina Verdezoto, Abigail Thompson, Sondra Samaniego, Ariel Homer, Tyler Kincaid, Thomas Chavez, Cynthia Melugin, and David Lardier
Recognizing Strokes in the PACU in Adult Versus Pediatric Patients, Juliet Velhagen, Thomas Ferrer, Ricardo Falcon, Tim Petersen, and Codruta Soneru
Repeated Mild Traumatic Brain Injuries are Associated with Exacerbated Deficits in Behavior, Cerebral Blood Flow, and Pathology, Z Matthew Situ, Taha F. Abdeljawad, Natalie J. Pinkowski, Adrienne N. Swindle, Raycarlo Laboy-Ramirez, Carissa J. Mehos, Johann Pacheco, Brandi R. Hess, Devon Hatcher, Betty Fish, Andrew R. Mayer, and Russell A. Morton
Russians Fleeing Putin’s country: Trauma, Daily Stressors, Anxiety, Depression, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Maria McCready, David Witherington, Steven Verney, and Dmitry Boltyanskiy
Selectively targeting S1PR1 restores BBB integrity and attenuates SVD-related neuropathological progression in a rat model of chronic hypoxic hypoperfusion, Jeffrey Thompson, Yirong Yang, Kelsey Duval, Karen SantaCruz, Michael Griego, Haojie Chen, Haoran Deng, Carlos Perez, Sean Maez, Sasha Hobson, Theodore Li, Halima Akter, Michel Torbey, and Yi Yang
Single nucleus transcriptomics reveals cell type-specific heterogeneity on the effects of gestational ozone exposure within the brain, Sumira Phatak, Kathryn Brayer, Russell Hunter, David Scieszka, Andrea Pasmay, Selita Lucas, Jamie Padilla, Matthew Campen, and Shahani Noor
Sleep Disturbances Relate to Problematic Alcohol Use via Effortful Control and Negative Emotionality, Chloe E. Martinez, Christian C. Garcia, Matison W. McCool, Maria M. Wong, Matthew R. Pearson, and Protective Strategies Study Team
Sphingosine-1-phosphate receptor 1 agonist SEW2871 reduces BBB dysfunction and improves the cognitive impairment associated with cerebral small vessel disease, Bushra Shal, Michael Griego, Yirong Yang, Laurel Sillerud, Carlos Perez, Joanna McChriston, Haoran Deng, Haojie Chen, and Yi Yang
The critical role of CNTN1 in myelination of white matter tracts during brain development, Haojie Chen, Luis E. Paez-Beltran, and Tou Yia Vue
The effects of moderate prenatal alcohol exposure on performance in hippocampal-dependent spatial memory and anxiety tasks by adult male and female rats, Gabriela Acosta, Jack Madden, Ariyana LaCour, Suzy Davies, Jeremy Hogeveen, Daniel D. Savage, Nathan Pentkowski, and Benjamin Clark
The Impact of Maternal Alcohol Consumption Patterns on Behavioral Outcomes in Offspring, Abbey Rose Myrick, Diane Jimenez, Belkis Jaquez, C Fernando Valenzuela, and David N. Linsenbardt
The littlest thinkers, UPDATED! A neonatal cognitive development investigation using EEG, Kate L.C Cavanagh, Jessie Maxwell, Dawn Novak, and Aaron L. Cardon
The location of spreading depolarizations influence tissue outcomes in a transient MCAo model of stroke, Michael C. Bennett and C William Shuttleworth
The Phenomenology of Awe and Self-Transcendence in Psychedelic Virtual Reality, Jacob Spinks, Kailie Kentopp, Grace Petro, Mia Madrid, and David Witherington
Third Trimester Equivalent Prenatal Alcohol Exposure Leads to Impaired Contextual Conditioning Paralleled by Blunted Activity of the Anteroventral Thalamus, Mitchell Morningstar, David Linsenbardt, Katalina Lopez, and Fernando Valenzuela
Traumatic Brain Injury and Psychopathic Traits in Justice-involved Adult Males, Michaela M. Milillo, Tessa Cappelle, Gerard J.B Clarke, Craig S. Neumann, J Michael Maurer, Nathaniel Anderson, Carla L. Harenski, David Arciniegas, Jean Decety, Michael Koenigs, and Kent A. Kiehl
Submissions from 2023
A Bacteriophage Virus-Like Particle Vaccine Against Heroin Generates Protective Antibody Responses, Isabella G. Romano, Brandi Johnson-Weaver, Herman Staats, Bryce Chackerian, and Kathryn M. Frietze
Age-Specific Prognostic Hub Genes Associated With Immune Cell Infiltration in Glioblastoma Multiforme: An Analysis of TCGA Data, Syed Faraz Kazim, Devin W. Vidrine, Meic H. Schmidt, and Christian A. Bowers
Agonizing the 5-HT2c Receptor Attenuates Methamphetamine-Induced Conditioned Place Preference in Adolescent Male Rats, Nicole C. Reyna and Nathan S. Pentkowski
Alcohol Consumption During Early Adulthood in a Preclinical Mouse Model of Alzheimer’s Disease Leads to Gait Impairments, Dysregulated Circadian Rhythm, Alterations in Tauopathy and Brain-Region-Specific Transcriptional Alterations, N M. Maphis, D Furlano, S A. David, and D N. Linsebardt
Altered Neuronal Firing Following a Spreading Depolarization: an in vivo Study, Branki R. Hess, Natalie J. Pinkowski, Carissa J. Mehos, Betty Fish, and Russell A. Morton
Alzheimer’s Disease-Associated CircHomer1 can Inhibit the Expression of Long APP and MAPT mRNA Isoforms in the Frontal Cortex Via Competing for Binding to HuD, Madison Otero, Grigorios Papageorgiou, Sophie E. Eckel, Marissa R. Westenskow, Ibrahim El-Sharkawy, Niko Nykänen, Bruno A. Benitez, Carlos Cruchaga, and Nikolaos Mellios
An Alarming Interloper: A Case Report of Capgras Syndrome as Presentation of C9orf72-Associated Frontotemporal Dementia, Christine Meadows, Monika Manchanda, and Jonathan Cauchi
A Novel Methodological Approach of collecting MRI in newborns and infants without sedation in a multi-site consortium pilot study, Lidia Enriquez Marquez, Tracey Wick, Crystal Almeida, Alexandria Wiesel, Arvind Caprihan, Ludmila Bakhireva, and Andrew R. Mayer
A Novel Methodological Approach of Studying Heart Rate Variability during Still Face Paradigm in Infants of ENRICH Prospective Birth Cohort Study, R Rai, J DiDomenico, S M. Rodriguez, J Maxwell, J Lowe, C Aragón, L N. Bakhireva, and J M. Stephen
A Peptide Mimetic of Tyrosine Phosphatase STEP: A Potential Therapeutic Agent for Treatment of Stroke Under Hypertensive Condition, Seong Won Choi, Sathyanarayanan Rajagopal, Prabu Paramasivam, Ranjana Poddar, and Surojit Paul
Apoptosis-Associated Speck-Like Protein Containing a CARD (ASC) as a Potential Biomarker of Dementia in Cerebrospinal Fluid, Kathryn Sánchez, Shanya Jiang, Sasha Hobson, Jeff E. Thompson, Sharina P. Desai, Gary A. Rosenberg, and Kiran Bhaskar
ASCL1 Regulates Astrocyte and Oligodendrocyte Cell Fate, Proliferation, and Migration in the Dorsal Cortex, Luis E. Paez-Beltran, Milindu Lyanapathirana, and Tou Y. Vue
Association of Neurofascin155 With Severe, Rapidly Progressive Sensory Axonal Polyneuropathy in a Cohort of Native American Women: A Novel Case Series and Review of the Literature, Christine Meadows, Jonathan Cauchi, Clover Youn, Kayleigh Martin, Cynthia Olivas, and Ilhem Messaoudi
Center for Brain Recovery and Repair: Clinical Core, Rick Campbell, Michel Torbey, Kevin Wilson, Jude Chavez, Karen Luo, Sarah Ward, Marcus Sterling, Adam Littleton, Ethan Campbell, John Romero, Marcus Sterling, Darbi Gill, Davin Quinn, Jessica Richardson, and Jeremy Hogeveen
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is an Empirically Supported Treatment for Substance Use Disorder, Cassandra L. Boness, Victoria R. Votaw, Frank J. Schwebel, David IK Moniz-Lewis, Kathryn McHugh, and Katie Witkiewitz
Comparison of Novel Virus-Like Particle Vaccines Against Tau in a Mouse Model of Alzheimer’s Disease, Jonathan Hulse, Nicole Maphis, Julianne Peabody, Bryce Chackerian, and Kiran Bhaskar
Comparison of Right vs Left Accelerated Resting-State fMRI-Guided Theta Burst Stimulation to the DLPFC for Late-Life Depression: A Pilot Study, Jude Chavez, Karen Luo, Crystal Garcia, Christopher Abbott, and Davin Quinn
Comparison of Stereoelectroencephalography Versus Subdural Electrodes for Invasive Epilepsy Monitoring in Pediatric Patients: A Meta-aAalysis, Syed Faraz Kazim, Michael Kogan, James A. Botros, Ariana Barkley, and Heather Stevens Spader
Compensatory Functional Activation During Motion Discrimination in Parkinson’s Disease, Stetphanie Nitschke, Kayla Julio, Nicholas Shaff, Chris Wertz, David Stone, Andrei Vakhtin, Andrew Mayer, Elena K. Festa, William C. Heindel, David P. Salmon, Gerson Suarez Cedeno, Amandaa Deligtisch, Sarah Pirio Richardson, and Sephira Ryman
Continuous Cerebral Autoregulation Measurement and Outcomes in Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage, Masoom Desai, Ali Alsarah, Thomas Jones, Bert Davis, Chad Cole, and Andrew P. Carlson
Continuous Tissue Plasminogen Activator Infusion Using a Minimally Invasive Irrigating Catheter for the Treatment of Intraparenchymal Hemorrhage: Preclinical Model, Danika E. Nelson, Diego Carrera, Marc Mabray, and Andrew P. Carlson
Creating a Quality of Life for People with Brain Injuries, Ken Collins
Deficiency in interleukin-1 receptor accessory protein (IL-1RAP) alleviates tau pathology, Somayeh Dadras and Kiran Bhaskar
Depression Severity Relates to Lower Information Encoding in the RewP Following High Positive-Affect Feedback, Garima Singh, Trevor CJ Jackson, Mark Lavelle, Darin R. Brown, and James F. Cavanagh
Development of a Patient-Centered Outcome (PCO) Measure for Dystonia, Arlann Erskine, Paul Reyes, Fares Qeadan, Brian Berman, Sarah L. Schneider, Janet Hieshetter, Charlene Hudgins, Kimberly Kuman, Cynthia Comella, David Peterson, Mark Hallett, Gamze Kilic-Berkmen, Laura Wright, Samantha Pentecost, Joel S. Perlmutter, H A. Jinnah, and Sarah Pirio Richardson
Development of a Smartphone Application Able to Capture Patient-Centered Outcome (PCO) Measures for Dystonia, Paul Reyes, Arlann Erskine, Brian Berman, Sarah L. Schneider, Janet Hieshetter, Kimberly Kuman, Cynthia Cormella, David Peterson, Gamze Kilic-Berkmen, Laura Wright, Fares Qeadan, Samantha Pentecost, Joel S. Perlmutter, Sarah Pirio Richardson, and H A. Jinnah
Development of opioid vaccines using bacteriophage virus-like particles, Isabella G. Romano, Bryce Chackerian, Matthew Campen, and Kathryn M. Frietze
Differential Contributions of GluN2A- and GluN2B- containing NMDA Receptors to Tissue Recovery after SD, Jordan E. Weisend and C W. Shuttleworth
Dose-response Effect of Prenatal Alcohol Exposure on Perinatal Outcomes, Alexandria Wiesel, Xingya Ma, Jared DiDomenico, Fiona Wohler, Melissa Roberts, and Ludila Bakhireva
Effect of Prenatal Ethanol Exposure on Histamine H3 Receptor-Effector Coupling and Sigma-1 Receptor Modulation of Histamine H3 Receptor Function, D E. Nelson, S Davies, and D D. Savage
Effect of Recorded Maternal Voice on Quantitative EEG in the Preterm Newborn, Meghan Groghan, Aaron Cardon, Kate Cavanaugh, and Dawn Novak
Effects of Ethanol Exposure on Oligodendrocyte Development in the Brain, Estrella Villicana, Luis E. Paez-Beltran, Bianca L. Myers, Milindu Liyanapathirana, Fernando Valenzuela, and Tou Yia Vue
Emotional Faces and Working Memory in Children with High Autistic and Anxiety Traits, Teagan Mullins and Jeremy Hogeveen
Enrichment-Mediated Neurogenesis is Impaired in the ventral Hippocampus in a Mouse Model of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) and Potential Therapeutic Intervention, A M. Rodriguez, L Li, and L A. Cunningham
Examination of Self-Determination Theory-Based Motivations for Using Cannabis Responsibly and Cannabis Use Motives as Predictors of Cannabis-Related Outcomes among College Students, Ricardo A. Rubio, Jakub D. Gren, Joey C. Mok, Haydee Andujo, Dylan K. Richards, Matthew R. Pearson, and Addictions Research Team
Examining the Psychometric Properties of the Reward and Relief Inventory of Drinking Situations, Victoria R. Votaw, Rylee Brachle, Jenny Fillebrown, Matthew Lopez, Ethan Van, Isabel Weisberg, and Katie Witkiewitz
Guidance on Methadone for Opioid Use Disorder in Older Adults: Current Practices, M E. Dankoscik, S H. Patel, A Viszolay, E W. Green, C Smith, and V Jacobsohn
Health Literacy is Linked to Executive Functioning in Older American Indians, Alexis Burks, Anastacia Romero, Macaiah Shendo, and Steven P. Verney
Identifying Profiles of Cannabis Users Based on Their Motivations to Use Cannabis Responsibly: An Application of Self-Determination Theory, Joey C. Mok, Jakub D. Gren, Haydee Andujo, Ricardo A. Rubio, Dylan K. Richards, Matthew R. Pearson, and Addictions Research Team
Impact of Two Different Rodent Diets on Maternal Ethanol Consumption, Serum Ethanol Concentration and Pregnancy Outcome Measures, Suzy Davies, Danika E. Nelson, and Daniel D. Savage
Improving the Detection of Behavioral Health Conditions Through Positive and Unlabeled Learning: Self-Harm and Opioid use Disorder, Praveen Kumar, Jonathan K. Tsosie, and Christophe G. Lambert
Investigating Mechanisms of COVID-19 Neuropsychological Dysfunction, Jude Chavez, Kevin Wilson, Karen Luo, Sarah Ward, Marcus Sterling, Adam Littleton, Ethan Campbell, John Romero, Richard Campbell, Darbi Gill, Jeremy Hogeveen, Jessica Richardson, and David K. Quinn
Is There an Association Between Anxiety and Response Confidence?, Sofia Miranda, Garima Singh, Mark Levelle, and James F. Cavanagh
"It's all in your head": Abnormal Visual Processing During Magnetoencephalography is Associated with Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in US Veterans, David Quinn, Megan Schendel, Adam Littleton, Marcus Sterling, Joel Upston, Thomas Jones, Lindsay Worth, Kevin Wilson, Jude Chavez, Jessica Richardson, Chang Yaramothu, Tara Alvarez, Michael Hoffer, Stacey Harris-Carriman, Andrew Mayer, and Julia Stephen