The Neuroscience Program provides a forum for faculty and students interested in the sub-disciplines within the field of neuroscience.
L-R: Justin Tiehen, Gary McCall, Siddharth Ramakrishnan, Jill Nealey-Moore, Martins Linauts, Catherine Hale, Jung Kim, Stacey Weiss
The following are useful links for students in the Neuroscience department that are interested in research, as well as those looking to learn more about the department.
Everyone should have the opportunity to learn and have access to knowledge. We learn many things at the University of Puget Sound through classes and research, and we should be happy to spread this wealth around. In that vein, we are beginning some outreach partnerships with local schools and communities. If you would like to be involved, please contact the Neuroscience Program at nrsc@pugetsound.edu.
The University of Puget Sound aims to create a culture of Neuroscience for students and the public. The W.M. Keck Foundation award sets the stage for TED-style talks, high school workshops, college classes, and new research.
To be eligible for a SURF Fellowship, you must be a continuing undergraduate student or have just completed your baccalaureate degree and have a cumulative GPA of at least 2.5 on a 4.0 scale. For more information on the Center for Structural and Functional Neuroscience (CSFN) Sponsored Summer Fellowship, please visit their webpage. Application materials must be received by CSFN no later than Friday, April 2nd for the summer of 2021.
Chelsea Clark ’13, recent neuroscience program graduate, was interested in factors influencing migraine headache pain. Dr. Roger Allen, from the Physical Therapy Program, has been studying how psychophysiological pathways of the stress response modulate latent changes in neuropathic pain intensity. They combined their interests for Chelsea’s neuroscience internship and investigated the temporal relationship between daily stress and delayed modulation of chronic headache pain. They discovered that delayed stress modulation can influence chronic headache pain in two distinctly different ways. Their findings were recently accepted and presented at the World Congress of Neurology in Vienna, Austria. Additionally, the study will be presented in the United States at the American Physical Therapy Association’s Combined Sections Meeting in Las Vegas in February 2014. Chelsea was Dr. Allen’s second neuroscience intern to have her study presented at an international conference. In 2011, Ali Heartman’s work on the relationship between body awareness and treatment response to therapeutic relaxation was presented at the World Physical Therapy Congress in Amsterdam, where it was one of only three studies from the United States to win an award for research excellence.
