Browsing Theses and Dissertations(library) by Author "Fuchs, Perry N."
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An Animal Model Of Conditioned Placebo Analgesia
McNabb, Christopher T. (Psychology, 2014-03-10)Research on placebo analgesia (PA) has called for the further elucidation of underlying neural mechanisms. Animal models allow for experimental manipulations that are not possible or feasible in human research such as ... -
Assessing the Impact of Pain on Decision-making in a Rat Gambling Task (RGT)
Salcido, Celina Antionette; 0000-0003-2208-6047 (2017-07-31)Recent clinical assessments using the Iowa Gambling Task have revealed pain can negatively affect decision-making processes, leading to risky or poor decisions. Despite the gain these models have made in further elucidating ... -
Chemotherapy Related Cognitive Impairment In The Rat
Boyette Davis, Jessica (Psychology, 2008-04-22)Treatment for cancer has been indicated to negatively impact the quality of life for patients. Specifically, chemotherapy has been associated with fatigue, nausea, and peripheral neuropathy. More recently, chemotherapy has ... -
ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS ASSESSING THE ANALGESIC NATURE OF THE LATERAL HABENULA (LHb)
Parchure, Akshay Sunil (2019-07-19)Local field potential (LFP) is a collective neural signal of all the synaptic activity occurring at a specific area of the brain, thereby offering a unique insight into how the brain functions. The habenula is involved in ... -
Evaluating the Impact of Age and Time on Sensory and Affective Levels of Pain Processing
Geltmeier, Maxine Kaylen; 0000-0001-8171-3595 (2018-11-30)The relationship between pain and age has been studied for decades. However, research has produced conflicting results for pain thresholds and pain affect in clinical assessments. Likewise, pre-clinical research is conflicting ... -
Examining The Effects Of Early Life Stress From Maternal Separation On Measures Of Pain And Anxiety
Uhelski, Megan Lynne (Psychology, 2009-09-16)Animal models of stress-induced conditions have provided important insight into the physiological mechanisms of many chronic disorders. Models of early life stress involve procedures designed to induce prenatal or postnatal ... -
Examining The Impact Of Opioid Withdrawal On Pain Processing: The Influence Of Social Isolation Stress
Uhelski, Megan Lynne (Psychology, 2011-07-14)The use of opioids as a traditional treatment for acute and chronic pain has been severely hindered by the addictive nature of these substances and the pain relief they provide. Clinical reports suggest that opioid addicts ... -
Insensitivity To Pain In Schizophrenia: An Examination Of Sensory And Affective Pain Processing In An Animal Model
Boyette Davis, Jessica (Psychology, 2009-09-16)Patients with schizophrenia have been shown to display decreased sensitivity to pain, which can severely compound the impact of injuries and illnesses. Currently, the reasons for pain insensitivity in this population are ... -
Investigating Intra-Island Translocation as a Conservation Strategy for the Turks and Caicos Iguana: The Impact of Homing and Stress
Wagener, Tarren Kay; 0000-0002-4203-8264 (2016-12-15)The Turks and Caicos iguana, Cyclura carinata, is listed as critically endangered by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature due to introduced mammals and habitat alteration from human development. Inter-island ... -
A Novel Method Utilizing Approach-avoidance To Assess The Aversive Nature Of Pain
Harris Bozer, Amber Lee Ann (Psychology, 2013-07-22)Pain is a multidimensional experience that involves sensory, emotional/affective, and evaluative components, yet preclinical pain research has mainly focused on testing the sensory dimension. Those suffering from pain may ... -
The Role Of Cingulate Cortex In Spatial Learning And Pain Processing
Weaver, Rebecca (Psychology, 2007-08-23)Research implicates the Anterior Cingulate Cortex (ACC) mediates the affective component of pain processing but not spatial learning. The Posterior Cingulate Cortex (PCC) mediates spatial learning but not pain processes. ... -
The Role Of The Infralimbic Cortex In A Pain Intensity-graded Rodent Model Of Distraction Analgesia
McNabb, Christopher T. (Psychology, 2014-09-17)The misdirection of attention has been used to reduce experimental and clinical pain- a technique known as distraction analgesia (DA). A growing understanding of the important interrelationship between cognition and pain ... -
The Hierarchical Aversiveness of Two Simultaneous Pains within an Operant Approach Avoidance Paradigm
Salcido, Celina Antionette (2019-08-06)Pain is a subjective, private, yet universal phenomenon that depends on a unique combination of sensory, affective, and evaluative characteristics. Although preclinical models have been used to understand much of pain ... -
The Role Of The Lateral Habenula In The Affective Dimension Of Pain
White, Michelle Marie (Psychology, 2015)The lateral habenula (LHb) functions as a hub that integrates information from cortical regions to aid in emotional decision-making, as well as helping to create response strategies under stress (Hikosaka, 2010; Proulx, ... -
The Roles of Remote Positive Contact and Reciprocal Intimate Self-Disclosure in Reducing Intergroup Distinctiveness Motives
Stephens, Jessica J; 0000-0003-1345-6405 (2020-09-08)This study investigated intergroup distinctiveness motives (IDM) as a function of experimental manipulations of remote positive contact and reciprocal intimate self-disclosure (RISD). Using a confederate posing as an ...