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Old, Similar, or New: Hippocampal-Dependent Pattern Separation Performance in Fibromyalgia
Full text linkIn addition to chronic musculoskeletal pain, people with fibromyalgia often have memory deficits. Pattern separation is a neurological process that may be related to the memory deficits observed in people with fibromyalgia. Greater hippocampal activation has been associated with pattern separation deficits outside of fibromyalgia and has been observed in people with fibromyalgia; however, the relationship between hippocampal activation and pattern separation deficits in people with fibromyalgia is still unclear. This study thus aimed to examine the relationship between hippocampal activation and pattern separation in fibromyalgia. We hypothesized that participants with fibromyalgia would have worse pattern separation performance and greater hippocampal activation compared to healthy controls and that greater hippocampal activation would be correlated with worse pattern separation performance in participants with fibromyalgia. Sixteen participants (5 with fibromyalgia and 11 healthy controls) completed the Mnemonic Similarity Task during functional magnetic resonance imaging scanning and were included in the final analyses. We observed that participants with fibromyalgia had worse pattern separation performance and greater hippocampal activation compared to healthy controls. Further, worse pattern separation performance was correlated with greater hippocampal activation in participants with fibromyalgia. While these findings are preliminary, they suggest that people with fibromyalgia still show pattern separation deficits even when the hippocampus is working harder
Sidewindings
Full text linkA memoir cataloguing the impacts of my late-onset Type 1 diabetes diagnosis at the age of 26, in which I attempt to realize the ways in which my sense of self, and sense of the world around me, has been altered or disfigured by this hardly-visible disease
Navigating a Neurotypical World: The Relationship Between Perceptions of Visible vs Non-Visible Disabilities and Sense of Belonging on a College Campus
Full text linkDisability is defined through social, historical, and functional perspectives, making the disability movement unique in its overall fight for increased acknowledgement, education, and rights (Robinson & Judge, 2017). Distinguishing the differences between visible and non-visible disabilities is important to provide a general understanding of the unique barriers and challenges that people with disabilities face on a daily basis. Both people with visible and non-visible disabilities encounter stigmas and discrimination that impact their employment or education, as well as misconceptions about their capabilities. This study utilized a diverse sample of undergraduate students recruited through the Prolific survey platform to ensure broad representation of demographic categories. This study examined the relationship between self-perceptions of visible versus non-visible disabilities (Perry & Francis, 2017) and self-perceived sense of belongingness on a college campus. Using the GAD-7 to measure anxiety, the PROMIS scale for depression, the ATRA for attitudes towards accessibility accommodations, and the UES for belongingness, the study assessed various predictors influencing college students’ experiences. Findings revealed that anxiety and attitudes towards accommodations were the most significant predictors of belonging. While disability visibility did not significantly impact sense of belonging, individuals with diagnosed disabilities reported significantly higher anxiety and depression scores. Negative attitudes toward requesting accommodations were strongly associated with decreased feelings of university belongingness. This study emphasizes the importance for universities to increase mental health and disability accommodations in an inclusive manner
Is the Price of Organic Foods Worth the Potential Benefits to Your Health?
Full text linkWhat foods are healthier for you? This study will determine this based on where the food comes from, including the meat, dairy, and farming industries and how they treat animals and plants, and the nutrients these foods contain. From these findings, this study will choose foods for an average American’s three meals in a day for a organic and non-organic option. Then, it will compare the prices of a typical day’s worth of food and determine whether the price is worth the quality of food you are consuming
Career Aspirations and Gender Norms: How Socialization Influences Women’s Professional Choices
Full text linkWhile legal frameworks grant women equal rights and opportunities to participate in any occupation, gender inequality continues in part due to the persistent gender segregation within the workforce. Gender socialization places women into roles that limit their occupational opportunities, so this study explores women’s understanding of their career options based upon the potential constraints that come from their identity as a woman. This study uses a qualitative approach, using semi-structured interviews conducted with students at Butler University to gather information on women’s personal perspectives on how their gender impacted their perceived career options. A sample of nine undergraduate women were interviewed, and thematic coding was used to analyze the data. Findings from the study provide insight into how gender socialization can impact women’s perceived opportunities and how they personally understand those influences
‘Dark Grandmothers,’ The Art of the Individual over the Craft of the Collectives: A Case Study of Klaas Rommelaere and his Madams
Full text linkAn examination of Belgian artist Klaas Rommelaere with a focus on his internationally renowned embroidered sculpture series, Dark Uncles (2020). Despite his role as the artist and the public face of the craft-based collaborative project, Rommelaere’s physical involvement is minimal when compared to “the madams,” the true executors of Rommelaere’s labor-intensive craftwork. This raises critical questions about authorship and reception in contemporary art, particularly the institutional reliance on the individual artist as a figurehead to promote collective craftsmanship. By analyzing Dark Uncles through a post-structural feminist lens and considering the liminality of craft production under capitalism, the paper highlights the marginalization of women’s labor in art and culture and the reinforcement of the Western model of the artist as a single, celebrated figurehead. In doing so, Rommelaere’s oeuvre serves as a case study of the ongoing tensions between ‘art’ and ‘craft,’ as well as the systemic challenges faced by crafts(wo)men in the contemporary art space
Sovereignty Games: Tribal Gaming Regulation in the Contemporary United States
Full text linkNative American sovereignty has been constantly threatened throughout the history of the United States, but now they are not being threatened in ways that we are used to. In the past sovereignty of Native Americans has been taken through outright violence, but now it is being taken through much more discreet means. Since the creation of Native American reservations they have been treated as sovereign nations that can set their own rules and regulations. This has been the precedent for gambling regulations as well, but the states didn’t like that they didn’t have control over gambling operations in their borders. States have operated very differently in terms of gambling regulation; the restrictiveness of each state varies depending on what state you look at. My study asked: what explains variation in how states regulate tribal gaming? For my research I conducted a comparative case study of two states in the United States that are similar geographically and culturally, but differ in the approaches they have taken on tribal gaming regulation. The dependent variable in my research was the restrictiveness of implementation of tribal-state gaming compacts. I found that economic incentives, political coalitions, and partisan composition of the state legislatures all influence state approaches to tribal sovereignty in the realm of gaming
The Ripple Archives
Full text linkThroughout my undergraduate education, my writing has turned towards subjects that most people willfully ignore. I’ve been fascinated with the machine of capitalism, and how it often leads to death or unfulfilled life. We pack infinity into a small box we carry around, endless information that leaves us feeling a multitude of ways. With this endless information, progress, and consumption, comes death. Death on the personal level, a human experience for all of our sentient existence, but also death within our surroundings, and deaths worldwide, broadcasted and mediated through our technology and news sources. With the help of my honors thesis mentor, Alessandra Lynch, I developed the concept of a literary archive, titled The Ripple Archives, in which the speaker attempts to give voices to neglected and abandoned figures, objects, and emotions. This archive contains not only a multiplicity of subjects, but structures, containing packing lists, elegies, conversations, and even calendars. The archive finds commonalities between the internet, political events, and Death, both a mysterious place and figure. Through the practice of archiving, the speaker hopes to find some form of deliverance from the inevitability of death and progress, whether it is in the physical world or in their imagination