The effects parents have on child development has been thoroughly documented in cross-sectional and longitudinal studies with diverse methodologies. However, there has been less focus on disentangling the effects of parents on the development of children’s autonomic nervous syst…
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Purpose: Sport-related concussions have shown to have effects on self-efficacy, oculomotor performance, reaction time and an increased risk of lower extremity injury. Most studies have been conducted to test the effects of acute concussions in athletes and not on long-term effec…
Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) is a significant public health concern, not only because of the personal and social cost of the behavior itself, but also because it increases risk for future self-injurious behaviors, including suicide attempts. NSSI is increasingly prevalent dur…
Hemoglobin disorders or inherited blood diseases affect about 5% of the world population. One main category of these disorders is sickle-cell disease (SCD). SCD can cause many physical complications, such as kidney problems, leg ulcers, and chronic pain. Less frequently discusse…
This dissertation explored the relationship between head injury and violent crime among professional football players. This study was particularly focused on determining if the frequency or severity of head injury was related to the severity of violent crime among National Footb…
This research queries East Asian medicine practitioner mindsets regarding patient activation. Patient activation in the East Asian medicine definition is a relational process in which a practitioner facilitates a patient's acquisition of knowledge and skills to accomplish health…
The purpose of this study is to evaluate validate the memory and concentration sections of the Standardized Assessment of Concussion (SAC) from the SCAT5. Two studies were conducted. The first study examined item difficulty and discrimination using 10 new word lists of 3 version…
The growing number of doctor visits with patients who are experiencing mental health issues such as depression and anxiety, but seeking help for only the accompanying physical symptoms, has been found to be more and more frequent among Iranians. This phenomenon of expressing psy…
Research suggests that community violence exposure in children appears to be widespread and likely places children at a higher risk for aggression. However, not all children exposed to community violence develop behavioral problems. Interest has centered on possible moderating f…
Symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are a common comorbidity in veterans seeking treatment of chronic musculoskeletal pain (CMP). However, little is known regarding the mutual influence of PTSD and CMP in this population. Using cross-sectional and longitudinal data…
Drug addiction is primarily a disease of the brain's reward system. The resulting compromise in reward sensitivity traces its roots to the striatal “reward circuitry”, where excess dopamine is released by the acute administration of the drug of abuse; chronic use is in turn asso…
The purpose of this dissertation is to examine cultural differences and relationships within the Arab American community, utilizing Lee's love styles, to better understand how courtship and relationships are closely linked. I focused on investigating how Lee's Love Style Theory …
Digital devices and computing machines such as computers, hand-held devices and robots are becoming an important part of our daily life. To have affect-aware intelligent Human-Machine Interaction (HMI) systems, scientists and engineers have aimed to design interfaces which can e…
Nearly 400,000 Iranians live in the United States today (Scully, 1981). This estimate is increasing each year. There are no data regarding how many Iranians in the United States are seeking therapy. Kaeni (2006) found that Iranian culture has a stigma against mental health servi…
In mammals, the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) acts as the master circadian pacemaker of the body. The SCN coordinate the thousands of individual oscillators throughout the body to maintain optimal health and homeostatic functioning. The importance of maintaining circadian rhythm…
Drug-seeking behavior is maintained by encounters with drug-associated cues, and disrupting retrieval or reconsolidation of the drug-cue associations could reduce the risk of relapse. Previous work has shown β-adrenergic receptor (β-AR) antagonists can prevent retrieval or recon…
Psychosis is characterized by key positive symptoms and evidence potentially implicates the nociceptin receptor (NOPr) system in these processes. This pilot study investigates in vivo NOPr expression in individuals on the psychosis spectrum using the [11C]NOP-1A radioligand and …
Disparities in hiring practices based on the ethnicity of candidates, particularly those of Middle Eastern descent, continue to be an issue despite decades of legislative efforts to decrease discrimination, as evidenced by decreased rates of callbacks and discrimination complain…
This thesis reports results from two research projects that deal with interrelationships between pigment genes, photopigments, ocular structure, and vision in rodents. The first of these is an investigation of cone photopigments in the Syrian hamster, while the second examines t…