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Psychology is a thriving department at Boston University, perennially among the most popular undergraduate major concentrations. The Department of Psychology’s faculty, more than 30 strong, continues to attract agency-funded research, publish extensively, and maintain a serious commitment to teaching BA, MA, and PhD students. The department’s affiliated research centers, the Center for Anxiety & Related Disorders and the Center for Memory & Brain, offer opportunities for research experience, as do affiliated laboratory studies in topics including child cognition, neurophysiology, developmental behavior genetics, neuroscience, psycholinguistics, and vision sciences.
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Department chair: David Somers
Campus address: 64 Cummington Street
Phone: 617-353-2580
Fax: 617-353-6933
Website: www.bu.edu/psych
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Changes in Apathy, Depression, and Anxiety in Parkinson's Disease from before to during the COVID-19 Era.
(MDPI AG, 2023-01-24)Apathy, depression, and anxiety are common non-motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease (PD). Tracking the changes in such symptoms over time would be valuable not only to determine their natural course during the disease, ... -
Smartphone-based neuropsychological assessment in Parkinson's disease: feasibility, validity, and contextually driven variability in cognition
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2022-04)OBJECTIVES: The prevalence of neurodegenerative disorders demands methods of accessible assessment that reliably captures cognition in daily life contexts. We investigated the feasibility of smartphone cognitive assessment ... -
Perceived stigma and quality of life in Parkinson's disease with additional health conditions
(BMJ, 2022)BACKGROUND: Parkinson's disease (PD) is associated with perceived stigma and affects quality of life (QoL). Additional health conditions may influence these consequences of PD. AIMS: This study assessed the impact of health ... -
Menstrual cycle length and modern living: a review
(Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2021-12-01)PURPOSE OF REVIEW: The aim of this review is to evaluate biological, life history, environmental, and lifestyle factors and exposures that cause variability in menstrual cycle length (MCL). RECENT FINDINGS: Recent literature ... -
The importance of assessing and addressing mental health barriers to PrEP use during pregnancy and postpartum in sub-Saharan Africa: state of the science and research priorities
(Wiley, 2022-10)INTRODUCTION: Pregnant and postpartum women (PPW) in sub-Saharan Africa are at disproportionately high risk of HIV infection compared to non-pregnant women. When used consistently, pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) can prevent ... -
Scale-invariant temporal history (SITH): optimal slicing of the past in an uncertain world
(2017)In both the human brain and any general artificial intelligence (AI), a representation of the past is necessary to predict the future. However, perfect storage of all experiences is not possible. One possibility, utilized ... -
Neural scaling laws for an uncertain world
(AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC, 2016)Autonomous neural systems must efficiently process information in a wide range of novel environments which may have very different statistical properties. We consider the problem of how to optimally distribute receptors ... -
A temporal record of the past with a spectrum of time constants in the monkey entorhinal cortex
(Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2020-08-18)Episodic memory is believed to be intimately related to our experience of the passage of time. Indeed, neurons in the hippocampus and other brain regions critical to episodic memory code for the passage of time at a range ... -
Internally generated time in the rodent hippocampus is logarithmically compressed
(eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd, 2022-10-17)The Weber-Fechner law proposes that our perceived sensory input increases with physical input on a logarithmic scale. Hippocampal 'time cells' carry a record of recent experience by firing sequentially during a circumscribed ...
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