Neuroscience & Behavior
Student Accomplishments
| Research Awards | Publications |
| International Presentations | Local Presentations |
Research Awards
GRACA
Mohammad Alyetama
Samantha Bissell
Lidia Boghean
Alicia P. Buttner (2013, 2014)
Sarah B. Carp
Jon Cavanaugh (2013, 2014)
Zach Darwish
Christine Embury
Elizabeth Heinrichs-Graham (2013)
Michelle Huffman (2013)
Jon Hollingsworth
Attakias Mertens
Aaryn Mustoe (2013, 2014)
Jacquelyn (Davis) Omelian (2013, 2014)
Amy Proskovec
Louis Martin (2013, 2014)
Andrew Riquier (2013)
Jack Taylor (2013, 2014)
UCRCA
Andrew Riquier (2014)
Louis Martin (2013)
Scholarships/Awards
Sarah B. Carp
NIH NRSA F31
Lidia Boghean
Rhoden Biological Fellowship. UNO
Jon Cavanaugh
Departmental nominee for Presidential Fellowship (Masters), UNO (2013)
Rhoden Biological Fellowship. UNO. 2014-2015.
Elizabeth Graham
UNO Dissertation Scholarship recipient (2014)
Helen Hansen Outstanding Graduate Student nominee, Psychology (2013)
Jacquelyn (Davis) Omelian
Association for Chemoreceptive Sciences, Travel Fellowship (2014)
Louis Martin
Association for Chemoreception Sciences Housing Award, (2014)
Aaryn Mustoe
University of Nebraska Presidential Graduate Fellowship 2013-2014
American Society of Primatology Student Competition Finalist 2013
UNO Outstanding Graduate Student Oral Presentation Award 2013
Amy Proskovec
UNO Presidential Graduate Fellowship nominee
Andrew Riquier
Buffett Early Childhood Institute Graduate Scholar
Kristen Snyder
Competitive Fellowship from Graduate Studies at UNO 2013
Graduate Student Publications
Carp, S.B., Taylor, J.H., French, J.A. (2019). Dopamine receptor manipulation does not alter patterns of partner preference in long-term marmoset pairs. Physiology and Behavior. doi: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2019.03.004
Carp, S.B., Taylor, J.H., Womack, S.L., French, J.A. (2018). Dopamine modulation of reunion behavior in short and long term marmoset pairs. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution – Behavioral and Evolutionary Ecology. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2018.00046
Embury CM, Wiesman AI, Proskovec AL, Mills MS, Heinrichs-Graham E, Wang YP, Calhoun VD, Stephen JM, & Wilson TW (2019). Neural dynamics of verbal working memory processing in children and adolescents. Neuroimage, 185, 191-197. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.10.038
Embury CM, Wiesman AI, McDermott TJ, Proskovec AL, Heinrichs-Graham E, Lord GH, Brau KL, Drincic AT, Desouza CV, & Wilson TW (2019). The impact of type 1 diabetes on neural activity serving attention. Human Brain Mapping, 40(4), 1093-1100. doi: 10.1002/hbm.24431
Embury CM, Wiesman AI, Proskovec AL, Heinrichs-Graham E, McDermott TJ, Lord GH, Brau KL, Drincic AT, Desouza CV & Wilson TW (2018). Altered brain dynamics in patients with type 1 diabetes during working memory processing. Diabetes, 67(6), 1140-1148. doi: 10.2337/db17-1382
Proskovec AL, Wiesman AI, Heinrichs-Graham E, Wilson TW. (2018). Beta oscillatory dynamics in the prefrontal and superior temporal cortices predict spatial working memory performance. Scientific Reports. 8(1), 8488. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-26863-x PMID: 29855522
Proskovec AL, Heinrichs-Graham E, Wiesman AI, McDermott TJ, Wilson TW. (2018). Oscillatory dynamics in the dorsal and ventral attention networks during the reorienting of attention. Human Brain Mapping. 39(5), 2177-2190. DOI: 10.1002/hbm.23997 PMID: 29411471
Embury CM, Wiesman AI, McDermott TJ, Proskovec AL, Heinrichs-Graham E, Lord GH, Brau KL, Drincic AT, Desouza CV, Wilson TW. (2019). The impact of type 1 diabetes on neural activity serving attention. Human Brain Mapping. DOI: 10.1002/hbm.24431 PMID: 30368968
Birnie, A.K., Taylor, J.H., Cavanaugh, J., & French, J.A. (2013). Quality of maternal and paternal care predicts later stress reactivity in the cooperatively-breeding marmoset (Callithrix geoffroyi). Psychoneuroendocrinology, 38(12), 3003-3014.
Buttner, A. P. & Strasser, R. (2014). Contagious yawning, social cognition, and arousal: an investigation of the processes underlying shelter dogs’ responses to human yawns. Animal Cognition, 17, 95-104.
Cavanaugh, J. & French, J.A. (2013). Post-partum variation in the expression of paternalcare is unrelated to urinary steroid metabolites in marmoset fathers. Hormones and Behavior, 63(4), 551-558.
French, J.A., Mustoe, A.C., Cavanaugh, J. & Birnie, A.K. (2013). The influence of androgenic steroid hormones on female aggression in ‘atypical’ mammals. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 368 (1631).
Mustoe, A. C., Taylor, J. H., Birnie, A. K., Huffman, M. C., & French, J. A. (2014). Gestational cortisol and play shape development of marmosets’ HPA functioning and behavioral responses and stressors. Developmental Psychobiology. doi: 10.1002/dev.21203
Taylor, J.H., Mustoe, A.C., French, J.A., (2014). Behavioral responses to social separation stressor change across development and are dynamically related to HPA activity in marmosets. American Journal of Primatology, 76(3), 239-248. DOI: 10.1002/ajp.22228
Kurz MJ, Heinrichs-Graham E, Arpin DJ, Becker KM, Wilson TW (2014). Aberrant Synchrony in the Somatosensory Cortices Predicts Motor Performance Errors in Children with Cerebral Palsy. Journal of Neurophysiology 111(3):573-9. PMID: 24225536.
Becker KM, Heinrichs-Graham E, Fox HS, Robertson KR, Sandkovsky US, O’Neill J, Swindells S, Wilson TW (2013). Decreased MEG beta oscillations in HIV-infected older adults during the resting-state. Journal of NeuroVirology 19(6): 586-94. PMID: 24297500.
Wilson TW, Heinrichs-Graham E, White ML, Knott NL, Wetzel MW. (2013) Estimating the passage of minutes: Deviant oscillatory frontal activity in medicated and un-medicated ADHD. Neuropsychology 27(6): 652-65. PMID: 24040925.
Wilson TW, Heinrichs-Graham E, Robertson KR, Sandkovsky U, O’Neill J, Knott NL, Fox HS, & Swindells S. (2013). Functional brain abnormalities during finger-tapping in HIV-infected older adults: A magnetoencephalography study. Journal of Neuroimmune Pharmacology 8(4): 965-74. PMID: 23749418.
Wilson TW, Fox HS, Robertson KR, Sandkovsky U, O’Neill J, Heinrichs-Graham E, Knott NL, & Swindells S. (2013). Abnormal MEG oscillatory activity during visual processing in the prefrontal cortices and frontal eye-fields of the aging HIV brain. PLoS One 8(6): e66241. PMID: 23840428.
Franzen JD, Heinrichs-Graham E, White ML, Wetzel MW, Knott NL, Wilson TW (2013). Atypical coupling between posterior regions of the default-mode network in ADHD: A pharmaco-MEG study. Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience 38(5): 333-40. PMID: 23611175.
Madhavan D, Heinrichs-Graham E, Wilson TW (2013). Whole-brain functional connectivity increases with extended duration of focal epileptiform activity. Neuroscience Letters 542: 26-9. PMID: 23506687.
Wilson TW, Franzen JD, Heinrichs-Graham E, White ML, Knott NL, Wetzel MW (2013). Broadband neurophysiological abnormalities in the medial prefrontal region of the default-mode network in adults with ADHD. Human Brain Mapping 34: 566-74. PMID: 22102400.
International/National Presentations
Mohammad Alyetama (Invited talk, North Carolina State) - Chronic Toxoplasma gondii Infection and Domestic Cat Movements
Kristi L. Apa (2018) Foliate Taste Bud Volume is Retained Following Adult Chorda Tympani Nerve Injury in Rat.s Society for Neuroscience, CA
Sarah B. Carp (2018) Differential Effects of Receptor-Specific Dopamine Treatment on Short and Long-term Marmoset Pairs Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology
Embury CM, McDermott TJ, Wiesman AI, Brau KG, Desouza CV, Drincic AT, & Wilson TW (2018). Altered Oscillatory Dynamics of Visual Selective Attention Processing in Patients with Type 1 Diabetes [Abstract]. The 21st International Conference on Biomagnetism, Philadelphia
Embury CM, Wiesman AI, Proskovec AL, Heinrichs-Graham E, Wang YP, Calhoun VD, Stephen JM, & Wilson TW (2018). Sex and Developmental Differences in Neural Component Recruitment During Verbal Working Memory Processing [Abstract]. The 21st International Conference on Biomagnetism, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Embury CM, McDermott TJ, Wiesman AI, Brau KG, Desouza CV, Drincic AT, & Wilson TW (2018). Altered Neural Dynamics During a Flanker Attention Task in Patients with Type 1 Diabetes [Abstract]. The American Diabetes Association 78th Scientific Sessions, Orlando, Florida.
Embury CM, Wiesman AI, Proskovec AL, Heinrichs-Graham E, Wang YP, Calhoun VD, Stephen JM & Wilson TW (2018). Sex Differences in the Oscillatory Dynamics Serving Visual Working Memory in Development: a MEG Study [Abstract]. 25th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA, USA.
Mills MS, Embury CM, Warren DE, Robinson AM, Meredith CK, Manker BR, Khanna MM, Klanecky AK, Calhoun VD, Stephen JM, Wang YP, Wilson TW, & Badura-Brack AS. (2018). Amygdala, Hippocampal, and Parahippocampal Volumes Vary By Sex and Traumatic Life Events in Healthy Children. [Abstract] Association for Psychological Science (APS) Annual Convention 2018, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Mills MS, Embury CM, Robinson AM, Meredith CK, Manker BR, Khanna MM, Klanecky AK, Brown JR, Calhoun VD, Stephen JM, Wang YP, Wilson TW, & Badura-Brack AS. (2018). Number of Traumatic Life Events Are Associated with Psychological Symptoms in a Community Sample of Healthy Children. [Abstract] APS Annual Convention 2018, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Proskovec AL, Wiesman AI, Wilson TW. (2018). Alpha and beta oscillatory dynamics are modulated by verbal working memory load. Presented at the 21st International Conference on Biomagnetism (BIOMAG 2018). Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Proskovec AL, Wiesman AI, Wilson TW. (2018). Prefrontal and parietal oscillations underlie load-related differences in spatial working memory performance. Presented at the 21st International Conference on Biomagnetism (BIOMAG 2018). Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Spooner RK, Wiesman AI, Proskovec AL, Heinrichs-Graham E, Wilson TW. (2018) Top-down influence on sensory and motor gamma responses during the reorienting of attention. Presented at the 21st International Conference on Biomagnetism (BIOMAG 2018). Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Proskovec AL, Wiesman AI, Heinrichs-Graham E, Wilson TW. (2018). Neural oscillations in the prefrontal and superior temporal cortices predict spatial working memory performance. Presented at the 25th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS 2018). Boston, MA, USA.
Riquier, A. J. & Sollars, S. I. (2018). The microglia response to transection of the chorda tympani nerve is resistant to manipulation by dietary sodium deprivation. Regenerative Medicine Symposium, Omaha, NE., May 2018.
Riquier, A. J. & Sollars, S. I. (2018). Differential time course of the microglia response to neonatal and adult rat CTX is not influenced by dietary sodium deprivation. 40th Annual Conference of Association for Chemoreception Sciences, Bonita Springs, FL., April 2018.
Buttner, A. P. & Strasser, R.(2013). Understanding the physiological processes that underlie dogs’ yawning in response to human yawns. Oral presentation at the 22nd Annual International Society for Anthrozoology 2013 Conference, Chicago, IL.
Cavanaugh, J. & French, J.A. (2013). The presence of a male co-twin in utero does not affect the lifetime reproductive success of female marmosets. Poster presented at the 36th meeting of the American Society of Primatologists, San Juan, PR.
Cavanaugh, J. & French, J.A. (2013). The presence of a male co-twin in utero does not affect the lifetime reproductive success of female marmosets. Poster presented at the 17th Annual Meeting for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology, Atlanta, GA.
Mustoe, A.C., Harnisch, A., Cavanaugh, J., French, J.A. (2013). Do marmosets care to share? Other-regarding preferences following manipulation of the oxytocin system. Presented at the 36th meeting of the American Society of Primatologists. San Juan, Puerto Rico. Student competition finalist
Mustoe, A.C., Santo, J.B., Adams, R.E., Bukowski, W.B., (2014). Prosocial behavior is related to girls’ psychology and boys’ physiological measures of negative reactivity in adolescent children. Presented at the 15th Society for Research on Adolescence Biennial Meeting, Austin, TX
Huffman, M. C., Birnie, A. K., & French, J. A. (2013, June). Prenatal androgen exposure influences timing of reproductive development in female, but not male, marmosets (C. Geoffroyi). Poster presented at the annual Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology, Atlanta, GA and American Society of Primatology, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Martin, L. J., & Sollars, S. I. (2014). Neonatal Chorda Tympani Transection Reduces Adult Glossopharyngeal Nerve Responses to NaCl in Rats. Association for Chemoreception Sciences, 36.
Martin, L. J., & Sollars, S. I. (2013). Functional profile of the adult glossopharyngeal nerve following neonatal chorda tympani transection in rats. Association for Chemoreception Sciences, 35.
Omelian, J.M. & Sollars, S.I. (2014). Electrophysiological responses of the chorda tympani nerve following chronic capsaicin exposure in rats. Association for Chemoreception Sciences, 39.
Omelian, J.M. & Sollars, S.I. (2013). Long-term acclimation to capsaicin affects taste bud volume and consumption in rats. Association for Chemoreception Sciences, 38.
Omelian, J. M., Martin, L. J., & Sollars, S. I. (2014). Electrophysiological responses of the chorda tympani following chronic capsaicin exposure in adult rats. Association for Chemoreception Sciences, 36.
Placzek, R. & Strasser, R. (2013). The Influence of Short-term Increases in Testosterone on Status-relevant Aggressive Behaviors.Nebraska Psychological Society, Nov. 2nd, 2013.
Placzek, R. &Strasser, R. (2013). The Influence of Short-term Increases in Testosterone on Status-relevant Aggressive Behaviors.Animal Behavior Society, July 30th, 2013.
Taylor, JH & French, JA (2013). Behavioral Responses to Social Separation Decrease Across Development and are Dynamically Related to HPA Activity in Marmosets. Poster presented at the annual meetings of the Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology and the American Society of Primatologists.
McDermott TJ, Badura Brack A, Heinrichs-Graham E, Wilson TW (2014). Working memory deficits in veterans with combat related PTSD: A magnetoencephalography study. To be presented at the 26th Annual APS Convention, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Badura Brack A, Becker KM, Heinrichs-Graham E, McDermott TJ, Ryan T, Wilson TW (2014). Magnetoencephalography reveals combat veterans’ resting state is much less restful than matched-controls. To be presented at the 26th Annual APS Convention, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Heinrichs-Graham E, Wilson TW, Santamaria PM, Heithoff SK, Torres-Russotto D, Hutter-Saunders JAL, Estes KA, Meza JL, Mosley RL, Gendelman HE (2013). Aberrant beta oscillations during movement planning in Parkinson’s using MEG. Presented at the 19th Annual Conference of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Seattle, WA, USA.
Wilson TW, Heinrichs-Graham E, Robertson KR, Sandkovsky US, O’Neill J, Fox HS, Swindells S (2013). MEG oscillatory activity during visual processing in HIV-infected and uninfected older adults. Presented at the 19th Annual Conference of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Seattle, WA, USA.
Wilson TW, Heinrichs-Graham E, Becker KM, White ML, Wetzel MW (2013). Revisiting medial prefrontal cortex dysfunction in adults with ADHD: Evidence from Pharmaco-MEG imaging. Presented at the 68th Annual Meeting of the Society of Biological Psychiatry (SoBP), San Francisco, CA, USA.
Arpin DJ, Becker KM, Heinrichs-Graham E, Wilson TW, Kurz MJ (2013). Neuromagnetic activity of the sensorimotor cortices during the motor planning and execution stages in children with cerebral palsy. Presented at the 37th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Biomechanics, Omaha, NE, USA.
Kurz MJ, Arpin D, Heinrichs-Graham E, Becker KM, Wilson TW. (2013). The neuromagnetic activity of the sensorimotor cortices and the ankle force control is altered in children with cerebral palsy. Presented at the 37th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Biomechanics. Omaha, NE, USA.
Schroeder CL, Heinrichs-Graham E, Becker KM, Wilson TW, Bonasera SJ. (2013). Magnetoencephalography evaluation of a computerized cognitive assessment battery. Presented at the 2013 Conference of the American Geriatrics Society. Grapevine, TX, USA.
Local Presentations
Buttner, A. P. (2014). Does the human stress response to competitive loss influence dogs’ cortisol concentration? Oral presentation at the UNO Student Research and Creative Activity Fair, Omaha, NE.
Buttner, A. P. (2014). Does the human stress response to competitive loss influence dogs’ cortisol concentration? Oral presentation at the UNO Student Research and Creative Activity Fair, Omaha, NE.
Cavanaugh, J. & French, J.A. (2013). Temporal patterns of sociality and steroid
metabolite excretion during pair-bond formation in marmosets. Poster presented at the
Nebraska Neuroscience Symposium, sponsored by EPSCoR, Omaha, NE.
Cavanaugh, J., Mustoe, A.C., Taylor, J.H., & French, J.A. (2014). Oxytocin facilitates fidelity in well-established marmoset pairs. Paper presented at the 6th Annual Student Research and Creative Activity Fair at the University of Nebraska – Omaha.
Davis, J.M. (2014). Taste receptor cell counts following oral capsaicin desensitization. University of Nebraska at Omaha, Research and Creative Activities Fair.
Davis, J.M. (2013). Chronic oral capsaicin highlights relationship between chorda tympani and lingual nerves. University of Nebraska at Omaha, Research and Creative Activities Fair.
Huffman, M. C., Birnie, A. K., Topf, E. G., & French, J. A. (2014, March). The role of CRF-R2 on alloparental care in Mongolian gerbils.Poster presented at Research and Creative Activity Fair, Omaha, NE.
Martin, L. J., & Sollars, S. I. (2014). Neonatal Chorda Tympani Transection Reduces NaCl Responses in the Glossopharyngeal Nerve of the Adult Rat. University of Nebraska at Omaha Research and Creative Activity Fair.
Martin, L. J., & Sollars, S. I. (2013). Functional profile of the adult glossopharyngeal nerve following neonatal chorda tympani transection in rats. University of Nebraska Medical Center Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience Symposium. Omaha, NE.
Martin, L. J., & Sollars, S. I. (2013). Altered Glossopharyngeal Nerve Functioning Following Neonatal Chorda Tympani Transection in Rats. Nebraska Research and Innovation Conference, Omaha, NE.
Martin, L. J., & Sollars, S. I. (2013). Taste activity in the adult glossopharyngeal nerve following neonatal chorda tympani nerve injury in rats. University of Nebraska at Omaha Research and Creative Activity Fair
Mustoe, A.C., Harnisch, A., & French, J.A. (2014). Marmosets’ response to inequity following manipulation of the oxytocin system. Presented at the 6th Annual UNO Student Research and Creativity Fair. Omaha, NE.
Mustoe, A.C., Harnisch, A., Cavanaugh, J., French, J.A. (2013). Care to Share? Exploring the relationship between altruism and oxytocin in marmosets. Presented at the 5th Annual UNO Student Research and Creativity Fair. Omaha, NE.
Mustoe, A.C., Harnisch, A., Cavanaugh, J., French, J.A. (2013). Do marmosets care to share? Other-regarding preferences following manipulation of the oxytocin system. Presented at the Nebraska Neuroscience Symposium, Omaha, NE
Placzek, R. & Strasser, R. (2013). The Influence of Short-term Increases in Testosterone on Status-relevant Aggressive Behaviors.Nebraska Psychological Society, Nov. 2nd, 2013.
Riquier, A. (2014). An examination of microglia presence following chorda tympani transection across rat development. University of Nebraska at Omaha Research and Creative Activity Fair.
Riquier, A. (2013). Microglia levels in response to taste nerve transection in developing rats. Presentation of Research Proposal.Nebraska Psychological Society Meeting.
Riquier, A. (2013). Astrocyte, microglia, and brain-derived neurotrophic factor levels In response to neural insult in developing rats. Presentation of Research Proposal. Nebraska's Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research Conference.
Taylor, JH & French, JA (2013). A Pilot Study Examining Parental Interest in Marmosets. Poster presented at the EPSCoR Nebraska Neuroscience Symposium.