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Barbara Brehm-Curtis
Exercise & Sport Studies
Nicholas Horton
Mathematics & Statistics |
- Chris Aiken, Dance
Connections between physicality or embodiment and intention and the imagination, especially in dance
- Barbara Brehm-Curtis, Organizing Fellow,
Exercise & Sport Studies
Nutrition and health, how people attempt to change their behavior to alter physical and emotional health
- Katherine Dymek '14, Biological Sciences
Chemical and pharmaceutical treatments for mental health issues and distinctions between addiction and treatment
- Samantha Floyd '14, Linguistics, Government
Ethical, legal and judicial implications of mind-altering treatments
- Patricia Gonzalez, Spanish & Portuguese
Altering minds in search of mystical experiences, especially the use of natural substances to transcend this life and explore others
- Adam Hall, Biological Sciences
Molecular mechanisms of anesthetics and what anesthesia can tell us about consciousness
- Nicholas Horton, Organizing Fellow,
Mathematics & Statistics
Understanding eating disorders to inform future prevention and treatment efforts
- Kaja Katamay AC,
English Language & Literature
How human minds are affected by and are changing in response to technology
- Rachel McDonald '14, Sociology
The development, practice and politics associated with using mind-altering drugs across various art mediums in the 20th and 21st century
- James Miller, Economics
Using technology to improve human bodies and minds; eugenics, cognitive enhancing drugs and brain fitness video games
- Beth Powell, Psychology
Addiction to non-drug substances and activities, in particular body modification, with an emphasis on whether people can become addicted to body alterations such as tattoos, piercings, and tanning
- Denise Rochat, French Studies
Extreme cosmetic surgery, specifically the impact of grafting the full human face of one individual onto the head of another
- Alexandra Russell-Oliver '14, Classical Studies
Connections between the mind and language and the impact of altering the mind on language, especially in conditions such as autism
- Marjorie Senechal, Mathematics & History of Science
Investigating the demise of the distinction between "psychic" and "physical" addictions
- Dana Sherwood AC, Psychology
Body image, health, obesity and eating disorders
- Jane Stangl, Exercise & Sport Studies
The cultural debate around obesity, mediated constructions and manipulations of the body, prosthetic devices and cyborg technologies, tattoos, and the laboring body as machinated and computerized
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