Description: This poster discusses a research project on Alzheimer's disease (AD) and the potential benefit of music therapy. When recognizable music is played, many patients are able to hum or sing along with the song despite not remembering what they had just said. This suggests that music therapy can have a positive effect on people suffering from A.D.

Description: This poster discusses research on gangs and preventive measures. The research includes an overview of gang history and brief statistics on gang involvement in today's society.

Description: This poster discusses research on self-motivation among college students who have experienced the death of a parent. Experiencing the death of a parent is time-stopping, life-altering, and most of all, hard to overcome. Each year a significant number of people undergo a tragedy that most do not know how to conquer. In the United States about 3.5% of children experience the loss of a parent (Mireault & Bond, 1992). This study will examine potential variables that arouse the motivation in individuals who have experienced the death of a parent. It will look at variables such as gender of the deceased parent, the quality of the child's relationship with the living parent, and the child's locus of control, resilience, valuing, and social support. A total of 50 individuals will be recruited into this project. All subjects must complete a voluntary consent form in order to participate in this study. Each participant will take the assessment and correlational analyses will be done to examine relationship among variables.

Description: This poster discusses research on perceived stress as a mediator between self-efficacy and depression in persons living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). In persons living with HIV, treatment has shifted towards chronic illness management since the introduction of highly active retroviral therapy. Coping with life threatening illness is stressful. Stress occurs when environmental stressors (e.g., HIV+ stigma) overwhelm an individual's ability to handle them effectively. HIV+ individual's inability to cope with stress is associated with increased depression, and worse treatment outcome (Remien et al., 2006). Thus, coping resources are indispensable for managing stress and depression in the HIV+ community (Remien et al., 2006). Self-efficacy is a perceived feeling of control over a taxing situation. Behaviorally, HIV+ self-efficacious individuals adaptively manage stress (Colodro, Godoy-Izquierdo, & Godoy, 2010). Stress uses resources needed to deal with depression; managing stress may reduce psychological impairment (Scott-Sheldon, Fielder, & Kalichman, 2008). The authors hypothesize that higher self-efficacy is associated with decreased depression, and that stress mediates this relationship. Future longitudinal studies focusing on self-efficacious stress interventions may reduce depression in HIV+ individuals.

Description: This poster discusses research on the very early onset of schizophrenia. This research topic concerns the relationship between the amount of gray matter in a neonate's brain and the development of very early onset schizophrenia. The author was curious as to how the growth of gray matter contributed to the development of schizophrenia. It has been shown through quantitative measurements on the brain that male fetuses in women who suffer from schizophrenia contain more gray matter in their brain tissue than those from women without abnormalities. This was shown in depth through electro-encephalography along with other techniques to provide information to further the treatment for this abnormality in children.