Iciar Muelas Aragon & Daisy Glazebrook - “Brain Fragility” (poster session) Traumatic Brain Injury is a major cause of death and disability in the US (nearly 3 million people sustain it). Every day, 153 people in the US die from injuries that include TBI. In fact, TBI’s are the leading cause of death in children. Those who survive it can face effects for at least a few days, or the rest of their lives. In our presentation, we’ll explain to people how you can sustain a TBI, recover from them, and how to protect yourself from getting it. Our poster will focus on 5 main types of TBI: concussions, contusions, brain hemorrhages, intracranial hematomas and second impact syndrome. Mario Najera & Jennifer Livengood - “Stigma of Mental Toughness: Collegiate Athletes Opinions and Intentions to Seek Mental Health Services” (poster session) As sports continue to change from how they used to be, so has the importance of mental health for athletes. We tend to hear many coaches from little league to even pro leagues tell athletes to “suck it up” and be tough when they feel pain/agony. Researchers have started to examine how the stigma of mental toughness has or does not have an effect on athletes with the use of surveys. For this study, data will be collected by a 36-item survey that consists of 5 different questionnaires that will analyze different topics, for instance, if the stigma of mental toughness has a correlation with help-seeking. We hypothesize that there will be a negative correlation between mental health seeking and mental toughness and a positive correlation between self-perceived stigma and public stigma when seeking mental health services. Dawson Neal (poster session/special session) - Antrillo Amber Newsom (session 9) - see Baker Nienke Nijendijk - “Making a Murderer: How Forensic Psychology Played a Role in the Conviction of Brendan Dassey” (poster session) At the age of sixteen Brendan Dassey confessed to being a party in a first-degree murder, second-degree sexual assault and mutilation of a corpse. Dassey was sentenced to life in prison with the earliest possibility of parole in 2048. In 2015 the Netflix documentary, making a murderer, was released about the case. In the documentary questions are asked about the course of the investigation and its reliability. A lot of those questions are related to forensic psychology. This research dives deeper in how forensic psychology is related to this case. Areas of forensic psychology that will be looked at are, expert and eyewitness testimony, and the method of interviewing, also considering that Dassey was a minor at the time of crime and conviction. Jordan Nunn - “I Have a Happy Person and a Sad Person in the Same Day with Bipolar Disorder” (poster session) The exact cause of bipolar disorder isn't known, but a combination of genetics, environment, and altered brain structure and chemistry may play a role. To diagnose bipolar disorder, a doctor performs a physical exam, asks about your symptoms, and recommends blood testing to determine if another condition such as hypothyroidism, is causing your symptoms. Lana O’Hara (poster session) - see Torres
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