Category: Fall 2024

Ethnographic Study: Cross-Counter Encounters

ANTH 18: Research Methods in Cultural Anthropology How full-time staff at Dartmouth’s ‘53 Commons find meaning and connection Introduction In this project, I explore how service staff members…

Mental Health Practices

PSYC 50: Neuroscience of Mental Illness For my first mental health practice, I practiced box breathing, or “square breathing”, which is a repeated sequence of 4 counts inhaling,…

Sleep and Depression

PSYC 50: Neuroscience of Mental Illness How might sleep deprivation alleviate symptoms of depression? Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is a common mental illness, affecting 2-6% of people (Taraku…

Halloween at ’53 Commons

ANTH 18: Research Methods in Cultural Anthropology Names have been redacted for privacy. It is Halloween and it is 5:45 PM in ‘53 Commons and it is simultaneously…

The Default Mode Network and PTSD

PSYC 50: Neuroscience of Mental Illness Is there evidence that abnormalities in the default mode network (DMN) contribute to dissociative symptoms in PTSD and other dissociative disorders? On…