Kendall Perssico

• SOAR Position: Member
• Major: Psychology
• Faculty Mentor(s): Dr. Cyrille Magne

Current Focus: Determining Oxytocin’s Role in Social Motivation of Mice

Additional Interests: Neuroscience, Gut-brain axis

Project Description

We are investigating what makes mice socially motivated. Over the summer, we validated/ developed behavior tasks to measure social motivation. This semester we will be using pharmacology to manipulate mice to examine differences in