CUNY Academic Commons | Ayanna K. Alexander-Street | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/aalexander/activity/ Activity feed for Ayanna K. Alexander-Street. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 e2aa4508f7990a77fa8c154bd336fc74 Ayanna K. Alexander-Street wrote a new post on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=665 Tue, 21 Apr 2015 05:16:12 -0400 Of course this week spoke to me as a neuro person—but also as a human with a constant internal dialogue (as well as the imagined voice of my Yorkie, Madison, who sounds like Bea Arthur—please tell me I’m not […]

]]> ff36408d6fa2f0ec58217a03d9ca034b Ayanna K. Alexander-Street joined the group CUNY Women in STEM https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/345420/ Wed, 15 Apr 2015 21:15:59 -0400 f1edc7c64a46f6f62f934e1efc27c2df Ayanna K. Alexander-Street commented on the post, Post One-Sentence Descriptions of Your Research Projects Here, on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self https://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/04/11/post-one-sentence-descriptions-of-your-research-projects-here/#comment-192 Wed, 15 Apr 2015 21:15:39 -0400 My paper is about how environment influences outcomes in drug use/abuse, using both animal and human studies as background (enriched environment VS stark environment).

]]> 4eabe68971b9050dbe3cdb1d2955d5d6 Ayanna K. Alexander-Street wrote a new post on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=535 Tue, 24 Mar 2015 22:54:16 -0400 I don’t know if I have missed any previous posts, but it doesn’t appear that there are any projects that resemble mine…I hope that the project is within the scope of the course. With this, I must bid you all […]

]]> 48263a832e62d64e2ff8cac5eaa9a23b Ayanna K. Alexander-Street wrote a new post on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=532 Tue, 24 Mar 2015 22:51:35 -0400 My project involves how addictive behaviors are developed. I have worked in neuropharmacology for a while and there are a few schools of thought that exist. My collaborator and I look at how the presence of a drug […]

]]> 9f577ba22a50400e6579aefd4bb609c1 Ayanna K. Alexander-Street wrote a new post on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=529 Tue, 24 Mar 2015 22:27:41 -0400 I’m late to the party, I apologize, I’ve been holed up in the lab running behavioral expts, how apropos to read a text about behavior this week! I heard from a colleague about this book I think in the Fall, we […]

]]> d621255b0236193f1067cd67c3220598 Ayanna K. Alexander-Street wrote a new post on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=409 Tue, 17 Mar 2015 03:09:53 -0400 1. I was raised by a Christian mother and a Muslim father, who sent me to Catholic school (for the discipline!). In spite of their best efforts I’m agnostic now.

2. I come from a very musical family, my father […]

]]> d72c7ff9f573cdb8da4d9372c5a0af80 Ayanna K. Alexander-Street wrote a new post on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=348 Tue, 03 Mar 2015 05:10:06 -0500 The first line that struck me of Hacking’s chapter, that brought me back to many discussions with friends, was: “…mental illnesses, more neurotic than psychotic and we wonder which of them are affectations, […]

]]> 0a6929cab744f8ebfd0743cb1395fe22 Ayanna K. Alexander-Street wrote a new post on the site MALS 7000: Inventing the Self http://selfinventing.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=251 Tue, 17 Feb 2015 21:44:29 -0500 Let’s try this again, I’m working from my iPad, and this will just not post!

First, as a neuroscientist, I am not accustomed to using these beautiful, poetic terms to describe consciousness—I relate to a line […]

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