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ISEF · 2025
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The purpose of this study was to investigate differences in electroencephalography (EEG) responses between active and passive sensory stimulation to identify neural patterns beneficial for i…
ISEF · 2025
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) affects over 280 million people worldwide, yet current treatments remain ineffective for nearly one-third of patients. Emerging research suggests that gut mic…
ISEF · 2025
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This research project aims to create an artificial intelligence tool to improve social communication for neurodivergent individuals, especially those with autism spectrum disorder. The test…
ISEF · 2025
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Deepfakes are a rapidly improving tool for disinformation. In 2025, around 8 million deepfakes were shared online, with numbers doubling every 6 months. Research has found that people strugg…
ISEF · 2025
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Company valuation influences billions in capital allocation across individual and institutional investors. While established methods like discounted cash flow and dividend discount models pr…
ISEF · 2025
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This project introduces an Artificial intelligence powered web application designed to assist in the early detection of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) through facial expression analysis. Usi…
ISEF · 2025
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This project primarily aimed to quantitatively assess gender differences in the attribution of certain mental disorders to certain gender identities. It secondarily assessed gender differenc…
ISEF · 2025
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Throughout school, I have only ever encountered the topic of diabetes once. That was in sixth grade; even then, there was only a paragraph about the disease. As I have matured and accepted m…
ISEF · 2025
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The success of the author's 2023 accessible, nudge-based good driver app, with its novel speeding interventions, confirmed how to communicate risk effectively and modify behaviour. However,…
ISEF · 2025
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Despite millions of teenagers feeling overwhelmingly stressed, mental health resources are often inaccessible, expensive, and/or under-promoted. Using 235 responses from opt-in anonymous que…
ISEF · 2025
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Equine-assisted intervention (EAI) is known to improve humans’ psychological and physical functions. Equine-assisted activity (EAA) is one service of EAI that involves interaction between hu…
ISEF · 2025
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Recent advances in audio neurofeedback therapy offer a promising solution for individuals with ADHD by training them to self-regulate brain activity, by reducing excess theta waves and enhan…
ISEF · 2025
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The brain doesn’t always age at the same pace as the rest of the body. Some people's brains stay sharp well into old age, while others show signs of decline decades earlier. Detecting these…
ISEF · 2025
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The mental state of students is an area of which we need to draw more attention towards, including Mississippi. Studies show that anxiety and depression are two major mental illnesses studen…
ISEF · 2025
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Motor vehicle speeds were measured on five residential streets in different neighborhoods of Bartlesville, Oklahoma, to evaluate whether certain street and neighborhood characteristics may r…
ISEF · 2025
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The increasing dependence on electronic devices for study, work, and daily activities has raised significant concerns regarding excessive screen exposure and its potential health implication…
ISEF · 2025
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Dyslexia is a neurodevelopmental disorder that primarily affects reading abilities. Early identification of dyslexia is crucial because targeting the symptoms early will improve the reading…
ISEF · 2025
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Bilinguals acquire and process language differently than their monolingual counterparts. High definition transcranial direct current stimulation (HD-tDCS) is a non-invasive brain stimulation…
ISEF · 2025
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The current youth has been experiencing a decline in cognitive functioning, and many have attributed this to a Dopamine (DA) rewiring stemming from “easy” DA induction from online habits. Ho…
ISEF · 2025
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) have difficulty with comprehension of facial expressions. Although assistive technology has been developed to help these individuals identify…
ISEF · 2025
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Approximately 1 in 4 adolescents experience trauma by age 16, with even greater prevalence among high-risk groups such as Native American, Alaskan Native, African American, and multi-racial…
ISEF · 2025
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Political polarization creates echo chambers where misinformation thrives. When misinformation aligns with political ideologies, it reinforces biases and obstructs progress on issues like cl…
ISEF · 2025
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by persistent social interaction deficits and repetitive behaviors. Current FDA-approved drugs reduce irritabili…
ISEF · 2025
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Stroke survivors often face cognitive challenges and neurodegeneration due to stroke- induced secondary neurodegeneration (Ong). This project aimed to address this by developing and testing…
ISEF · 2025
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Entrepreneurial gender disparities have immense economic and social costs: the world loses $23 million in potential gross domestic product every minute, and promoting women entrepreneurs is…
ISEF · 2025
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This project looked at two neurodevelopmental disorders, Autism Spectrum Disorder and Dyslexia, that both contain a hereditary component and frequently co-occur. The purpose of this project…
ISEF · 2025
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that affects motor and cognitive functions, with bradykinesia, a slowing of movement, being a hallmark symptom required f…
ISEF · 2025
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Visually impaired women face difficulty identifying the start and end of their menstrual cycle due to the inability to distinguish colors, which negatively affects personal hygiene, independ…
ISEF · 2025
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The incel (involuntary celibate) community is a radicalized online subculture. In this study, I focus on the popular social media platform Reddit and analyze the activity patterns and commen…
ISEF · 2025
Behavioral and Social Sciences
A common feature in stress- related disorders is maladaptive feeding, such as undereating or overeating (Wei et al., 2019). The mechanisms of how stress influences feeding behavior remains e…