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Class of 2025
Avi is a junior double majoring in Biology and Psychology with a Judaic Studies minor. Prior to attending SBU, he completed a year abroad at Tel Aviv University. His concerns lie in addressing the major challenges contemporary medicine faces as well as the numerous manifestations of common prejudice and discrimination through a psychological approach. In his free time, he’s usually found outdoors, and is especially fond of hiking, biking, surfing, and team sports.
Publications
Plato’s Unloving Lover
By Aviram Nessim, March 9, 2024 Plato’s masterpiece, Phaedrus, contains two rather intricate definitions of love. On one hand, the concept of love is tainted by the prominent Athenian orator, Lysias, during his dialogue with Phaedrus, a young, impressionable student of rhetoric. As we will see, Lysias’ declamation places the “non-lover” on a pedestal while…
Exploring White Matter Alterations in Alzheimer’s Disease – An Emphasis on Myelin and Oligodendrocyte Involvement
by Aviram Nessim, October 21, 2023
The Neuroscience of Habits: How Subconscious Neural Activity Holds Control Over Our Daily Lives
by Aviram Nessim, April 8, 2023 Among the notable findings that Wendy Wood, a social psychologist at the University of Southern California, illuminated throughout her decades-long career is that an astonishing 43% of daily actions are enacted on the basis of habit (Wood et al., n.d.). A habit, or psychological disposition to repeat past behavior,…
Nine Minute Medicine? Your Brain on Music
by Aviram Nessim, October 22, 2022 The intense rise and fall of chords, flow of rhythm, intricate melody, and extensive variation of tonality as instruments play a unique tune — these are the typical sounds an individual hears while actively listening to music. Music, or sounds amalgamated to produce beauty of form and harmony, is…
Nanotherapy: Small Particles for a Big Issue
by Aviram Nessim, April 8, 2022 The incidence and mortality rates of cancer remain at an unreasonably high rate despite the existence of cancer therapies. In 2018, nearly 10 million lives were lost as a consequence of some form of cancer (NIH, 2020). That same year, almost 20 million novel cases of the pernicious disease…
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