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Ossining School District (Meagan Ryan is a finalist for the Neuroscience Research Prize)
Two Ossining High School seniors in the Science Research Program are finalists for the 2020 American Academy of Neurology and Child Neurology Society s Neuroscience Research Prize.
Meagan Ryan and Bonnie Lin are among 10 finalists for the award, which is designed to encourage high school students to research the brain and nervous system and recognize those with the potential to contribute to neuroscience. The organizations will announce four winners in January.
Meagan studied some of the changes that occur in the brain during long periods of withdrawal and relapse in cocaine addiction. She looked at the SWI/SNF remodeling complex – a group of proteins involved in gene expression and repairing damaged DNA – in mice with chronic cocaine addiction and long-term withdrawal. She learned that multiple proteins in the remodeling complex decreased after re-exposure to the drug, which sugge