Thelma Bethea, B.S.

My background and experience in neuroscience stems from work in a psychiatric lab at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia where we observed the effects of stress, depression, and anxiety on the brain’s noradrenergic system. My interests have since shifted to motor function loss as a result of demyelinating diseases such as Multiple Sclerosis, and the role of the Corticospinal tract in motor injury and repair. Since joining the motor recovery lab, my projects include the use of behavioral and anatomical techniques to observe activity-based therapeutic effects on axonal plasticity and functional recovery after brain and/or spinal cord insult.