Cosette Fox

• PhD
• Professor (Associate) at Holy Cross College

Centered around integrating Christian faith into neuroscience and psychology, What is God’s Design for Your Brain? Connecting Neuroscience to the Bible presents an analysis of brain, mind, and behavior from a biblical perspective. The text explores contemporary topics within these fields, focusing on what constitutes health and maladaptation in ter...

Are online growth mindset single-session interventions culturally acceptable and effective in improving mental health in Arabic adolescents? [Invited talk].

Evidence-based single session interventions (SSI) that promote growth mindset have been shown to be associated with improved mental health, particularly in adolescents. Youth in Lebanon suffer from alarmingly high rates of mental illness combined with lack of availability of mental health services and a stigma for seeking help. The present study in...

Implicit theories pertain to one’s beliefs about personal traits. According to the implicit theories of intelligence, a fixed mindset perceives intelligence as stagnant, whereas a growth mindset perceives intelligence as malleable and subject to growth. Interventions aimed at promoting a growth mindset have been successful in multiple realms among...

Implicit theories refer to one’s implicit beliefs about his or her personal attributes being stagnant (fixed mindset) or subject to growth through effort and perseverance (growth mindset). Single session interventions (SSI) that promote growth mindset have been shown to be associated in adolescents with decrease in depressive and anxiety symptoms a...

Individuals with high levels of growth mindsets believe that attributes are malleable. Although links between acute stress responses and growth mindsets of thought, emotion, and behaviour are central to the conceptualisation of psychological disorders and their treatment, such links have yet to be examined. Undergraduate participants (N = 135) comp...

Glucose has been shown to have a memory facilitating effect. The goal of this study is to test if sucrose, a carbohydrate consumed on a daily basis, would also enhance memory in male college students. Subjects were given either a sucrose (50 g) or a placebo drink (50.6 mg of saccharine). Subjects filled the Stress Indicator Questionnaire that measu...

Multiple research studies revealed the benefits of adopting a growth mindset of intelligence for students of all ages. However, few studies have investigated the advantage of having a growth mindset of personality or having grit on academic performance. Therefore, this study investigated the influence of grit and implicit theories of intelligence a...

The Implicit Theory of Intelligence, first proposed by Carol Dweck in 1995, states that individuals may possess an entity theory (Fixed Mindset) or an incremental theory (Growth Mindset) about their own intelligence. Accordingly, individuals with fixed mindsets perceive their intelligence as constant and not subject to growth, while individuals wit...

This study investigated the effect of glucose administration and emotional arousal on memory. Participants were undergraduate college students randomly assigned to glucose (50 g glucose) and placebo groups (50.6 mg saccharine) and further divided into high and low emotional arousal groups. High and low emotional arousal groups were shown a slide sh...

Summary: Research on implicit theories of intelligence has focused on academic achievement, elucidating the benefits of adopting a growth mindset for students of all ages. However, few studies investigated the advantage of having a growth mindset of personality or having grit on academic performance. Therefore, this study investigated the influence...

Environmental enrichment (EE) has beneficial neurobiological, physiological and behavioral effects. The purpose of the present paper is to review the animal research literature pertaining to the impact of EE on altering physiological and behavioral anxiety outcomes. Evidence supports the view that EE attenuates responses to certain anxiety provokin...

K-ATP channels formed of the Sur and Kir subunits are widely distributed in the brain. Sur1-Kir6.2 is the most common combination of K-ATP channel subunits in the brain and Kir6.2 plays an important role in glucose metabolism through pancreatic insulin secretion or hypothalamic glucose sensing. K-ATP channels have also been reported to play a role...

Ins2C96Y Akita mice represent a model of spontaneous early-onset diabetes mellitus, expressing a mutant non-functional isoform of insulin. These mice are characterized by a reduced number of pancreatic beta cells resulting in hypoinsulinemia and hyperglycemia. We obtained longitudinal measures of morning fasting blood glucose levels and gait perfor...

Various types of learning, including operant conditioning, induce an increase in cellular activation concomitant with an increase in local cerebral glucose utilization (LCGU). This increase is mediated by increased cerebral blood flow or changes in brain capillary density and diameter. Because glucose transporters are ultimately responsible for glu...

A family of seven facilitative glucose transporters (Glut1-5, 7 and 8) mediates the cellular uptake of glucose. In the brain, Glut2, Glut5 and Glut8 are found at relatively low levels whereas Glut1, Glut3 and Glut4 were reported in abundance in several brain regions. Using immunofluorescence, this study investigated, compared and quantified the loc...

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Ottawa, 2005. Includes bibliographies.