This collection contains theses and dissertations from the Department of Neuroscience, collected from the Scholarship@Western Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
The Hijacked Self: Midbrain and Default Mode Network Functional Patterns in PTSD, Braeden A. Terpou
Learning object representations in deep neural networks, Ehsan Tousi
Evaluating Anesthetic Protocols for Non-Human Primate Functional Neuroimaging, Megha Verma
Characterizing The Cellular, Molecular, And Behavioural Pathology Of Repetitive mTBI In A Human Tau Transgenic Mouse, Morgan A. Walker
Uncovering Deficits in Auditory Processing and Cognition Following Hearing Loss and Prefrontal Cortex Dysfunction, Krystyna B. Wieczerzak
Neuroanatomical characterization of fruitless P2 neurons and assessment of their role in female mate receptivity, William Yeung
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Functional and Structural Brain Reorganization After Unilateral Prefrontal Cortex Lesions In Macaques, Ramina Adam
Cognitive Resources Are Recruited Consistently Across People During Story Listening, Matthew T. Bain
Characterizing putative sexually dimorphic effects of a propionic acid induced autism spectrum disorder phenotype in adult male and female rats, Katie C. Benitah
Feeling-of-Knowing Experiences Breed Curiosity, Gregory Brooks
Investigating Cognitive Impairment in TDP-43 Mouse Models of FTD-ALS Using Automated Touchscreens, Keon Coleman
Computational Unfolding of the Human Hippocampus, Jordan M. K. DeKraker
Rapid Facial Reactions of Emotional Expressions as a Function of Trait Sadism, Cathleen Fleury
Atypical Structural Connectivity and Integrity in Children with Hydrocephalus and its Relation to Executive Function, Daamoon Ghahari
Frontoparietal networks underlying saccadic eye movements in the common marmoset, Maryam Ghahremani
Optimizing Preprocessing of fMRI Data to Maximize Correspondence of Functional Anatomy Across Individuals, Nargess Ghazaleh
Elucidating the consequence and cause of microRNA dysregulation in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Zachary C. E. Hawley
Fast spiking GABAergic interneurons in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex of non-human primate: Comparison study to mice and human, with focus on subthreshold intrinsic properties, Michelle Stephanie Jimenez-Sosa
The Subplate and Its Role in the GABA System in the Prefrontal Cortex, Gaeul Kyla Lee
Exploring the Role of Cannabidiol-Monoterpene Formulations in Modulating Anxiety Symptoms, Richard Leu
The Effect of Nitric Oxide on Microglia Function and Activity: Implications on Transient Receptor Potential Channels, Matthew J-E. Maksoud
Characterizing a Novel Mobile Game Battery Assessment: A Comparison of Performance-Based and Survey-Based Executive Functioning Instruments, Josephine A. Pham
Investigating Humor Processing in Parkinson's Disease, Margaret T.M. Prenger
The Impact of Levodopa Administration on Learning from Short-term and Long-term Action Consequences: a Paradigm Validation., Masood Rezaei
The Impact of Emotional Information on Task Performance in Unimodal vs. Cross-modal Paradigms, Emma K. Stewart
Early Markers of Dysfunction in Frontotemporal Dementia, Tamara P. Tavares
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Identifying neuroimaging and genetic correlates of delusions and hallucinations in Alzheimer’s disease, Juweiriya Ahmed
Differentiating the Substantia Nigra and Ventral Tegmental Area in Early-stage Parkinson's Disease Using Iron Imaging, Erind Alushaj
Executive dysfunction following a sport-related concussion is independent of task-based symptom burden, Naila Ayala Angumba
Multisensory responses in primary auditory cortex of the cat, Catherine Boucher
Neural Regions Affecting Female Aggression and Receptivity in Drosophila melanogaster, Brendan S. Charles
Improving Stimulus Realism: The effect of visual dimension on affective responding, Shannon Compton
Early Treatment Response in First Episode Psychosis: A 7-Tesla Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Study of Glutathione and Glutamate, Kara Dempster
Pattern Separation in the Ventral Visual Stream, Kayla Ferko
Using meditation to improve measures of attention in older adults, Sabrina Ford
Differential Thickening and Thinning of Auditory Cortex in Deaf Cats Revealed with Ultra-High-Field MRI, Stephen G. Gordon
Effect of ATRX Inactivation on Hippocampal Synaptic Plasticity in Mice, Radu Gugustea
Connectomic Analysis of Substantia Nigra Pars Compacta and Ventral Tegmental Area Projections to the Striatum and Cortex, Nicholas Handfield-Jones
The Neural Circuitry of Sensory Processing in Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, Sherain Harricharan
Neurodevelopmental Outcomes of Infantile Hydrocephalus: An fMRI Case Study, Ikhlas Ahmed Hashi
Resting State Network Dynamics Across Wakefulness and Sleep, Evan Houldin
Pupil size tracks semantic ambiguity as well as noise, Mason Kadem
Lysosomes Mediate Rab27b-Dependent Secretion of Beta-Amyloid, Shany Lahan
Role of cholinergic receptors in prefrontal activity of nonhuman primates during an oculomotor rule-based working memory task, Alex J. Major
Neural correlates of enhanced attentional filtering of distractors across vs. within visual hemifields in the lateral prefrontal cortex, Maryam Nouri Kadijani
Analyzing avian incubation with a computer algorithm, Tanya T. Shoot
Investigating the Role of Tp53INP1 and Tp53INP2 in Neuronal Autophagy and Mitophagy, Vidhyasree Shyam
Investigating the Relationship between Subcortical and Cortical Auditory Processing, Sonia Varma
Psychological stress modulates synaptic mechanisms for prostaglandin E2-mediated HPA axis activation, Meagan Wiederman
The Leucine-rich domain of RGNEF: a modifier of TDP-43 toxicity in Drosophila melanogaster., Benjamin Martin Withers
The Role of Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis in Depression-Relevant Reward-Related Behaviours, Katrina Zmavc
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Operant Conditioning of Human Upper-Limb Stretch Reflexes, Ehsan Abolhasani
Limbic System Involvement in Absence Seizures, Rukham Ajaz
Regulation of LPS-Induced Neuroinflammation by Targeting Microglia in vivo Using Chemogenetics, William Chett Binning
The Effects of Perceived Predation Threat on Stress Response and Memory in Birds, Chlöe S. N. Carter
Altered Brain Networks In Patients with Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Seizures (PNES) Using Ultra High Field MRI, Brittney Castrilli
Evaluating white matter changes and executive function in rat models of mediodorsal thalamic stroke and neuroinflammation, Jessica Garabon
Evaluating devices for the measurement of auditory-evoked fetal movement, Patrick Gatutsi
The Role of Familiarity in Rhythmic Timing and Beat Perception, Joshua Hoddinott
Learning Expands the Preplanning Horizon in Finger Sequence Tasks, Neda Kordjazi
Assessing Cognition In A Mouse Model Of Alzheimer’s Disease, Justin B. Mels
Investigating the role of endogenous ATF4 upregulation on neuronal glutathione level, Fatemeh Mirshafiei
Psychotropic Effects of Cannabis Components on the Mesolimbic Dopaminergic System, Christopher Norris
Cannabinoid Transmission in the Basolateral Amygdala Modulates Prefrontal Cortex and Ventral Hippocampal Activity, Brian J. Pereira
The effects of emotionally salient unimodal and multimodal stimuli on low-level visual perception, Stephen Raymond Pierzchajlo
Inviting hallucinatory percepts during speech-listening to detect cognitive changes in early psychosis, Ana-Bianca Popa
The Effect of Seizures (Afterdischarges) on Hippocampal Long-Term Potentiation, Vishaka Rajan
Role of STIP1 in TDP-43 Mediated Toxicity and Proteinopathy in Neurodegenerative Disorders, Abdul Razzaq
Comparative Study of Beat and Temporal Pattern Perception in a Songbird, Brendon Samuels
Synaptic Correlates For Stress Sensitization, Julia KJ Sunstrum
Identification of the Smallest Perceivable Interaural Time Differences, Sinthiya Thavam
Medial Geniculate Projections to Auditory and Visual Cortex in Hearing and Deaf Cats, Benjamin Trachtenberg
Characterizing the Cortical Contributions to Working Memory-Guided Obstacle Locomotion, Carmen Wong
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Movie-driven fMRI Reveals Network Asynchrony and Connectivity Alterations in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy, Alenka Bullen
Investigating Cognitive Control And Task Switching Using The Macaque Oculomotor System, Jason L. Chan
Dopamine-Dependent Task Performance over the Menstrual Cycle, Alexandra A. de la Rua
Dynamic Functional Connectivity Reveals Temporal Differences in Wake and Stage-2 Sleep, Mazen El-Baba
Brain networks in people after a first unprovoked seizure, Kristin M. Ikeda
Characterizing the Role of Adolescent Nicotine Exposure on the Mesocorticolimbic System and the Development of Mood and Anxiety Disorders, Christina E. Jobson
Navigating the "little brain": Comprehensive Mapping of Functional Organisation, Maedbh King
An investigation of propranolol as an agent for the experimental manipulation of interoception., Jane Evguenia Kouptsova
Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Dysfunction in a Mouse Model of Alzheimer's Disease, Wai-Jane V. Lee
Characterizing Tool-Selective Areas With Human Neuroimaging, Scott N. Macdonald
Neuronal Correlates for Neuroendocrine Habituation to Repeated Stress, Sara Matovic
Phosphorylation of tau protein at Thr175 is a toxic event associated with neurodegeneration, Alexander Moszczynski
Neurocircuits of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and its Dissociative Subtype, Andrew A. Nicholson
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging as an Assessment Tool in Critically Ill Patients, Loretta Norton
Function and Dysfunction in Distinct Facets of Empathy, Lindsay D. Oliver
Conditional Sox9 ablation 30 days after spinal cord injury: Testing the therapeutic value of a successful acute strategy to increase neuroplasticity in a model of chronic spinal cord injury, Natalie M. Ossowski
Comparing the influence of music enjoyment and beat perception ability on spatiotemporal gait parameters among healthy young and older adults, Brittany S. Roberts
The Effects of Alcohol on Visual Attention, Amber M. Robinson
Functional Connectivity in the Motor Network Largely Matures Before Motor Function, Jordynne L V Ropat
Opiate-Induced Neuroplastic Alterations to Dopamine Signaling in the Basolateral Amygdala-Prefrontal Cortical Pathway, Laura G. Rosen
A Naturalistic Paradigm to Probe Conscious Information Processing During Sleep, Max M. Silverbrook