This collection contains theses and dissertations from the Department of Neuroscience, collected from the Scholarship@Western Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Data-driven Neuroanatomical Subtypes in Various Stages of Schizophrenia: Linking cortical thickness, glutamate, and language functioning, Liangbing Liang
Prognostic indicators of functional outcome in first episode psychosis: Linguistic, Anatomical, and Metabolic Predictors of Early Social and Vocational Outcome, Michael L. MacKinley
Durability of Motor Learning by Observation, Natalia Mangos
The Express Sensorimotor Response Selects Visual Features Based On Instruction, David Youhanna Mekhaiel
Hearing Loss and Cognition: Using Behavioural Paradigms to Uncover the Learning Strategy Changes Following Noise-Induced Hearing Loss in Rodents, Benjamin Joseph Patrick
Associations Between Testosterone, Androgen Receptor Polymorphism, And Mood, Christopher Purkis
Myeloarchitectonic Maps of Cat Auditory Cortex, Austin Robertson
Prefrontal coding of naturalistic working memory: Mechanisms during normal maintenance and modelled disease, Megan P. Roussy
The Effect of Propionic Acid on the Habituation to Social and Non-social Odour Cues in Adult Male Rats, Cashmeira-Dove P. Tyson
Investigating the Effect of Intratumoral Modulation Therapy on Breast Cancer Brain Metastases, Mila Uzelac
The Role of the Hippocampus in Pattern Separation and Statistical Learning, Helena Shizhe Wang
Neural correlates of familiarity across time scales and their involvement in explicit memory decisions, Haopei Yang
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Brain Representations of Dexterous Hand Control: Investigating the Functional Organization of Individuated Finger Movements and Somatosensory Integration, Spencer Arbuckle
Brain Signatures of Human Skill Learning: From Single Movements to Movement Sequences, Eva Berlot
The Functional and Structural Consequences of Aberrant Microglial Activity in Major Depressive Disorder, Jasmine D. Cakmak
Tracking the Mechanisms of Short-Term Motor Adaptation within the Framework of a Two-State Model, Susan K. Coltman
Empathic Processing in Patients with Mild-to-Moderate Stroke, Hilary Dagg
Developmental neurogenesis and myelination of songbird brains: sex differences, hormones and social effects, Adriana Diez
Fruitless (fru) and the Neural System of Rejection Behaviours in Female Drosophila melanogaster, Omar El-Deeb
The effects of resistance training on cognition and brain health in older adults at risk for diabetes: A pilot feasibility study, Joyla Furlano
Dopaminergic Modulation of a Fast Visuomotor Pathway in Parkinson's Disease, Madeline C. Gilchrist
Statistical summary representations are perceived but not grasped., Maryam Hamidi
Understanding Neural Signals related to Speech Processing in Humans During Sleep, Ashwin Harimohan
Characterizing the Anxiolytic Potential and Synergistic Efficacy of Cannabidiol and d-limonene, Nathashi Jayawardena
A Behavioral Study on the Adult Marmoset Interference Control in Spatial Working Memory, Mohadese Khosravi Najafabadi
'The Memory of All That': The Effects of Music on Paradoxical Lucidity in Older Adults, Sarah Klapman
Investigation of the Hsp90 co-chaperone, STI1, in cellular resilience and neurodegenerative diseases, Rachel E. Lackie
Assessing Cognitive Function in a Mouse Model of Synucleinopathy, Mei Peng Lim
Blocking PirB Function Increases Dendritic Spine Density in the Prefrontal Cortex of Adult Rats, Hannah J. MacNeil
Examining the role of Chloride Homeostasis and PGE2 signaling in the Neuroendocrine stress response to inflammation, Samuel A. Mestern
Neural substrates of reward, error, and effort processing underlying adaptive motor behaviour, Dimitrios J. Palidis
Modifications in the representation and control of finger movement sequences with learning, Nicola Popp
Does aberrant connectivity underlie the experience of misophonia?, Kate Raymond
Is Motor Excitability Modulated by Isochronous Rhythms?, Syed Z. Raza
Microstructural Alterations in Grey and White Matter Following Early-Onset Deafness in the Cat, Alessandra Sacco
Functional Loss of Cntnap2 in the Rat Leads to Autism-related Alterations in Behaviour and Auditory Processing, Kaela Elizabeth Scott
The Expression of Guilt, Chloe A. Stewart
The Role of Neuronal Nitric Oxide Synthase in Regulating Cerebellar Network Formation Across Murine Development, Vasiliki Tellios
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