This collection contains theses and dissertations from the Department of Neuroscience, collected from the Scholarship@Western Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
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
Investigating the Protective Effects of Telomerase Reverse Transcriptase on Neuronal Metabolism and Resistance to Amyloid-beta, Olivia Singh
Pore-Lining Residues and Intracellular Magnesium Concentration Influence Connexin50 Gap Junction Unitary Channel Conductance, Mary Grace M. Tejada
Early life immune and physical stress directly influences anxiety-like behaviour in adolescent rats: examining sex differences, Jordan M. Ward
Mechanisms involved in the assessment of cumulative long-term familiarity of object concepts: An ERP study, Haopei Yang
The Influence of Estrogen on Sex Differences in Chemotherapy-Induced Nausea and Vomiting (CINV), Danna L. Zevy
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Cannabinoid CB1 Transmission in the Mesolimbic Reward Pathway, Tasha Ahmad
Role of Anterior Cingulate Cortex in Saccade Control, Sahand Babapoor-Farrokhran
Social Factors Modulate Toxin (LICL)-Induced Conditioned Disgust Responses in Male Rats, Nathalie Boulet
The Neural Mechanisms of Musical Rhythm Processing: Cross-Cultural Differences and the Stages of Beat Perception, Daniel J. Cameron
Cholinergic Mechanisms Regulating Cognitive Function and RNA Metabolism, Benjamin Kolisnyk
Assessing the impact of emotion in dual pathway models of sensory processing., James H. Kryklywy
Is Online Motor Control Really Impaired In Parkinson's Disease?, Kate E. Merritt
Contribution of the Primate Frontal Cortex to Eye Movements and Neuronal Activity in the Superior Colliculus, Tyler R. Peel
Measuring engagement of the executive control network from 3 months of age, Michelle Tran
A Rat Model of Cognitive Bias and the Effect of Acute Corticosterone, Kai Wang
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Contribution of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex to attentional and mnemonic processes in visual search, Brandon Belbeck
Developing a contrast agent for the in vivo detection of apoptosis, Mary R. Cobb
Serotonergic System and Gait: Dorsal Raphe Nucleus as a Control System for Gait, Nahal Farhani
Resting-state Functional Network Disruptions in a Rodent Model of Mesial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy (TLE), Ravnoor Singh Gill
Deep brain stimulation and its effects on Parkinson disease spatiotemporal gait parameters., Greydon Gilmore
Neural Correlates of Spontaneous BOLD Fluctuations: A Simultaneous LFP-fMRI Investigation In The Non-human Primate, Masoomeh Hashemi
Engineered Cx26 Variant Established Functional Heterotypic Cx26/Cx43 and Cx26/Cx40 Gap Junction Channels, Levent Berk Karademir
Exploring the Structural and Functional Organization of the Dorsal Zone of Auditory Cortex in Hearing and Deafness, Melanie A. Kok
Muscarinic attenuation of mnemonic rule representation in macaque dorsolateral prefrontal cortex during a pro- and anti-saccade task, Alex J. Major
Determining Attention Deficits In Mouse Models Of Alzheimer’s Disease Using Touchscreen Systems, Talal Masood
Abnormal Hippocampal Activation In Freely Behaving Mice Deficient For The Vesicular Acetylcholine Transporter, Shahin Moallem
Quantifying the Effects of Systematic STN-DBS Programming on Rest and Postural Tremor in Idiopathic Parkinson Disease Patients, Kristina Ognjanovic
Non-Canonical Activation of Nrf2 by Dimercaptopropanol as a Treatment for Huntington's Disease, Margaret Lauren Tindale
A Kinematic Analysis of Visual and Haptic Contributions to Precision Grasping in a Patient With Visual Form Agnosia and in Normally-Sighted Populations, Robert Whitwell
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Mindfulness Meditation versus EEG-Alpha Neurofeedback: The Role of EEG-Alpha Enhancement in Attentional Control, Theodore Chow
Self-Referential Processing: An Investigation of the Mediating Role of Alpha Power, Tanaz Javan
Seeing with sound: Investigating the behavioural applications and neural correlates of human echolocation, Jennifer L. Milne
Differential effects of early-life seizures on neuronal inhibition in the hippocampus of seizure-prone and seizure-resistant rats, Amir Abbas Mohseni Zonoozi
Investigating the Multiple Hit hypothesis of Parkinson disease using transgenic LRRK2-R1441G rats, Komal T. Shaikh
The Neural Correlates of Guilt and Restitution During a Social Decision Making Task, Ambrose Ty
Revisiting working memory: Are domain, process and global models mutually exclusive, nested or orthogonal?, Jeffrey P. Wong
Dissociating the Psychoactive Effects of Distinct Cannabis Compounds in the Mesocorticolimbic Circuitry, Jordan S. Zunder
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
The Hippocampus Participates in a Pharmacological Rat Model of Absence Seizures, Justin Andrew Arcaro
Neural circuits involved in mental arithmetic: Evidence from Customized Arithmetic Training, Christian Battista
Investigation of Auditory Encoding and the Use of Auditory Feedback During Speech Production, Laura E. Beamish
Investigating Immersive Augmented Reality as a Rehabilitation Tool for Parkinson disease, Danielle M. Bell Boucher
Does incremental training improve motor learning?, Alvin Chin
Organization of Human Auditory Cortex: Responses to Frequency Modulated Sounds, Diedre D. Desouza
Testing the Template Hypothesis of Vocal Learning in Songbirds., Adriana Diez
Cortical Cannabinoid Modulation of Subcortical Dopamine Activity: Implications for Emotional Processing, Brittany Draycott
Non-Neuronal Acetylcholine Secretion by Neonatal Murine Cardiomyocytes, William Fields
The effects of pre- and postnatal administration of propionic acid and lipopolysaccharide on the behaviour of adolescent male and female rats, Kelly A. Foley
The effects of a single acute and repeated intracerebroventricular infusions of propionic acid on locomotor activity and neuroinflammation in rats, Stacey Holbrook
A P300 Based Cognitive Assessment Battery for Severely Motor-impaired and Overtly Non-responsive Patients, Aaron M. Kirschner
Taking Tone into Account: Cognitive Neuroscientific Investigations of Mandarin Chinese Spoken Word Processing, Jeffrey G. Malins
The Role of Kisspeptin and KNDy Cells in the Reproductive Neuroendocrine System, Christina M. Merkley
Parkinson's Patients' Upper and Lower Limb Motor Impairments Differentially Influence Action Verb Processing, Peter Nguyen
Representation of faces in perirhinal cortex, Edward B. O'Neil