This collection contains theses and dissertations from the Department of Neuroscience, collected from the Scholarship@Western Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
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
Understanding the Relationship between Perception and Production of the Beat, Taylor W. Parrott
Exploring the neural basis of top-down guided action in macaque monkeys, Jessica M. Phillips
Are Visual Texture-selective Areas Recruited During Haptic Texture Discrimination?, Samantha K. Podrebarac
Cognitive Roles of Anterior and Posterior Pedunculopontine Tegmentum Subregions, Jordan C. Robinson
Reaching for the light: The prioritization of conspicuous visual stimuli for reflexive target-directed reaching, Daniel K. Wood
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Synaptic and Systems Memory Consolidation in the Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus), Matthew Barrett
Toward a Functional Characterization of Cognitive Control Networks, Frederick Ezekiel
Altered Auditory Feedback Causing Changes in the Vowel Production of Children with Specific Language Impairment, Emily Michaela Holmes
Differential Effects of Macaque Dorsolateral Prefrontal Deactivations During Uncued and Cued Role Conditions, Sabeeha Hussein
Brain connectivity studied by fMRI: homologous network organization in the rat, monkey, and human, R. Matthew Hutchison
The Importance of Situational Information for Abstract Concepts, Lisa M. King
Top-Down Modulation of Category Specific Extrastriate Cortex in a Task-Switching Paradigm, Katie Knapp
An Investigation of the Neural Mechanism by which the Prefrontal Cortex Facilitates Anti-saccade Task Performance, Michael J. Koval
Identification of a Molecular Opiate-Addiction Memory Switch in the Basolateral Amygdala, Danika C.A. Lyons
fMRI reveals the neural correlates of real and pantomimed tool use in humans, Joseph Umberto Paciocco
Effect of Menstrual Cycle Related Estrogen Fluctuations on Working Memory, Mia Segal
Social Episodic-Like Memory in the Black-Capped Chickadee (Poecile Atricapillus), Alisha A. Wiechers
On sensorimotor function and the relationship between proprioception and motor learning, Jeremy D. Wong
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Contributions of Signal-detection Mechanisms and Semantic Memory Representations to Famous Name Recognition, Ben P. Bowles
Contextual control of orienting eye-head gaze shifts in the monkey, Brendan B. Chapman
Decoding motor intentions from human brain activity, Jason P. Gallivan
Fluid Percussion Injury in the Rat as an Animal Model of Concussion: Cumulative Effects of Repeated Concussion and its Treatment by Anti-CD11d Antibody, Sandy RC Shultz
Sexual Differentiation in the Auditory System: An Investigation into Prenatal and Adult Sex Steroid Influences on Otoacoustic Emissions, Adrian W.K. Snihur
Septal Modulation of the Hippocampus, Siew Kian Tai
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Perception meets action: fMRI and behavioural investigations of human tool use, Kenneth F. Valyear