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Filtering by: 2024-06-24 Keyword Neuroscience Resource type Dissertation Subject Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (NUIN)

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Description:: A central question in neuroscience is how the brain plans movements. Here, I apply neural data analysis and machine learning methods to better understand both eye and arm movement planning, in particular focusing on naturalistic settings. First, I built encoding models to investigate the factors that led to neural activity...
Keyword:: Frontal Eye Field, Generalized Linear Model, Saccade, Neuroscience, Premotor Cortex, and Machine Learning
Subject:: Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (NUIN)
Creator:: Joshua I Glaser
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 02/22/2019
Date Modified:: 02/22/2019
Date Created:: 2018-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is characterized by progressive motoneuron loss. Autopsy from thoracic spinal tissues of sALS patients revealed a significant loss of large motoneurons while medium and small motoneurons were relatively unaffected. Using two-photon microscopy, we observed a soma hypertrophy of neonatal motoneurons in mice overexpressing mutant human G93A-superoxide...
Keyword:: Accounting and Neuroscience
Subject:: Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (NUIN)
Creator:: Su-Wei Kuo
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 02/27/2018
Date Modified:: 02/27/2018
Date Created:: 2017-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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