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Predictive Modeling Of Adolescent Cannabis Use From Multimodal Data, Philip Spechler
Predictive Modeling Of Adolescent Cannabis Use From Multimodal Data, Philip Spechler
Graduate College Dissertations and Theses
Predicting teenage drug use is key to understanding the etiology of substance abuse. However, classic predictive modeling procedures are prone to overfitting and fail to generalize to independent observations. To mitigate these concerns, cross-validated logistic regression with elastic-net regularization was used to predict cannabis use by age 16 from a large sample of fourteen year olds (N=1,319). High-dimensional data (p = 2,413) including parent and child psychometric data, child structural and functional MRI data, and genetic data (candidate single-nucleotide polymorphisms, "SNPs") collected at age 14 were used to predict the initiation of cannabis use (minimum six occasions) by age 16. …
Imaging Pain And Brain Plasticity: A Longitudinal Structural Imaging Study, James Hart Bishop
Imaging Pain And Brain Plasticity: A Longitudinal Structural Imaging Study, James Hart Bishop
Graduate College Dissertations and Theses
Chronic musculoskeletal pain is a leading cause of disability worldwide yet the mechanisms of chronification and neural responses to effective treatment remain elusive. Non-invasive imaging techniques are useful for investigating brain alterations associated with health and disease. Thus the overall goal of this dissertation was to investigate the white (WM) and grey matter (GM) structural differences in patients with musculoskeletal pain before and after psychotherapeutic intervention: cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). To aid in the interpretation of clinical findings, we used a novel porcine model of low back pain-like pathophysiology and developed a post-mortem, in situ, neuroimaging approach to facilitate translational …