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The Use Of Current Steering During Subthalamic Deep Brain Stimulation To Alleviate Upper Limb Symptoms Of Parkinson's Disease, Shabna Iftikar Mohideen
The Use Of Current Steering During Subthalamic Deep Brain Stimulation To Alleviate Upper Limb Symptoms Of Parkinson's Disease, Shabna Iftikar Mohideen
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Subthalamic (STN) deep brain stimulation (DBS) is an established treatment to alleviate the appendicular motor symptoms of Parkinson's Disease (PD). Current steering during DBS allows the unequal fractionation of current between two electrodes on the lead, resulting in a non-spherical electrical field. It is hypothesized that the way the electrical field is shaped will affect a patient’s upper limb symptom alleviation. Seven PD patients who underwent bilateral STN-DBS were tested over four weeks post-operation. 16 current fractionation settings were tested each week at an amplitude that increased weekly. Optimal setting was defined as the setting that provided the best …
White Matter Inflammation And Executive Dysfunction: Implications For Alzheimer Disease And Vascular Cognitive Impairment, Alexander Levit
White Matter Inflammation And Executive Dysfunction: Implications For Alzheimer Disease And Vascular Cognitive Impairment, Alexander Levit
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White matter integrity is crucial to healthy executive function, the cognitive domain that enables functional independence. However, in the ageing brain, white matter is highly vulnerable. White matter inflammation increases with age and Alzheimer disease (AD), which disrupts the normal function of white matter. This may contribute to executive dysfunction, but the relationship between white matter inflammation and executive function has not been directly evaluated in ageing nor AD. White matter is also particularly vulnerable to cerebrovascular disease, corresponding with the common presentation of executive dysfunction in vascular cognitive impairment (VCI). Thus, white matter may be an important substrate by …
Limbic System Involvement In Absence Seizures, Rukham Ajaz
Limbic System Involvement In Absence Seizures, Rukham Ajaz
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Absence epilepsy is characterized by brief spells of absent stare and spike wave discharges (SWDs), generally believed to be generated by a thalamocortical network. Our lab showed that hippocampal neuronal firings were synchronous with SWDs in a gamma butyrolactone (GBL) model of absence epilepsy in rats (Arcaro et al., 2016). We hypothesize that, in a GBL model of absence seizures, 30-400 Hz oscillations in the spontaneous local field potentials (LFPs) in the hippocampus and other parts of limbic system (amygdala and nucleus accumbens) are phase modulated by SWDs, and this modulation is mediated through nucleus reuniens of midline thalamus (RE). …
The Brain-Heart Connection: Establishment Of A Novel Rodent Model Of Focal Insular Ischemic Stroke To Examine The Pathophysiology Of Stroke-Induced Heart Injury, Victoria Thorburn
The Brain-Heart Connection: Establishment Of A Novel Rodent Model Of Focal Insular Ischemic Stroke To Examine The Pathophysiology Of Stroke-Induced Heart Injury, Victoria Thorburn
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The neurological influence of ischemic stroke in the generation of stroke-induced heart injury (SIHI) has been acknowledged for several years. However, pathophysiological mechanisms remain uncertain. Clinically, it is hypothesized that stroke involving the insular cortex (IC) initiates SIHI, since the IC controls autonomic regulation of cardiovascular function. Yet, given the high prevalence of shared risk factors between ischemic stroke and cardiovascular disorders, mechanistic conclusions from clinical studies are largely speculative. We therefore sought to establish a novel rodent model of focal insular ischemic stroke, used to evaluate chronic outcomes of SIHI. Focal ischemic stroke was induced into the right or …
Evaluating White Matter Changes And Executive Function In Rat Models Of Mediodorsal Thalamic Stroke And Neuroinflammation, Jessica Garabon
Evaluating White Matter Changes And Executive Function In Rat Models Of Mediodorsal Thalamic Stroke And Neuroinflammation, Jessica Garabon
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Recent literature has supported a relationship between vascular disease and its role in the progression of cognitive impairment. Previous studies have demonstrated that white matter inflammation (WMI) in the brain is a common pathological outcome following stroke. Moreover, WMI has been shown to be the strongest predictor of cognitive decline following stroke. Finally, previous work in our lab has demonstrated, using a rodent model of striatal stroke, that WMI is correlated with post-stroke cognitive impairment. The current study aimed to further investigate the role of WMI in post-stroke cognitive impairment by utilizing a mediodorsal thalamic (MD) stroke model in the …
Role Of The Dorsal Striatum In Learning And Decision Making, Nole M. Hiebert
Role Of The Dorsal Striatum In Learning And Decision Making, Nole M. Hiebert
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The striatum, the input region of the basal ganglia, has been shown to mediate many cognitive functions. The striatum itself can be functionally segregated into dorsal (DS) and ventral striatum (VS). For more than 60 years, DS has been reported to mediate stimulus-response learning, though evidence has been accruing pointing to a role in decision making. These literatures have been growing independently and an aim of this thesis was to bridge these two bodies of knowledge. We directly investigated the role of DS in stimulus-response learning versus decision making using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in patients with Parkinson’s disease …