Browsing by Subject "Neuroscience"
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APOE4-mediated amyloid-β pathology depends on its neuronal receptor LRP1.
(The Journal of clinical investigation, 2019-02-11)Carrying the ε4 allele of the APOE gene encoding apolipoprotein E (APOE4) markedly increases the risk for late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD), in which APOE4 exacerbates the brain accumulation and subsequent deposition of ... -
Internal vs. External Attention and the Neurocognitive Processes of Subsequent Memory
(2018-04-25)The capacity to store large amounts of information is increasingly relevant in today’s data-saturated society. Two subtypes of our attentional mechanisms are known as internal and external attention, and are respectively ... -
Investigating Contemplative Christian Spirituality as Christian Formation through a Process Hermeneutic: an analysis of History, Evolution, and Neuroscience in Christian Meditation
(2020)“Investigating Contemplative Christian Spirituality as Christian Formation through a Process Hermeneutic: an analysis of History, Evolution, and Neuroscience in Christian Meditation” argues that a contemplative approach ... -
Investigating Contemplative Christian Spirituality as Christian Formation through a Process Hermeneutic: an analysis of History, Evolution, and Neuroscience in Christian Meditation
(2020)“Investigating Contemplative Christian Spirituality as Christian Formation through a Process Hermeneutic: an analysis of History, Evolution, and Neuroscience in Christian Meditation” argues that a contemplative approach ... -
Investigating the Histopathology and Co-prevalence of Age-related Macular Degeneration and Alzheimer's Disease
(2017-05-08)PURPOSE: To investigate the parallels between age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and Alzheimer’s disease (AD) by 1) characterizing the distribution of macrophages in the retina and choroid of human post-mortem eyes ... -
L'Épilepsie comme "crise" de la conscience: Perspectives narratives, philosophiques, et neuroscientifiques
(2019-04-16)“Each seizure is like a sort of hemorrhage of innervation. The center of image formation in my brain suffers a seminal leak, a hundred thousand images erupt at once, in visual fireworks. There is an atrocious clenching of ... -
Making Sense of Normative Functions and Information in Neurobiological Systems
(2012)In this thesis, I take up two important issues for understanding neurobiological systems: normative functions and information. After introducing the topic and my methodology in chapters 1 and 2, chapter 3 contains an extended ... -
Object and spatial subsystems in mental imagery : behavioral investigations
(1994)Recent evidence indicates that mental imagery comprises independent object and spatial subsystems. The experiments reported here are behavioral studies of these subsystems. Experiments 1 and 2 used the selective interference ... -
Subjective duration as a signature of coding efficiency: Emerging links among stimulus repetition, predictive coding, and cortical GABA levels
(Timing & Time Perception Reviews, 2014-12-01)Immediate repetition of a stimulus reduces its apparent duration relative to a novel item. Recent work indicates that this may reflect suppressed cortical responses to repeated stimuli, arising from neural adaptation and/or ... -
To Pernambuco with Love for Wind Symphony; String Quartet No. 1; Maco Light for Bass Clarinet and Prerecorded Electronics; and Educating for Composition Creativity
(2019)The structure of this dissertation comprises an introduction and four chapters, which contain three original musical compositions and one article. The first composition is a piece for wind symphony, the second one works ...
