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Description:: Episodic memory provides a means by which we are able to reflect on the past, make decisions about the future, and form a learned identity. Even subtle changes to our memory can have a detrimental impact on our daily lives. Memory declines as we age, and clinically salient impairment is...
Keyword:: aging, hippocampus, transcranial magnetic stimulation, precision, recollection, and human memory
Subject:: Cognitive psychology, Aging, and Neurosciences
Creator:: Nilakantan, Aneesha S
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2018-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_674620 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14737

Description:: During interactions with our environment we must incorporate information about the mechanical properties of obstacles into our motor actions. Fundamental to these behaviors is the ability to simultaneously control movements of the hand while regulating the interaction forces that arise from contact with the environment. Although the neural control of...
Keyword:: haptics, transcranial magnetic stimulation, motor learning, computational neuroscience, and psychophysics
Subject:: Biomedical Engineering
Creator:: Vikram Singh Chib
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 08/28/2018
Date Modified:: 08/28/2018
Date Created:: 2007-12-03
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: The objective of this study was to determine the relationship between descending motor pathway reorganization and abnormal coordination, defined as a reduced set of muscle coactivation patterns between shoulder and elbow muscles in hemiparetic chronic stroke subjects, using transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). Specifically, we wanted to 1) determine the relationship...
Keyword:: reorganization, muscle, transcranial magnetic stimulation, proximal, cortex, and TMS
Subject:: Neuroscience Institute Graduate Program
Creator:: Susan Schwerin
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 05/07/2018
Date Modified:: 05/07/2018
Date Created:: 2006-12-07
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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