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Description:: Vertebrate brains evolved to facilitate a diverse array of behaviors and internal cognitive processes. Theories of neural function have proposed that neural computation is organized within populations or ensembles of neurons. Here, we identify ensembles of neurons in the striatum, the main input nucleus of the basal ganglia, in which...
Keyword:: Wireless Optogenetics, Basal Ganglia, Striatum, Dopamine, Neural Ensemble, and Population Activity
Subject:: Neurosciences
Creator:: Minkowicz, Samuel
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 05/31/2023
Date Created:: 2023-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16515 and etdadmin_upload_983540

Description:: Dopamine neurons are characterized by their response to unexpected rewards, but some also fire during movement and in response to aversive stimuli. Dopamine neuron diversity has also been observed based on their genetic expression profiles, suggesting that different functions might map onto such genetic subtypes. However, this has not been...
Keyword:: Subtypes, Striatum, Dopamine, and SNc
Subject:: Neurosciences
Creator:: Azcorra, Maite
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/16/2023
Date Created:: 2022-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16371 and etdadmin_upload_947134

Description:: Habits are actions taken without conscious consideration of a goal. The distinction between habits and conscious, goal-directed actions has been made for millennia. Only comparatively recently, however, have results from biological psychiatry and neuroscience begun to shed light on the existence of separable neural circuits that underlie our intuitive perception...
Keyword:: Basal Ganglia, Striatum, and Kainate Receptor
Subject:: Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (NUIN)
Creator:: John J. Marshall
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 10/28/2018
Date Modified:: 10/28/2018
Date Created:: 2017-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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