... requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Institute of Health and Wellbeing & School of Psychology College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences University of Glasgow November 2014 ... UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW Neural Correlatesof Prospective Memory: an EEG and ICA approach Gabriela Paz Cruz San Martín Occupational Therapist Master in Neuroscience Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements ... during encoding and retrieval of prospective memory intentions (West, 2011) Several advantages ofEEG make it an attractive technique for the study of prospective memory EEG is particularly suitable...
... brain during REM sleep 60 Schematic representation of REM sleep 65 How sleep patterns change over our lifetime 77 Variation in sleep length 79 Autonomic activation in sleep 90 Sleep changes in ... the brain-activated phase ofsleep its name: REM or rapid eye movement sleep W h e n awakened at the time of intense clusters of rapid eye movements, 95 per cent of sleepers studied in labs report ... the result of a built-in m e c h a n i s m of brain activation that operates in all of us every night of our lives It is the goal of this chapter to explain how the brain activation ofsleep was...
... to offer a general overview of the neural correlatesof appreciation for artistic and aesthetic objects This is a very broad field that includes interesting studies addressing the brain basis of ... focuses mainly on the neural correlatesof visual aesthetic preference Despite the limited scope of the results produced within this line of research and the current absence of a solid grounding framework, ... neural correlatesof judging stimuli as beautiful compared to those of judging them as ugly, whereas Jacobsen et al (2006) designed their experiment to identify the neural correlatesof judging...
... original material Vocabulary size of the input set, equal to the number of unique words in the input Smaller vocabularies would be characteristic of easier sets Percentage of words used only once in ... background collection may be characteristic of highly noncohesive inputs consisting of unrelated documents Number of topic signature terms for the input set The idea of topic signature terms was introduced ... specifically, there are two possibilities for the distribution of a term t: either it is very indicative of the topic of cluster T , and appears more often in T than in documents from N T , or the term...
... Kikinis, MD, for access to the MRX software; to Barbara Siegman, REEGT, Mariahn Smith, REEGT, and Suzanne Hodgkin, REEGT, for recording and processing the QEEG data; to Valerie Gauche for supervising ... Karasawa A Quantitative EEGcorrelatesof normal aging in the elderly Clin Electroencephalogr 1997;28:160-165 71 Duffy FH, McAnulty GB, Albert MS Effects of age upon interhemispheric EEG coherence in ... coefficient of the independent variable to the dependent variable was smaller than the path coefficient of the me(REPRINTED) ARCH NEUROL / VOL 59, OCT 2002 1616 RESULTS EFFECTS OF AGE ON VOLUMES OF STRUCTURAL...
... either of difficulty falling asleep or maintaining sleep, or of poor quality ofsleep However, the presence of the complaint of unsatisfactory sleep is not sufficient for the diagnosis of insomnia ... in sleep clinics, and found that in 6.2 % of those individuals the sleep problem was primarily due to inadequate sleep hygiene, and sleep hygiene contributed to sleeping problems in 34.2 % of ... study of a large group of people, representative of seven European countries, about 11 % complained of nonrestorative sleep [40] The complaints concerning nonrestorative sleep are indicative of...
... monitored Of these eight females, three produced offspring during the study (Table 1) Seven out of 10 breeding attempts resulted in offspring for these three females (one out of three, three out of ... origin and year of birth, number of breeding attempts followed (with copulation confirmed), number of litters produced, number of mating seasons with behavioral data and number of breeding attempts ... with endocrine data Female Year born Origin Number of breeding attempts Number of litters produced Number of seasons with behavioral data Number of breeding attempts with endocrine data 52 54 56...
... nothing of the labor of headwork, to have a wonderfully easy life of it The schoolmaster is generally a man of some importance in the female circle of a rural neighborhood; being considered a kind of ... unworthy of a lad of spirit Fain would I pause to dwell upon the world of charms that burst upon the enraptured gaze of my hero, as he entered the state parlor of Van Tassel’s mansion Not those of ... bevy of buxom lasses, with their luxurious display of red and white; but the ample charms of a genuine Dutch country tea-table, in the sumptuous time of autumn Such heaped up platters of cakes of...
... 19 The EEGof stage nonREM sleep has most of its power in the slow frequencies, and the EEGof REM sleep has more of its power in faster frequencies If we compare the first bout of nonREM sleep ... architecture of human sleep is the same for nearly everyone What Is the Function of Sleep? • The function ofsleep qualifies as one of the great unanswered questions of science We have to assume that sleep ... consequences of personal sleep debt and America’s national sleep deficit, the course identifies the defining features ofsleep and provides a clear blueprint of the “architecture” ofsleep that...
... the basis of the functional inactivation of Tax-2 leading to the inhibition of HTLV-2 retrovirus replication Further studies of subcellular localization unveiled the co-localization of Tax-2 and ... distribution of Tax-2 molecules was analyzed in the presence and in the absence of CIITA In the absence of CIITA, Tax-2 localizes both and in the cytoplasm and in the nucleus of 293T cells often with ... et al.: Molecular and cellular correlatesof the CIITA-mediated inhibition of HTLV-2 Tax-2 transactivator function resulting in loss of viral replication Journal of Translational Medicine 2011...
... to be Measurement of distraction effects in dual-task EEG time series EEG epochs are extracted from the recorded EEG signals with 16-bit quantization, at the sampling rate of 500 Hz The data ... design of this study, and led the team to well finish it SAC participated in the design of the study, the acquisition of data, the analysis/interpretation of data, and the modification of paper ... testing of behavior data The response time of these two tasks (the driving deviation and the math equation) is analyzed to study the behavior of subjects in the experiments Using ANOVA (analysis of...
... Lack of understanding by my partner/family Lack of recognition by colleagues Lack of recognition by the public The attitude of my clients/customers The attitude of my superiors The attitude of ... Attitude of my colleagues/workmates H) Attitude of my superiors I) Attitude of my clients/customers J) Lack of recognition by the public K) Lack of recognition by colleagues L) Lack of understanding ... in Table The internal validity of this component was high, with a Cronbach's Alpha score of 0.887 when all Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology...
... the basis of the functional inactivation of Tax-2 leading to the inhibition of HTLV-2 retrovirus replication Further studies of subcellular localization unveiled the co-localization of Tax-2 and ... distribution of Tax-2 molecules was analyzed in the presence and in the absence of CIITA In the absence of CIITA, Tax-2 localizes both and in the cytoplasm and in the nucleus of 293T cells often with ... et al.: Molecular and cellular correlatesof the CIITA-mediated inhibition of HTLV-2 Tax-2 transactivator function resulting in loss of viral replication Journal of Translational Medicine 2011...
... Ethics Committee, Ministry of Health, and included items addressing knowledge of transmission, knowledge of risks Page of 10 (page number not for citation purposes) Journal of the International AIDS ... perceived risk of HIV) and the role of HIV testing on sex-related behaviors (condom use, number of sex partners) Methods Data Collection Data for these analyses were taken from the University of the ... the correlatesof HIV testing The statistical results of the hierarchical modeling provide insight into HIV testing among university students in Jamaica In the first submodel, perception of HIV...
... procedure of the visit and includes both an evaluation of cognitive status by means of the Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) [16] and an evaluation of frailty status according to the recent Study of ... out of 175], in which the prevalence of frail subjects according to the SOF criteria is expected to be very low, below 5% [31] Since our sample consisted of outpatients the expected prevalence of ... People's Quality of Life questionnaire; BADLs = Basic Activities of Daily Living; IADLs = Instrumental Activities of Daily Living; MMSE = Mini Mental State Examination; SOF = Study of Osteoporotic...
... scored the lowest of the 28 items, and positive feelings (Q5), dependence on Correlatesof the four QOL domains The results of multiple linear regression models to analyze predictors of the four QOL ... support and IADL were positive correlatesof environment domain QOL, both with standardized beta coefficients of 0.29 This model explained 23% of the variance of environment domain QOL Discussion ... one of the causes of this result In the present research, environment domain scored high, which may be the result of the successful reconstruction of the living facilities and environment of VHs...
... Page of Author details Geriatric Unit, Department of Critical Care, University of Florence, Italy Department of Metabolic Rehabilitation, San Giuseppe Hospital, Piancavallo, Italy 3Unit of Metabolic ... percentile of the population, was considered indicative of a clinically significant burden of obesity on HRQL The Medical Outcome Survey Short-Form 36 (SF-36) was used as a generic measure of HRQL, ... previous diagnosis of cancer were given points Weight history was defined at interview on the basis of body weight at the age of 20 years, age at first dieting and the number of times patients...
... put half of their brain to sleep or the whole thing Imagine a flock of ducks sleeping at the edge of a lake The birds at the periphery of the group will likely be sleeping with one-half of their ... to sleep, a condition that researchers call sleep drunkenness The final stage is REM sleep, so named because of the rapid movements of your eyes dancing against your eyelids In this type of sleep, ... crisis of the scholar: here in front of him was mounting evidence that how we sleep today is nothing like the sleepof our ancestors Yet saying that the whole of the industrialized world sleeps...
... presence of an abnormal N13 (upper limbs) as well as the prolongation of conduction time from lower limbs in some VD patients are suggestive of the presence of lesions in the dorsal structures of the ... The composition of the study sample, the size of groups as well as the mean and standard deviation of all the results in the various groups are shown in table A characteristic MRI of a patient with ... effect of the 'severity' or of the 'localization of the lesions', since more severely demented patients tended to have both cortical and subcortical lesions and vice versa However the use of covariates...