autism spectrum disorder (asd) is a mental condition, present from early childhood, characterized by great difficulty in communicating and forming relationships with others and using language. in the last four decades many studies have shown that immune responses in different regions of brain play an important role in asd pathogenicity. a conservative estimate based on the research suggests tha...

using tidal potential, the effect of tide on the gravity field, crustal deformation due to tidal force, and gravity variations resulted from the crustal deformation are presented. tidal potential is divided into constant and periodic (diurnal and semi-diurnal) constituents, and for each constituents crustal displacements in radial, south-north, and east-west directions are computed. the aforeme...

Neuromodulations are an important component of extracellular electrical potentials (EEP), such as the Electroencephalogram (EEG), Electrocorticogram (ECoG) and Local Field Potentials (LFP). This spatially temporal organized multi-frequency transient (phasic) activity reflects the multiscale spatiotemporal synchronization of neuronal populations in response to external stimuli or internal physio...

Purpose: To study recordings of oscillatory potentials (OPs) of the electroretinogram (ERG) in diabetic eyes that have no visible fundus alterations, to ascertain whether changes in sensitivity are evident when compared with recordings from age-matched controls. Methods: OPs of the ERG were measured from 68 eyes of 34 patients with diabetes without retinopathy and from 30 eyes of 15 normal subj...

NAD is an essential metabolite that exists in NAD(+) or NADH form in all living cells. Despite its critical roles in regulating mitochondrial energy production through the NAD(+)/NADH redox state and modulating cellular signaling processes through the activity of the NAD(+)-dependent enzymes, the method for quantifying intracellular NAD contents and redox state is limited to a few in vitro or e...

– We study the aging of a colloidal glass, which is obtained for extremely low volume fractions due to strong electrostatic repulsions, leading to the formation of a “Wigner glass”. During the aging, a new crossover between a complete and incomplete decay of the correlation function is observed, accompanied by an increase in the non-ergodicity parameter. The dynamics can be described as a cage-...

The dielectric response of graded composites having general power-law-graded cylindrical inclusions under a uniform applied electric field is investigated. The dielectric profile of the cylindrical inclusions is modeled by the equation i r =c b+r k where r is the radius of the cylindrical inclusions and c , b and k are parameters . Analytical solutions for the local electrical potentials are de...

Effects of expectancy and agency on the feedback-related negativity" (2014). Graduate Theses and Dissertations. 2014 ii TABLE OF CONTENTS Page ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS iii ABSTRACT iv CHAPTER 1 BACKGROUND 1 Introduction 1 FRN: History and Theory 3 Previous Research from Our Lab 11 Theoretical Justification 14 CHAPTER 2 EXPERIMENT 1 15 Hypothesis 15 Introduction 15 Method 16 Results 20 Discussion 24 CHA...

The existence of neurodegeneration is a debated issue in schizophrenia research. The P300 component of event-related electrical potentials (ERP) has been related to the different degree of damage to gray and white matter. This study explores the possible relationship between P300 amplitude and/or latency and the existence of degenerative processes in schizophrenia, by assessing its correlation ...

PURPOSE To investigate whether the pattern reversal visual evoked potential can be useful in the diagnosis and management of macular hole patients. METHODS The pattern reversal visual evoked potential was measured in 66 patients with a macular hole and in 43 healthy control subjects. Check sizes of 34', 17' and 10' were applied. RESULTS Results showed that, for the check sizes of 34', 17' a...