782 research outputs found

    Motherhood to Motherhoods: Ideologies of the “Feminine”

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    2023-2024 Catalog

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    The 2023-2024 Governors State University Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog is a comprehensive listing of current information regarding:Degree RequirementsCourse OfferingsUndergraduate and Graduate Rules and Regulation

    Undergraduate Catalog of Studies, 2022-2023

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    2023-2024 Graduate School Catalog

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    You and your peers represent more than 67 countries and your shared scholarship spans 140 programs - from business administration and biomedical engineering to history, horticulture, musical performance, marine science, and more. Your ideas and interests will inform public health, create opportunities for art and innovation, contribute to the greater good, and positively impact economic development in Maine and beyond

    Relationship between Anxiety and Freezing of Gait

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    Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative and a large percentage of PD patients develop freezing of gait (FOG) leading to an overall reduced quality of life. The overarching aim of the thesis is to investigate the relationship between anxiety and freezing of gait, to extend current research on this topic and produce findings that could facilitate more adequate treatment methods for this symptom. The first study validated the seated functional MRI-compatible version of the walking threat paradigm that was previously found to induce anxiety and FOG. This would enable future studies to examine the neural correlates behind anxiety-induced freezing of gait. The second study investigated the effect of anxiety on the utilisation of body-related visual feedback in the form of an avatar in the virtual environment to improve FOG. The third study investigated the effects of Levodopa on the fronto-striato-limbic circuitry in PD Freezers at rest in their ‘ON’ and ‘OFF’ dopaminergic state. Findings suggest that the VR seated threat paradigm is an adequate behavioural surrogate for the VR walking threat paradigm, eliciting comparable amounts of anxiety and freezing of gait as the walking version. Anxiety was also found to interfere with the utilisation of sensory feedback to improve FOG, where in highly threatening situations Freezers lack the capacity to process visual feedback for gait. Finally, dopaminergic medication was also found to partially modulate the frontoparietal-limbic-striatal circuitry in PD Freezers, where baseline anxiety levels influence the impact of Levodopa on the frontoparietal (FPN)- limbic connectivity, and the FPN-putamen connectivity. In conclusion, the current thesis suggests that anxiety contributes to freezing of gait, which may present a barrier to treatment and could be a key factor in the heterogeneity observed in response to medication and sensory cueing

    Individualisation of transcranial electric stimulation to improve motor function after stroke:Current challenges and future perspective

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    Transcranial electric stimulation (tES) is a non-invasive brain stimulation technique that could potentially improve motor rehabilitation after stroke. However, the effects of tES are in general stronger in healthy individuals compared to people with stroke. Interindividual variability in brain structure and function due to stroke potentially explain this difference in effects. This thesis describes the development of methods to facilitate the individualisation of tES in people with stroke and identifies objective neurophysiological correlates of motor learning that could potentially help to monitor the response to tES.In chapter 2, EEG correlates of explicit motor task learning were derived in healthy, young participants. Chapter 3 investigated the effects of 3 different tDCS configurations (sham, targeting contralateral M1 and targeting the full resting motor network) on corticospinal excitability. Both conventional and motor network tDCS did not increase corticospinal excitability relative to sham stimulation. Chapter 4 describes methods to create head models of people with stroke and assesses the effects of stroke lesions on the electric fields within stimulation targets. Chapter 5 describes a method to experimentally determine the electric conductivity of the stroke lesion. Finally, Chapter 6 analyses the electric fields generated by conventional tDCS in people with stroke and age-matched controls. It is shown that the one-size-fits-all approach results in more variable electric fields in people with stroke compared to controls. Optimisation of the electrode positions to maximise the electric field in stimulation targets increases the electric fields in people with stroke to the same level as found in healthy controls.This thesis shows anatomical and motor function variability exists between people with stroke due to differences in lesion characteristics. While there are several opportunities to individualise tES, more research is needed to investigate if this improves the effects of tES. As such, clinical implementation of tES seems unrealistic in the foreseeable future.<br/

    Talk Box in Music Therapy with Speech and Language Impairments Resulting From Tracheostomy: A Critical Review of the Literature

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    Tracheostomy patients struggle with one of the most significant and essential components to the human identity, that is, communication. When a person’s communication is obstructed, access to their intangible, inner world is also severed – leaving their thoughts, feelings, and memories, all of which are core to the human experience, unshared. Speech assistance for tracheostomy patients currently includes above cuff vocalization efforts using one-way speaking valves, augmentative and alternative communication methods such as speech generating devices and the electrolarynx. This thesis will introduce and discuss a musical instrument effect called the talk box as an integration of music therapy techniques that address speech and language deficiencies in tracheostomy patients. A talk box consists of a mini speaker amplifier with an input for instruments and an output where a plastic tube can be attached. The distal end of the plastic tube is placed in a speaker’s mouth where they can use their articulators to form consonant and vowel shapes. The resulting effect amplifies the instrument’s output into the speaker’s mouth where words or phrases can be spoken or sung. Using an instrument with the talk box allows for a real-time adjustment of pitch, quality, loudness, timbre, and tempo. A large part of music therapy incorporates the use of music and instruments to help a patient with non-musical goals. The talk box could provide tracheostomy patients with a non-invasive and non-permanent approach to speaking and singing, as well as an opportunity to reclaim a missing part of their identity that cannot be replaced or replicated

    Proyecto Docente e Investigador

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    PROYECTO DOCENTE E INVESTIGADOR Catedráticos de Universidad Área de Ciencia de la Computación e Inteligencia Artificial Universidad de Valladolid 19 de Mayo de 2023 David Escudero Manceb

    The mad manifesto

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    The “mad manifesto” project is a multidisciplinary mediated investigation into the circumstances by which mad (mentally ill, neurodivergent) or disabled (disclosed, undisclosed) students faced far more precarious circumstances with inadequate support models while attending North American universities during the pandemic teaching era (2020-2023). Using a combination of “emergency remote teaching” archival materials such as national student datasets, universal design for learning (UDL) training models, digital classroom teaching experiments, university budgetary releases, educational technology coursewares, and lived experience expertise, this dissertation carefully retells the story of “accessibility” as it transpired in disabling classroom containers trapped within intentionally underprepared crisis superstructures. Using rhetorical models derived from critical disability studies, mad studies, social work practice, and health humanities, it then suggests radically collaborative UDL teaching practices that may better pre-empt the dynamic needs of dis/abled students whose needs remain direly underserviced. The manifesto leaves the reader with discrete calls to action that foster more critical performances of intersectionally inclusive UDL classrooms for North American mad students, which it calls “mad-positive” facilitation techniques: 1. Seek to untie the bond that regards the digital divide and access as synonyms. 2. UDL practice requires an environment shift that prioritizes change potential. 3. Advocate against the usage of UDL as a for-all keystone of accessibility. 4. Refuse or reduce the use of technologies whose primary mandate is dataveillance. 5. Remind students and allies that university space is a non-neutral affective container. 6. Operationalize the tracking of student suicides on your home campus. 7. Seek out physical & affectual ways that your campus is harming social capital potential. 8. Revise policies and practices that are ability-adjacent imaginings of access. 9. Eliminate sanist and neuroscientific languaging from how you speak about students. 10. Vigilantly interrogate how “normal” and “belong” are socially constructed. 11. Treat lived experience expertise as a gift, not a resource to mine and to spend. 12. Create non-psychiatric routes of receiving accommodation requests in your classroom. 13. Seek out uncomfortable stories of mad exclusion and consider carceral logic’s role in it. 14. Center madness in inclusive methodologies designed to explicitly resist carceral logics. 15. Create counteraffectual classrooms that anticipate and interrupt kairotic spatial power. 16. Strive to refuse comfort and immediate intelligibility as mandatory classroom presences. 17. Create pathways that empower cozy space understandings of classroom practice. 18. Vector students wherever possible as dynamic ability constellations in assessment

    Novel digital biomarkers for frontotemporal dementia

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    Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a heterogenous neurodegenerative disease and is caused by an autosomal dominant mutation in around one third of cases. This pattern of inheritance enables FTD to be studied in the presymptomatic phase, where individuals carry the genetic mutation but have yet to develop symptoms. There are currently no approved treatments for FTD, although clinical trials aiming to target interventions at the earliest disease stage, are underway. There is an urgent need for biomarkers that can reliably detect and monitor the progression of disease in the presymptomatic period, though there are a distinct lack of sensitive cognitive measures. This thesis aims to establish the validity and sensitivity of a set of digital biomarkers that can be used to measure cognitive function in FTD. I begin this thesis by describing the Ignite computerised cognitive assessment, developing normative properties for the tests through a remote data collection study in over 2,000 healthy controls. I build upon this validation by establishing the concurrent validity of Ignite with gold-standard pen and paper tasks, the test-retest reliability upon repeated administration, and demonstrate the tests are sensitive to presymptomatic impairment across several cognitive domains. I also describe a novel portable eye tracking experiment that can be completed outside of the lab, first highlighting the validity of the tests as measures of cognitive function and demonstrating their sensitivity in detecting early changes in social cognition in the presymptomatic period. Finally, I investigate a smartphone app that passively monitors human-device interactions to generate digital biomarkers of cognitive function. I establish the acceptability of the app in the general population before demonstrating the measures produced can detect differences in keyboard interactions in presymptomatic FTD mutation carriers. This work provides evidence that biomarkers generated from different digital devices are valid and sensitive measures of cognitive impairment in FTD. Therefore, digital biomarkers could replace outdated pen and paper tasks and be used as outcome measures in clinical trials
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