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Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping in the Human Brain

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) offers a good tissue contrast and the ability to visualize many disease related morphologies. The work presented in this thesis investigates the study of underlying structure of the brain using quantitative methods with a s ...

EPFL2016

Gaining Insight into Quality Diversity

Dario Floreano, Joshua Evan Auerbach, Giovanni Iacca

Recently there has been a growing movement of researchers that believes innovation and novelty creation, rather than pure optimization, are the true strengths of evolutionary algorithms relative to other forms of machine learning. This idea also provides o ...

ACM Press2016

Enhancing Consolidation of a New Temporal Motor Skill by Cerebellar Noninvasive Stimulation

Friedhelm Christoph Hummel, Maximilian Jonas Wessel

Cerebellar transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) has the potential to modulate cerebellar outputs and visuomotor adaptation. The cerebellum plays a pivotal role in the acquisition and control of skilled hand movements, especially its temporal aspe ...

Oxford University Press2016

Retrospective correction of involuntary microscopic head movement using highly accelerated fat image navigators (3D FatNavs) at 7T

Rolf Gruetter, José Pedro Rebelo Ferreira Marques, Daniel Gallichan

PURPOSE: The goal of the present study was to use a three-dimensional (3D) gradient echo volume in combination with a fat-selective excitation as a 3D motion navigator (3D FatNav) for retrospective correction of microscopic head motion during high-resoluti ...

Wiley-Blackwell2016

Nowhere and Everywhere: The Causal Origin of Voluntary Action

Aaron Schurger

The idea that intentions make the difference between voluntary and non-voluntary behaviors is simple and intuitive. At the same time, we lack an understanding of how voluntary actions actually come about, and the unquestioned appeal to intentions as discre ...

Springer2015

Deficiency in monocarboxylate transporter 1 (MCT1) in mice delays regeneration of peripheral nerves following sciatic nerve crush

Pierre Magistretti, Sylvain Eric Lengacher, Luc Pellerin, Lin Jin

Peripheral nerve regeneration following injury occurs spontaneously, but many of the processes require metabolic energy. The mechanism of energy supply to axons has not previously been determined. In the central nervous system, monocarboxylate transporter ...

Elsevier2015

Interactions of Peripheral Nerve Cells with Soft Micropillar Interfaces

Cédric Xavier Paulou

Regenerative peripheral nerve interfaces are particularly invasive implant devices. They rely on the growth of axons from transected nerve stumps through electrode-bearing structures in order to establish highly efficient communication channels with the ne ...

EPFL2015

A three-dimensional self-opening intraneural peripheral interface (SELINE)

Silvestro Micera

Objective. In this study we present the development and testing in a rat model of the self-opening neural interface (SELINE), a novel flexible peripheral neural interface. Approach. This polyimide-based electrode has a three-dimensional structure that prov ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2015

Astrocytes: New Targets for the Treatment of Neurodegenerative Diseases

Pierre Magistretti, Sylvain Eric Lengacher, Charles Léonard Finsterwald

The causes of neurodegenerative disorders are multiple, and for most of them a mechanistic understanding is still lacking. However, neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer disease (AD), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and Parkinson disease (PD) al ...

Bentham Science Publishers2015

Optogenetic Dissection of the Basal Forebrain Neuromodulatory Control of Cortical Activation, Plasticity, and Cognition

Carl Petersen

The basal forebrain (BF) houses major ascending projections to the entire neocortex that have long been implicated in arousal, learning, and attention. The disruption of the BF has been linked with major neurological disorders, such as coma and Alzheimer's ...

Soc Neuroscience2015

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