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Intracranial electroencephalography signatures of the induction of general anesthesia with Propofol (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)General anesthesia is a drug-induced, reversible behavioral state characterized by hypnosis (loss of consciousness), amnesia (loss of memory), analgesia (loss of pain perception), akinesia (loss of movement), and hemodynamic ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)Learning to direct behaviors towards goals is a central function of all vertebrate nervous systems. Initial learning often involves an exploratory phase, in which actions are flexible and highly variable. With repeated ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)An area of left occipitotemporal cortex commonly referred to as the visual word form area (VWFA), has consistently been shown to activate during the processing of written language. However, the exact nature of the region's ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)The neuronal serine/threonine kinase cyclin-dependent kinase 5 (Cdk5) is activated by its regulatory subunit, p35, to post-translationally modify substrates through phosphorylation. In this thesis, I provide several lines ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)In the following thesis, I describe the investigation of two problems related to the organization and structural analysis of visual information: perceptual grouping and silhouette analysis and representation. For the problem ...
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