Keyword: Novel neuroscience/neuroimaging techniques

Neuroplasticity during recovery of attentional function after parietal stroke
http://brainscan.uwo.ca/research/project_summaries/COBA0220-P.html
Project Summary - Two percent of Canadians live with the effects of stroke. These effects are wide ranging - impairing motor function, speech production and general cognition. While the symptoms...

Temporal interference stimulation
http://brainscan.uwo.ca/research/project_summaries/BRCO0220-P.html
Project Summary - Brain stimulation can be very helpful to many patients with Parkinson's disease, intractable depression or obsessive-compulsive disorder. It's also a core method...

Multisensory stimuli and virtual navigation tasks during intracranial clinical recordings
http://brainscan.uwo.ca/research/project_summaries/LYMU0220-P.html
Project Summary - A picture of a first-grade classroom or the smell of fresh-baked cookies can evoke specific and detailed memories. These detailed memories often contain a comprehensive...

Detecting fine-grained population codes in human prefrontal cortex
http://brainscan.uwo.ca/research/project_summaries/MAMU0220-P.html
Project Summary - Cognitive flexibility is the ability to adapt our thoughts and actions to the demands of the current situation. It allows us to solve problems and adjust quickly to changes in...

Multi-area organization of saccade-evoked traveling waves
http://brainscan.uwo.ca/research/project_summaries/JUMA0519-P.html
Project Summary - Visual perception is essential to humans and other primates. We generally know that the organized activity of neurons in the cerebral cortex allows us....

Somatosensory microcircuits for real-world hand function
http://brainscan.uwo.ca/research/project_summaries/ANPR1018-P.html
Project Summary - A central goal of systems neuroscience is to understand how real world behaviour, such as hand movements and use, is generated by coordinated populations of single neurons...

Developing optogenetics/electrophysiology applications for studying cognitive impairment during stress
http://brainscan.uwo.ca/research/project_summaries/WAIN1018-P.html
Project Summary - The prefrontal cortex (PFC) is a very important brain region. It plays a vital role in working memory - cognitive tasks such as temporarily remembering a 7-digit number...

Dissecting the architecture of prefrontal cortical circuits
http://brainscan.uwo.ca/research/project_summaries/STEV1018-P.html
Project Summary - The prefrontal cortex is the major node of the brain network that brings about higher cognitive functions (such as planning, reasoning and problem solving)...

Development of Virtual Gaming Environments for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
http://brainscan.uwo.ca/research/project_summaries/JOCU1018-P.html
Project Summary - Researchers in neuroscience and psychology typically investigate the human brain using simple images and tasks. Creating more realistic tasks within the constraints...

Growing new dendritic spines to correct cognitive deficits of schizophrenia
http://brainscan.uwo.ca/research/project_summaries/NARA1017-P.html
Project Summary - Cognitive disfunction is a symptom of many neurodevelopmental and acquired brain disorders - including schizophrenia, autism spectrum disorder...

Single-photon calcium imaging for interrogating the circuitry of the frontoparietal cognitive control network
http://brainscan.uwo.ca/research/project_summaries/STEV0417-P.html
Project Summary - Neuropsychiatric disorders are mental disorders that are attributable to diseases of the nervous system. A large number of these disorders show...

Development of fMRI compatible reversible deactivation to examine cerebral networks
http://brainscan.uwo.ca/research/project_summaries/STLO0417-P.html
Project Summary - The development of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has greatly expanded our ability to examine neural processing while subjects perform a variety...

The role of astrocytes in memory: focus on pattern separation
http://brainscan.uwo.ca/research/project_summaries/TIBU1017-P.html
Project Summary - Neurons are generally assumed to be the cells responsible for memory and cognition in our brain. We know they operate in networks, they exhibit electrical...