ASU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This collection includes most of the ASU Theses and Dissertations from 2011 to present. ASU Theses and Dissertations are available in downloadable PDF format; however, a small percentage of items are under embargo. Information about the dissertations/theses includes degree information, committee members, an abstract, supporting data or media.
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- 3 Arizona State University
- 1 Bastle, Ryan
- 1 Brewer, Gene
- 1 Craig, David W.
- 1 Hjelm, Brooke Erika
- 1 Huentelman, Matthew J.
- 1 Kusumi, Kenro
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- 1 Liu, Li
- 1 Mason, Hugh S.
- 1 Neisewander, Janet
- 1 Newbern, Jason
- 1 Nikulina, Ella
- 1 Perrone-Bizzozero, Nora
- 1 Peter, Beate
- 1 Sanabria, Federico
- 1 Vose, Caitlin
- 1 Wilson-Rawls, Norma J.
- 3 English
- 3 Public
- Neurosciences
- Genetics
- 1 Childhood Apraxia of Speech
- 1 Electrophysiology
- 1 Genetic Variation
- 1 Mismatch Negativity
- 1 Molecular biology
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- 1 Psychology
- 1 RNA-Seq
- 1 Speech Sound Disorders
- 1 Speech therapy
- 1 autopsy
- 1 genomics
- 1 induced pluripotent stem cells
- 1 neural differentiation
- 1 stem cell biology
- Dwarf Galaxies as Laboratories of Protogalaxy Physics: Canonical Star Formation Laws at Low Metallicity
- Evolutionary Genetics of CORL Proteins
- Social Skills and Executive Functioning in Children with PCDH-19
- Deep Domain Fusion for Adaptive Image Classification
- Software Defined Pulse-Doppler Radar for Over-The-Air Applications: The Joint Radar-Communications Experiment
Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS) is a severe motor speech disorder that is difficult to diagnose as there is currently no gold-standard measurement to differentiate between CAS and other speech disorders. In the present study, we investigate underlying biomarkers associated with CAS in addition to enhanced phenotyping through behavioral testing. Cortical electrophysiological measures were utilized to investigate differences in neural activation in response to native and non-native vowel contrasts between children with CAS and typically developing peers. Genetic analysis included full exome sequencing of a child with CAS and his unaffected parents in order to uncover underlying genetic variation that …
- Contributors
- Vose, Caitlin, Peter, Beate, Liu, Li, et al.
- Created Date
- 2018
MicroRNAs are small, non-coding transcripts that post-transcriptionally regulate expression of multiple genes. Recently microRNAs have been linked to the etiology of neuropsychiatric disorders, including drug addiction. Following genome-wide sequence analyses, microRNA-495 (miR-495) was found to target several genes within the Knowledgebase of Addiction-Related Genes (KARG) database and to be highly expressed in the nucleus accumbens (NAc), a pivotal brain region involved in reward and motivation. The central hypothesis of this dissertation is that NAc miR-495 regulates drug abuse-related behavior by targeting several addiction-related genes (ARGs). I tested this hypothesis in two ways: 1) by examining the effects of viral-mediated miR-495 …
- Contributors
- Bastle, Ryan, Neisewander, Janet, Newbern, Jason, et al.
- Created Date
- 2016
Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) are an intriguing approach for neurological disease modeling, because neural lineage-specific cell types that retain the donors' complex genetics can be established in vitro. The statistical power of these iPSC-based models, however, is dependent on accurate diagnoses of the somatic cell donors; unfortunately, many neurodegenerative diseases are commonly misdiagnosed in live human subjects. Postmortem histopathological examination of a donor's brain, combined with premortem clinical criteria, is often the most robust approach to correctly classify an individual as a disease-specific case or unaffected control. We describe the establishment of primary dermal fibroblasts cells lines from 28 …
- Contributors
- Hjelm, Brooke Erika, Craig, David W., Wilson-Rawls, Norma J., et al.
- Created Date
- 2013