Thesis
Approach to study the brain: towards the early detection of neurodegenerative disease
- Abstract:
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Neurodegeneration is a progressive loss of neuron function or structure, including death of neurons, and occurs at many different levels of neuronal circuitry. In this thesis I discuss Parkinson’s Disease (PD), the second most common neurodegenerative disease (NDD). PD is a devastating progressive NDD often with delayed diagnosis due to detection methods that depend on the appearance of visible motor symptoms. By the time cardinal symptoms manifest, 60 to 80 percent or more of the dopamine...
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+ Aziz, T
Division:
MSD
Department:
Surgical Sciences
Role:
Supervisor
+ Stein, J
Division:
MSD
Department:
Surgical Sciences
Role:
Sponsor
Funding
+ U.S. Department of Defense; IARPA; Brain Sciences Foundation
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Howard, N
Bibliographic Details
- Publication date:
- 2014
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- Oxford University, UK
Item Description
- Language:
- English
- Keywords:
- Subjects:
- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- ora:7878
- Deposit date:
- 2014-02-03
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- Copyright holder:
- Howard, N
- Copyright date:
- 2013
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