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title

Modeling The Functional Human Brain: A Network-Based Approach

author

Joyce, Karen

abstract

Traditional practice in neuroscience has been to examine the brain in terms of isolated components extracted from images. However, more recent trends have moved towards the examination of the entire brain in order to observe the complete topology and to capture emergent behavior not present at the component level. Network based models enable us to study how low level interactions in the brain can produce emergent behaviors, and identify regions that are most central to those behaviors. This project takes two approaches to the understanding of the functional brain as a network.

subject

Agent based models

Brain

Genetic algorithms

Networks

contributor

Hayasaka, Satoru (committee chair)

John, David (committee member)

Kraft, Robert (committee member)

Santago, Peter (committee member)

Simpson, Sean (committee member)

date

2013-06-06T21:19:20Z (accessioned)

2013-06-06T21:19:20Z (available)

2013 (issued)

degree

Biomedical Engineering (discipline)

identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/10339/38512 (uri)

language

en (iso)

publisher

Wake Forest University

type

Dissertation