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Theses and Dissertations
This collection contains theses and dissertations of graduate students of the University of Alberta. The collection contains a very large number of theses electronically available that were granted from 1947 to 2009, 90% of theses granted from 2009-2014, and 100% of theses granted from April 2014 to the present (as long as the theses are not under temporary embargo by agreement with the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies). IMPORTANT NOTE: To conduct a comprehensive search of all UofA theses granted and in University of Alberta Libraries collections, search the library catalogue at www.library.ualberta.ca - you may search by Author, Title, Keyword, or search by Department.
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Items in this Collection
- 2Hiebert, Bryan A.
- 2Yeung, Michelle
- 1Ashiq, Md Ashiqur Rahman
- 1Beckie, Theresa.
- 1Davis, Roger A.
- 1Deines, Donald Kenneth.
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Fall 2022
Background: COVID-19 has significant impact on mental health and wellbeing of population all over the globe. The study used collected data from a large research project by International Citizen Project COVID-19 (ICPCOVID), Bangladesh chapter, to assess a potential difference between...
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Fall 2021
Spinal cord injury (SCI) not only leads to motor and sensory dysfunction, but just as debilitating are secondary consequences of SCI such as bowel disorders, neuroinflammation, immune suppression, pain and psychiatric disorders. In this thesis, I explore multiple aspects of recovery after SCI in...
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Spring 2016
Fear and anxiety are highly adaptive emotions that motivate species appropriate responses to threats: immediate and potential. Certain threats, such as ancestral predators, are highly predictable and can be recognized and addressed with innate (inherited) neural systems. This “genetic memory”...
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Fall 2017
In recent years, narratives about various embellished and imaginary risks of vaccination have come under criticism because of their implications for the widespread acceptance of vaccines. Criticisms of these narratives often accompany assumptions that all mainstream health professionals accept,...
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Fall 2011
Chapter 1 will provide a brief introduction to the neurobiology of anxiety, with an emphasis on three issues that have guided the current research. First, behavioral models of anxiety that have been useful in understanding its biological bases will be described. Second, the roles of the septum,...
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Fall 2015
Despite considerable research progress towards characterizing the neurobiology of anxiety, the focus on putative behavioral markers and the absence of a common behavioural/neurobiological signature for the different classes of anxiolytic drugs have potentially slowed research into the neural...
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Predicting Concussion Symptoms: The Impact of Pre-Injury Risk Factors on Post-Concussion Symptom Severity in Football Players
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This thesis explores how pre-existing mental health factors—anxiety, depression, concussion history, learning disorders, and ADHD—affect post-concussion outcomes in Canadian Football League (CFL) athletes. The study addresses a gap in the literature by investigating whether baseline mental health...
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Reactive Risk-taking: Anxiety Regulation via Approach Motivation Increases Risk-taking Behavior
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Experimental research and real-world events demonstrate a puzzling phenomenon—anxiety, which primarily inspires caution, sometimes increases risk-taking. The goal of the present research was to test whether this phenomenon is due to the regulation of anxiety via reactive approach motivation...