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Fall 2018

Chenji, Sneha R.

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) involves the progressive loss of upper and lower motor neurons. Frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) has been reported in a considerable proportion of patients, manifesting as cognitive and behavioural impairment in at least 25-50%, with 10-15% patients...

Spring 2013

Dai, Wenjun

Recent evidence from diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) studies reported that the structural integrity [fractional anisotropy (FA)] of white matter (WM) tracts in the ventral and dorsal regions of the brain is correlated with reading ability. It has thus been hypothesized that WM pathways in these...

Fall 2024

Parnianpour, Pedram

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a highly heterogeneous, progressive neurodegenerative disease with a median survival of three years from the onset of symptoms. As a multi-system disease, ALS is not limited to the motor system and includes degeneration of other cerebral regions, including...

2013

Mackey, Margaret

This article draws on a careful study of series fiction read in the 1950s to explore how stereotypes feature in the development of a young reader’s competence in learning to process stories in print. Five categories of stereotype are teased out: embodied stereotypes, understood through physical...