Date of Graduation
5-2014
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering
Degree Level
Undergraduate
Department
Biomedical Engineering
Advisor/Mentor
Shew, Woodrow
Committee Member/Reader
Muldoon, Timothy J
Committee Member/Second Reader
Wochok, Jeffrey C.
Abstract
To study the effect of the imbalance of excitation and inhibition neurons on brain entropy using a computer model of a brain. The brain model will be composed of a neural network and entropy of the neural network will be measured quantitatively. Entropy in this context quantifies how many different patterns of activated neurons the brain can create. Imbalance between excitation and inhibition neurons causes the brain to malfunction, which can be an underlying cause of autism.
Citation
Alfaori, Q. R. (2014). How Imbalanced Excitation and Inhibition May Cause Low Entropy Brain Dynamics. Biomedical Engineering Undergraduate Honors Theses Retrieved from https://scholarworks.uark.edu/bmeguht/8