ETDs from Heersink School of Medicine

ETDs from Heersink School of Medicine

 
Electronic versions of theses and dissertations from graduates of the School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Follow


Theses/Dissertations from 2026

PDF

Associations Of Traumatic Brain Injury With Dysautonomia In A Cohort Of Community Dwelling Adults, Fitzgerald Dodds

PDF

From Transcriptome To Function: Multimodal Characterization Of Transcriptionally Defined Ventral Tegmental Area Dopamine Neurons, Natalie Dalton Fitzgerald

PDF

Investigating The Effects Of Increased O-Glcnaylation On Pathology In Alzheimer’S Disease, Melissa Louise Garcia

PDF

Orofacial Pain Behaviors And Underlying Ion Channel Mechanisms In Trigeminal Peripheral Neuropathy In Mice, Saurav Gupta

PDF

The Role Of Mitochondrial And Lysosomal Damage In Neurotoxicity From Parkinson 'S-Related Environmental Exposures, Neda Ilieva

PDF

Characterizing The Role Of The Paraventricular Nucleus Of The Thalamus D2R+ Neurons In Interoceptive Predictions, Briana Machen

PDF

Integrated Proteomics To Understand The Role Of Neuritin-1 (Nrn1) As A Molecular Mediator Of Synaptic Resilience In Alzheimer’S Disease, Derian Pugh

PDF

Photon Encoding In The Early Visual System, Keaton Miller Ramsey

PDF

The Role Of 14-3-3 Proteins In The Pro-Inflammatory Response Of Microglia And The Neuronal Stress Response To Trichloroethylene Exposure, William Stone

PDF

Neuroinflammation And Neuropathology In A Novel Tau, Amyloid-Beta And Alpha-Synuclein Co-Pathology Model, Jhodi Mickayla Webster

Theses/Dissertations from 2025

PDF

Social Dominance And Cortical Neuronal Synchrony In Male Mecp2 Knockout Mice, Cesar Andres Acevedo Triana

PDF

The Contribution Of Multiple Conducting States To Ampa Receptor Biophysical Properties, Gokulakrishna Banumurthy

PDF

Reelin Regulation Of Striatal Physiology And Cocaine Reward, Kasey Lynn Brida

PDF

Impact Of Alpha-Synuclein Aggregation On Corticostriatal Synaptic Function And Morphology, Charlotte Franziska Brzozowski

PDF

Interactions Between Progranulin Insufficiency And Tdp-43 Overexpression In A Mouse Model Of Frontotemporal Dementia, Anna Cook

PDF

A Neuronal Role For Alzheimer’S Disease Risk Factor Bin1, Mary Natalie Davis

PDF

Identifying Functional Regional Changes In Patients With Parkinson’S Disease And Freezing Of Gait, Taylor Robin Davis

PDF

Parsing Clinical And Neurobiological Heterogeneity In First-Episode Psychosis Patients With And Without Features Of The Deficit Syndrome Of Schizophrenia, Matheus Teles Gomes de Araujo

PDF

Identifying The Neurobiological Substrates Of Gulf War Illness, Chloe Lisette Jones

PDF

Neural Mechanisms Of Proactive And Reactive Cognitive Control In Humans, Anas Khan

PDF

Myelin Mapping In Psychosis, Victoria Lynn King

PDF

Insights Into Rett Syndrome: Social Behavior, Bdnf-Trkb Signaling, And Dendritic Spines, Destynie Medeiros

PDF

Investigating Potential Therapeutic Vulnerabilities And Elucidating Molecular Mechanisms For The Tumor Suppressors Nfkbia And Anxa7 In Diffuse Gliomas, Aran Merati

PDF

Maternal Immune Activation Causes Oligodendrocyte Deficits in the Hypothalamus, Kate Miller

PDF

Understanding Visual Memory Encoding And The Effects Of Endurance Exercise In Healthy Adults And People With Temporal Lobe Epilepsy, Brandon Steve Mitchell

PDF

Murder On The Axonal Express: Synucleinopathy Disruption Of 14-3-3 Protein-Protein Interactions Impairs Axonal Trafficking, Frank Sanders Pair

PDF

Amygdala Npy+ Interneurons Are Activated By Aversive Stim-Uli, Patric Perez

PDF

Understanding Psychotic Disorders Using Normative Modeling-Derived Individual-Level Brain Structural Abnormalities, Natalie Remiszewski

PDF

An Analysis Of Gamma-Aminobutyric Acid Levels With Structural And Functional Connectivity In Antipsychotic Medication-Naïve First Episode Psychosis Patients, Genelle Dano Samson

PDF

Understanding The Functional Consequence Of Cul3 Deletion In The Mammalian Brain, Prathibha Sekar

PDF

A High-Salt Diet Modulates Renal Afferent Nerve Activity; Potential Role Of The Endothelin System, Jiaxi Shen

PDF

Exploring The Biological Role Of Tfe3 Regulation In Neurons, Humna Siddiqi

PDF

The Dopaminergic Cell-Intrinsic Clock And Bidirectional Relationships Of Circadian Disruption And Synucleinopathy, Ananya Swaroop

PDF

Structural And Molecular Alterations At The Synapse In Alzheimer'S Disease, Audrey Weber

Theses/Dissertations from 2024

PDF

The Impact Of O-Glcnac Signaling On Dna Hydroxymethylation In Temporal Lobe Epilepsy, Rudhab Bahabry

PDF

Phosphate Drives Pulmonary Inflammation Through Fgfr1, Erk, And Akt Signaling, Seth Bollenbecker

PDF

Novel Roles Of Rab35 In Development And Disease, Kelsey Ruth Clearman

PDF

The T Cell Response In A Mouse Model Of Multiple System Atrophy, Nicole Jane Corbin-Stein

PDF

The Multifaceted Role Of Neutrophil Heterogeneity In Covid-19 Pathogenesis, Marcus Darrell Davis

PDF

The Role Of Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptors In Inflammatory Airway Diseases, Molly Easter

PDF

Impact Of Alpha-Synuclein Aggregates On Synaptic Structure In The Amygdala, Nolwazi Zakithi Gcwensa

PDF

Oncolytic Viral Therapy Reshapes The Anti-Glioma Cd4 T Cell Response And Their Tcr Repertoire, Jeffrey Grimes

PDF

The Modification Of Single Domain Antibody Framework And Variable Regions To Impart Novel Pharmacodynamic And Pharmacokinetic Properties, Lucinda Ann Hall

PDF

Diagnostic Imaging Approaches: Pet Imaging In Monitoring Immune Responses In Oncology And Tuberculosis, Chanelle Hunter

PDF

Investigating Hiv-1 Transmission To Human Cervix Using Reporter Virus Technologies, Dana Frances Indihar

PDF

Beyond Chronic Fatigue: Studying The Role Of Neuroinflammation, Glutamate, And Glutamine, Indonesia Alohn Jordan

PDF

Investigating molecular mechanisms behind neuronotypic GBA1 mutations in Lewy body dementias, Casey Mahoney-Crane

PDF

Elementary Cone Photoreceptor Signals In V1 Neurons, Cyril Nyankerh

PDF

The Effect Of Progranulin On Lysosomal Function In Bv2 Cells, Michelle Park

PDF

O-Glcnacylation And Modulation Of Gabaergic Transmission, Shekinah Phillips