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Assessing Cerebral Autoregulation via Oscillatory Lower Body Negative Pressure and Projection Pursuit Regression
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2014
Cerebral perfusion is maintained across a range of pressures via cerebral autoregulation. However, characterizing autoregulation requires prominent pressure fluctuations at regulated frequencies. The described protocol will show how oscillatory lower body negative pressure can generate pressure fluctuations to provide data for projection pursuit regression for quantification of the autoregulatory curve.
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Preparation of Liquid Crystal Networks for Macroscopic Oscillatory Motion Induced by Light
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2017
The goal of the protocol is to create liquid crystalline polymer films that can mechanically oscillate under continuous light irradiation. We describe in great detail the conception of free-standing films, from the liquid crystal alignment method to the photo-actuation. The experimental protocol applied to prepare this material is broadly applicable.
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Behavioral Phenotyping of Murine Disease Models with the Integrated Behavioral Station (INBEST)
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2015
Prolonged and comprehensive monitoring of mice in a home-cage environment provides a deeper understanding of aberrant behavior in murine models of brain diseases. This paper describes the Integrated Behavioral Station (INBEST) as the key component of contemporary behavioral analysis.
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Psychophysically-anchored, Robust Thresholding in Studying Pain-related Lateralization of Oscillatory Prestimulus Activity
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2017
Psychophysical methods such as the QUEST estimation procedure can efficiently yield robust estimates of the stimulation intensity at which nonpainful sensations transition into painful sensations. By stimulating repeatedly at the threshold intensity, the variability in rating responses can directly be attributed to perceptual classifications in subsequent analyses.
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Nest Building Behavior as an Early Indicator of Behavioral Deficits in Mice
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2019
Here, we present a protocol to quantify nest building behavior in mice, which is known to be impaired in several neurological disorders and diseases. This protocol examines the utility of four materials and offers the opportunity to quantify the rater agreement in scoring, improving the validity and reliability of the assay.
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A restoring influence pulls a system toward equilibrium, but inertia carries it past that position instead of allowing it to stop there. This alternating action produces repeated motion. The resulting behavior depends on properties such as amplitude, frequency, and phase, which describe the excursion, repetition rate, and timing of the motion relative to a reference oscillation.
Damping removes energy from an oscillating system and can reduce its amplitude over time. An external force can instead add energy, allowing the motion to continue or become sustained. Comparing these effects helps distinguish freely reducing oscillations from behavior maintained by outside input, which is important when evaluating dynamic systems and mechanical vibrations.
These properties describe different aspects of the same motion. Amplitude indicates the size of the variation, frequency indicates how often the motion repeats, and phase identifies its timing within a cycle. Considering them together allows physicists to compare oscillations, describe relationships between systems, and interpret how motion contributes to waves, vibrations, or other dynamic behavior.
Energy can shift between potential and kinetic forms as a system moves through its cycle. Near some positions, stored potential energy drives the return toward equilibrium; during motion, kinetic energy becomes prominent. Tracking this exchange clarifies why the system continues moving and shows how damping can reduce the energy available for subsequent cycles.
The framework applies to pendulums, springs, electrical circuits, sound, mechanical vibrations, and waves. These systems may differ in their physical components, yet their changing states can be examined through shared properties such as amplitude, frequency, phase, energy transfer, damping, and external forcing. This makes oscillation analysis useful across several areas of physics.
Analyzing repeated variations helps explain how devices and measurement systems respond to changing conditions. It also supports the design of stable devices by revealing the effects of restoring influences, energy transfer, damping, and external forces. In physics research, the same analysis connects mechanical motion, electrical behavior, sound, and wave phenomena within a common dynamic framework.