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    LOW RESOLUTION ELECTROMAGNETIC TOMOGRAPHY (LORETA) ANALYSIS OF THE BRAINS ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE TO EMOTIONAL VISUAL STIMULI UNDER DIFFERING CONDITIONS

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    Cadmus, Matthew S
    Abstract
    Current methods of diagnosing and monitoring stress include: observing changes in the severity of existing symptoms, the development of new symptoms, hormone level tests, and stress self-assessment surveys. Self-assessment surveys are subject to bias and false reporting. This project focuses on analyzing electroencephalogram (EEG) using Low Resolution Electromagnetic Tomography (LORETA) to identify differences within current source location of emotionally elicited event related potentials (ERPs), in order to aid physicians in stress diagnostics and management. For this study twenty-one participants took the Penn State Worry Questionnaire which classifies the participants into high-stress and low-stress groups. The individuals had their EEG recorded while viewing pleasant, neutral, and unpleasant stimuli. CURRY, the current reconstruction program, was used to filter, epoch, and average the data to obtain event related potentials (ERPs) for each participant. Using group-averaged ERPs as the data input, LORETA was used to calculate the current distribution within the brain. One and two-tailed t-tests were performed to examine for current source distribution differences between high-stress/low-stress conditions and pleasant, unpleasant and neutral stimuli. The results of the experiment indicate that there is a difference in current source location between high-stress and low-stress individuals. The current source distribution differences are within regions of the frontal lobe and the parietal lobe associated with emotional processing.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10342/5934
    Subject
     emotion; LORETA; ERP; worry 
    Date
    2016-07-21
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    Cadmus, Matthew S. (July 2016). LOW RESOLUTION ELECTROMAGNETIC TOMOGRAPHY (LORETA) ANALYSIS OF THE BRAINS ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE TO EMOTIONAL VISUAL STIMULI UNDER DIFFERING CONDITIONS (Master's Thesis, East Carolina University). Retrieved from the Scholarship. (http://hdl.handle.net/10342/5934.)

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    Cadmus, Matthew S. LOW RESOLUTION ELECTROMAGNETIC TOMOGRAPHY (LORETA) ANALYSIS OF THE BRAINS ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE TO EMOTIONAL VISUAL STIMULI UNDER DIFFERING CONDITIONS. Master's Thesis. East Carolina University, July 2016. The Scholarship. http://hdl.handle.net/10342/5934. April 18, 2021.
    Chicago:
    Cadmus, Matthew S, “LOW RESOLUTION ELECTROMAGNETIC TOMOGRAPHY (LORETA) ANALYSIS OF THE BRAINS ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE TO EMOTIONAL VISUAL STIMULI UNDER DIFFERING CONDITIONS” (Master's Thesis., East Carolina University, July 2016).
    AMA:
    Cadmus, Matthew S. LOW RESOLUTION ELECTROMAGNETIC TOMOGRAPHY (LORETA) ANALYSIS OF THE BRAINS ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE TO EMOTIONAL VISUAL STIMULI UNDER DIFFERING CONDITIONS [Master's Thesis]. Greenville, NC: East Carolina University; July 2016.
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    East Carolina University

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