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Record W4300584778 · doi:10.26443/msurj.v1i1.151

The Vestibular Ocular Reflex In Parkinsonian Mice

2006· article· en· W4300584778 on OpenAlexaff
Irene Raitman, Kathleen E. Cullen

Bibliographic record

VenueMcGill Science Undergraduate Research Journal · 2006
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldNeuroscience
TopicVestibular and auditory disorders
Canadian institutionsMcGill University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsReflexNeuroscienceDopamineSubstantia nigraVestibular systemVestibulo–ocular reflexNystagmusVestibular nucleiMedial vestibular nucleusPsychologyMedicineAudiologyDopaminergic

Abstract

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Parkinson's disease (PD) is a progressive neurological disorder characterized by poor balance, slow movement, rigidity, and uncontrollable tremors of the hands. These symptoms result from the degeneration of dopamine-producing nerve cells in the brain, specifically in the substantia nigra and the locus coeruleus. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that is released by the brain and stimulates motor neurons. When dopamine production is depleted, the motor system is unable to control movement and coordination and PD symptoms occur. The goal of this experiment was to gain a better understanding of the effects of PD on the vestibular system. More specifically, the effect of the destruction of the dopamine producing cells on the vestibular ocular reflex (VOR) was investigated. The VOR is a gaze-stabilization reflex which maintains eye fixation on an object during head rotation. As the head turns, the eyes compensate by slowly turning in the opposite direction. As the eyes reach the limit of their turning range, they quickly reset by returning to their starting position. Together, the VOR (slow phase) and the resetting (quick phase) make up the vestibular nystagmus. The VOR produced during horizontal and vertical rotations by untreated mice was compared with the VOR produced by those mice that were injected with MPTP (1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine), a drug known to destroy the dopamine producing neurons in humans, primates, and rodents. In addition, the relationship between peak eye velocity and amplitude of the quick phases was analyzed to see if the quick phase was altered in MPTP-treated mice.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.005
Threshold uncertainty score0.015

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0020.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0020.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.054
GPT teacher head0.362
Teacher spread0.308 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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