Faculty Profile
Toshikazu Ikuta
Associate Professor of Communication Science and Disorders
Phone Number:
Email: tikuta@olemiss.edu
https://www.olemiss.edu/people/tikuta
Key Words: Alzheimer's, Autism, Cognitive Psychology, Communicative Disorders, Computational Linguistics, Data Science, Dopamine, Generative Linguistics, Genetics, Neuroimaging, Neuroscience, Schizophrenia, Mutism, Brain
Research Description: Hello! You are definitely invited to the Digital Neuroscience Laboratory.. We play with human brain data. We have published papers of the numerous topics including neuroimaging, neuropsychopharmacology, neurodevelopment, psychiatric and/or neurological disorders, dopaminergic modulation, computational linguistics, generative linguistics, auditory hallucination, diet&stress, and genetics.
Ask not what you can do for your lab. Ask what your lab can do for you.
My goal is to help your future as it is my honor to mentor any of you. One of the best outcomes is to let the student publish the study. Below are examples of publication from a honor's thesis study.
+ Disrupted Olfactory Integration in Schizophrenia: Functional Connectivity Study
+ Pituitary Gland Functional Connectivity and BMI
+The human raphe-hippocampal tract and affective sensitivity: a probabilistic tractography study
If you want to do this (YES YOU CAN), please email me. The door is open anytime for you!
In more formal words...
The human brain exhibits remarkable diversities. These diversities recognized as physiological and/or behavioral differences across people. In Digital Neuroscience Laboratory, we seek to identify the brain structures that are responsible for any named cognitive/perceptual/behavioral diversity.
Honors Theses:
Kessler, Paige Brianne (2022) Pragmatic Deficits in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (full text)
Andrus, Alana LaVerne (2022) A Systematic Review of Music Therapy for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (full text)
Gore, Parker Scout (2022) The Integrity of the Optic Radiations: Association with Age and Sex (full text)
Vance, Gregory Ray (2022) Effects of Music Exposure on Autobiographical Memory in Alzheimer's Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (full text)
Sills, Bethany Joy (2022) Somatosensory Interhemispheric Connectivity and Hyperactivity
Wilson, Katherine (2021) The Functional Connectivity of the Auditory Cortex in Autism Spectrum Disorder (full text)
Schwartz, Taylor (2021) Tablet Use and Social Skills in Autism Spectrum Disorder (full text)
Stansberry, Taylor (2021) The Interhemispheric Connectivity of the Auditory Cortices (full text)
Miller, Emma (2021) Functional Connectivity of the Inferior Frontal Gyrus in Autism Spectrum Disorders (full text)
Fisher, Amia (2021) Systematic Review of Race/Ethnicity in Parkinson's Disease (full text)
Gammill, Callie Claire (2021) Parkinson's Disease, the Amygdala, and Non-motor Symptoms (full text)
Llewelyn, Landis (2021) Hippocampal Connectivity in Parkinson's Disease (full text)
Day, Catherine (2021) A Systematic Review of the Correlation Between Dyslexia and the Axon Guidance Receptor Gene, ROBO1 (full text)
Kingry, Logan A. (2020) Receptive and expressive prosodic abilities in adults with Down syndrome (full text)
Walsh, Jane (2020) The Auditory Radiation in Traumatic Brain Damage: Diffusion Tensor Imaging Study (full text)
Spears, Anna (2020) Correlation of Inflammation in Arthritis with the Myelination in the Brain (full text)
Sekul, Ashley (2020) The Raphe-Hippocampal Tract and its Age Differences: Diffusion Tensor Imaging and Probabilistic Tractography Study (full text)
Osbarn, Sydney (2020) Wernicke?s Area in Autism: rsfMRI study (full text)
Joiner, Katherine (2019) Auditory Verbal Hallucinations in Schizophrenia (full text)
Lawrence, Madlyn (2019) Resting State fMRI Study of the Olfactory Region in Autism (full text)
Tucker, Adryanna (2019) Auditory Radiation and Cognitive Decline: Probabilistic Tractography Study (full text)
Rucker, E. Paige (2017) Pituitary Gland Functional Connectivity and BMI. (full text)
Kiparizoska, Sara (2016) The Olfactory System in Schizophrenia: an rsfMRI Study of the Piriform Cortex. (full text)
Trippel, Stephanie (2016) Newborn Diagnostics: Effects of Hearing Screening Failures, Appointment Attendance & Distance on Age of Hearing Loss Diagnosis. (full text)
Drakos, Alexandria (2015) Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Exercise Effects on Attention and Working Memory in Alzheimer's Disease. (full text)
Available Research Projects:
brain MRI analysis
Project Description: If you have thought that the brain is interesting, this would be the right place. Dr. Tossi likes to know what is interesting to you and will tailor his analysis for you. You will need to think and write about the analysis. The goal is to let a student to PUBLISH. No prior experience in MRI or brain is required. The data includes autism, ADHD, Alzheimer's, Schizophrenia, PTSD, traumatic brain damage, and healthy population.
Desired Student Qualifications: General interest to the brain.
Project Timeline: Two semesters.
Duties of Student Researcher: A student can decide the topic by her/his own. The data analysis will be at least partly provided by the instructor.
Last Updated on 2022-05-06 10:18:03
LEGO Brain
Project Description: Building a human brain with LEGO blocks. This project is more serious than it sounds.
Desired Student Qualifications: more than 5 years of LEGO.
Project Timeline: unknown
Duties of Student Researcher: To be discussed.
Last Updated on 2022-05-06 10:18:05
Meta-analysis
Project Description: This will be a literature search project. No experiment involved, but this will produce a scientific writing. There will be a good chance for publishing the outcome. The topics are not limited to communication sciences and disorders topic. A student can chose any scientific or medical topic that can produce a meta-analysis.
Desired Student Qualifications: statistics
Project Timeline: 12 months
Duties of Student Researcher: Literature search and writing a review.
Last Updated on 2022-05-06 10:18:07
Music Cognition
Project Description: Music perception is an area of cognition that is understudied. Students will have various opportunities to explore neuroscience or cognitive science approaches to music cognition (or also production).
Desired Student Qualifications: Acoustics and harmonics.
Project Timeline: 2-3 semesters.
Duties of Student Researcher: To be discussed.
Last Updated on 2022-05-06 10:18:11
Neuroscience Meta-analysis
Project Description: This will be a good opportunity for students to PUBLISH a paper. I will help a student to do a meta-analysis of any neuroscience topic. Suitable for future medical students, as well as for all others.
Desired Student Qualifications: MOTIVATED
Project Timeline: two semesters.
Duties of Student Researcher: Collect publications of a topic (TBA). Make a table. Stats will be helped by the instructor.
Last Updated on 2022-05-06 10:18:14
Selective Mutism
Project Description: If you are interested in Selective Mutism, please email me
Desired Student Qualifications:
Project Timeline:
Duties of Student Researcher: To be discussed.
Last Updated on 2022-05-06 10:18:18
Virtual Brain
Project Description: This is a computational neuroscience project where a student programs (a very focused part/function of) the brain.
Desired Student Qualifications: Fluency in a programming language.
Project Timeline: One or Two semesters.
Duties of Student Researcher: Build one program that runs. Simulation itself does not need to be successful, as far as the program runs to follow the proposed algorithm.
Last Updated on 2022-05-06 10:18:22