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EDUCATION - B.S. 2003, University of Washington-Seattle
Electrical Engineering
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE - Legacy Health System, Portland, Oregon, 2003-2004
Advisor - F.O. Black, MD
Project - Development of analysis and new protocols for patients with balance disorders - Vanderbilt University, NSF Fellowship, Summer 2000
Advisor - Benoit Dawant, PhD
Project - Development of a way to isolate structures within images of the brain - Columbia University, 1999-2000
Advisor - Maureen Durkin, PhD
Project - Using volumetric MRIs to examine neonatal brain abnormalities and neurodeveloopment in premature infants
I am interested in the role of the vestibular system in modulating slow wave sleep in patients with psychiatric and/or vestibular disorders. While all available evidence indicates that sleep is important, its function remains unknown. The goal of my research is to test a novel hypothesis about sleep function, the synaptic homeostasis hypothesis (Tononi 2003, 2006). My work employs the use of hd-EEG recordings in humans performing a visuomotor learning task (rotation learning) that involves right parietal cortex. I hope to test two crucial predictions of the hypothesis: that sleep slow waves are necessary for the renormalization of cortical circuits after learning; and are necessary for the enhancement of performance after sleep. I ultimately, plan to translate these findings to a clinical population such as major depression where there is thought to be a correlation between abnormal slow wave sleep and memory performance. PRESENTATIONS - Landsness EC, Bloomberg J, Peters B, Black FO. �FAR and NEAR Target Dynamic Visual Acuity: Bilateral Vestibular Deficit Patients.� Association for Research in Otolaryngology, New Orleans, LA, 2005.
- Landsness EC, Bloomberg J, Peters B, Stallings V, Homer, L, Black FO. �FAR and NEAR Target Dynamic Visual Acuity During Gait: Bilateral Vestibular Deficit Patients.� International Barany Conference, Paris, France, 2004. (poster)
- Landsness EC, Tan G. Adaptively Filtered EKG Signals. Senior DSP Project Presentation, Seattle, WA, 2002.
- Landsness EC, Dawant B. Automatic Segmentation of CSF, White Matter, Gray Matter & Ventricles. BME REU summer program, Nashville, TN, 2000.
- Landsness EC, Eriksen J. Epileptic Source Localization. ASE Summer Research Symposium, 1997.
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