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    Cybernetic philosophy, performativity, and new media aesthetics
    (Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Güzel Sanatlar Fakültesi, 2022-05-26) Hatipoğlu, Özüm
    By drawing upon philosophical repercussions of cybernetics, this article reformulates the notion of performativity in the context of new media aesthetics. It links performativity to new media aesthetics via the cybernetic notions of information processing and generating systems, recursive electronic and digital feedback loops, emergency, complexity, dynamism, and autonomously evolving systems. In doing so, I argue that the operational logic and infrastructure of new media technologies can only be understood from a performative perspective. The term performance basically refers here to the movement which governs the generation and transformation of systems by putting them into action. It is through this action that the various components and parts of a system relay and process information and produce complex interactive systems. As a result, this kind of complex interactivity leads to the emergence of new forms. It is in this way that these complex systems produce new codes, configurations, and constellations. Such a formulation constitutes my starting point to describe a hybrid framework that may eventually lead to a better understanding of the essential characteristics of new media technologies and aesthetics. The shift from single, discrete, and isolated mechanical artifacts to technological systems laid the foundations for a new kind of aesthetics, the aesthetics of information processing and generating systems. The study of the art object as a system or an environment rather than a single object is crucial to address the way in which the system itself might be conceived of as an aesthetic medium. I foreground my definition of new media in the notions of medium and mediation and discuss the aesthetic possibilities brought forth by the emergence and advancement of information and communication technologies. The method used in this article is literature review.
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    The comparison of functional connectivity in Parkinson’s Disease patients with and without Parkin gene mutations
    (Turkish Neuropsychiatric Society, 2025-06-19) Çebi, Merve; Ay, Ulaş; Kıçik, Ani; Erdoğdu, Emel; Tepgeç, Fatih; Uyguner, Zehra Oya; Tüfekçioğlu, Zeynep; Samancı, Bedia; Bilgiç, Başar; Emre, Murat; Demiralp, Tamer; Hanağası, Haşmet Ayhan
    Introduction: Mapping the functional connectivity of brain regions became appealing in recent research in neurology. Accordingly, a growing body of evidence shows resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC) changes in neurodegenerative disorders including Parkinson’s Disease (PD). As characterised by extensive and progressive dopaminergic loss in the substantia nigra, PD emerges with serious motor and non-motor dysfunctions. In the literature, the minority of PD cases have been associated with certain genetic mutations. The aim of this study was to investigate the rsFC in a group of PD patients having Parkin gene mutation. Method: Twelve PD patients with Parkin mutation (PP-PD), 12 PD patients without Parkin mutation (PN-PD) and 12 healthy controls (HC) were included in the study. All participants underwent a resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging as well as a neuropsychological assessment and clinical examination. Results: Results indicated that PP-PD had longer disease duration, a higher rate of dyskinesia and lower scores on complex visual perception tests. The resting state networks showed that all PD (consisting of PP-PD and PN-PD) and PP-PD groups had increased functional connectivity in the frontoparietal network as compared to the HC. In addition, the PP-PD group displayed decreased functional connectivity in the dorsal attention network compared to the PN-PD. Conclusion: In conclusion, our data suggests that PD with Parkin gene mutation might be emerging with distinct resting state functional connectivity changes in the brain.
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    Investigation of symptom-specific functional connectivity patterns in Parkinson’s disease
    (Springer-Verlag Italia S.R.L., 2025-06-14) Kıçik, Ani; Bayram, Ali; Erdoğdu, Emel; Kurt, Elif; Sarıdede, Dilek Betül; Cengiz, Sevim; Bilgiç, Başar; Hanağası, Haşmet; Öztürk Işık, Esin; Gürvit, Hakan; Tüzün, Erdem; Demiralp, Tamer
    Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a complex neurodegenerative disease, characterized by pronounced heterogeneity in symptoms. This study investigates the functional connectivity (FC) patterns associated with distinct symptom clusters, aiming to elucidate the heterogeneity in PD and uncover the neural mechanisms underlying its motor and cognitive symptoms. Resting-state functional MRI (rs-fMRI) data from 55 non-demented PD patients and 24 healthy controls (HC) were used to perform seed-to-seed FC analyses. A clustering algorithm was applied to the cognitive and motor scores of all PD patients to generate relatively homogeneous symptomatic subgroups. PD patients exhibited a general decrease in FC within a network comprising the sensorimotor network (SMN) and the visual network (VN) regions. Symptom-based clustering revealed three relatively homogeneous subgroups, exhibiting a gradient pattern: patients with greater motor deficits showed significant disconnection within the SMN, whereas patients with greater visuospatial deficits exhibited reduced FC in an extended subnetwork, with pronounced disconnections between the VN and SMN areas. Our study demonstrated a notable disconnection between the SMN and VN, indicating impaired visual-motor integration in PD. Stronger disconnection within the SMN was associated with greater motor dysfunction, and stronger visual-sensorimotor disconnections were associated with greater visuospatial deficits. These findings suggest that at least two separate routes of functional disconnection may be responsible for the inhomogeneous symptom distribution in PD.