¿Qué es el Estudio HBCD? El Estudio HBCD inscribirá a un conjunto grande de familias participantes de todos los Estados Unidos y hará un seguimiento a estas familias y a sus hijos durante la primera …
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The Healthy Brain and Child Development – HBCD – Study (Dean)
What is the HBCD Study? The HBCD Study will enroll a large cohort of participating families from across the U.S. and follow them and their children through early childhood. The researchers want to better understand …
UW effort to map Down syndrome brain raises prospect of treatment for disorder
In a lab near UW Hospital, Megan Jandy grows stem cells from people with Down syndrome — 10 batches of cells, most in three-dimensional clusters, each batch featuring one group with the extra chromosome that causes the disorder and one group without it.
Timothy M. Gomez, PhD – Slide of the Week
The microenvironment of developing neurons is a dynamic landscape of both chemical and mechanical cues that regulate cell proliferation, differentiation, migration, and axon extension.
Genomics and genetics cluster hire brings expansion into new research avenues
Tiny but mighty is a good way of describing our genome – the collection of our DNA. Although not visible to the naked eye, the human genome holds around 21,000 genes and millions of DNA variants, containing the information needed to maintain an organism throughout its life.
Bernadette Gillick, PhD, MSPT, PT – Slide of the Week
Title: Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Evaluation of Corticospinal Circuitry in Babies with Early Life Brain Injuries. Legend: Cameron Casey, Alina Grimaldo, Ellen Sutter, Veronika Mak, Preston Christopher, Bernadette Gillick. “Assessment of Corticospinal Tract Circuitry Through …
Discovery reveals mitochondria as potential treatment target for fragile X syndrome
Fragile X syndrome, the most common form of inherited intellectual disability, may be unfolding in brain cells even before birth, despite typically going undiagnosed until age 3 or later.
Understanding the connection between Down syndrome and Alzheimer’s disease
Allison and Amber Westemeier get excited every time they take a trip to the Waisman Center from Oshkosh, WI.
Thursday night’s keynote may be Madison native’s most meaningful speech yet
David Egan, born with Down syndrome at St. Mary’s Hospital in Madison in 1977, has spent much of his life proving that there isn’t much he — or others with intellectual disabilities — can’t do, given an opportunity.
UCEDD – Slide of the Week
The Plain Community (PC) is a medically underserved group found predominantly in the northeastern and midwestern USA.