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• Language Development in Fragile X Syndrome

• Maternal Emotional Well-Being and Fragile X Syndrome

Andrew Alexander, PhD (SAS)

• Diffusion MRI of the Human Brain

• Utah Autism Project

Craig Berridge, PhD  (MGS)

• Amphetamine-Like Stimulants: Norepinephrine and Behavior

John Brugge, PhD (MGS)

• Human Auditory Cortex Physiology

Christopher Coe, PhD  (MGS)

• Brain Development and Iron Deficiency

• Maternal Flu Infection and Brain Development in Primate

Alexander Converse, PhD (SAS)

• Simultaneous PET Imaging of rCBF and Dopamine Release

Richard J. Davidson, PhD  (SAS)

• Neural Substrates of Affective Style and Emotion Regulation

• Emotion Regulation and Affective Style: Neural Substrates

• Dysfunction of Affective Circuitry in Autism

Maureen Durkin, PhD (SAS)

• Epidemiology of SBCAD Deficiency in Hmong-Americans

Jan Edwards, PhD (CCS)

• Cross Language Investigation of Phonological Development

Susan Ellis Weismer, PhD (CCS)

• Linguistic Processing in Specific Language Delay

• Processing Abilities in Children with Specific Language Impairment

• Processing Abilities in Children with Reading Disabilities

Marilyn Essex, PhD (SAS)

• Longitudinal Associations, from Infancy to Adolescence, of Stress Exposure, Cortisol, and the Brain with Children's Affective Style and Symptoms

David Gamm, MD, PhD (MGS)

• Culture and Transplantation of Human Retinal Spheres

H. Hill Goldsmith, PhD (SAS)

• Longitudinal Twin Studies of Early Emotional Development

• A Twin Study of Autism Spectrum Disorder

• Longitudinal Twin Studies of Affective Style

Daniel Greenspan, PhD  (MGS)

• BMP-1-like Protease Effects on Growth Factors & Hormones

Katherine Hustad, PhD  (CCS)

• Effects of AAC Strategies on Dysarthric Speech

• Speech Development in Children with Cerebral Palsy

Jeffrey Johnson, PhD (MGS)

• Transcriptional Control of Antioxidant Genes in Brain

• The Nrf2-ARE Pathway in Modulating Parkinson’s Disease

Ned Kalin, MD (SAS)

• Development and Regulation of Emotion in Primates

Raymond Kent, PhD (CCS)

• Intelligibility Assessment in Dysarthria

Laura Knoll, PhD (MGS)

• Isolation and Characterization of T gondii Virulence Genes

Garet Lahvis, PhD (MGS)

• Exploring Endophenotypes of Mouse Social Behavior

Ruth Litovsky, PhD (CCS)

• Functional Abilities of Children with Bilateral Hearing

Marlys Macken, PhD (CCS)

• Acquisition and Structure of Hmong

James Malter, MD (MGS)

• APP mRNA Dysregulation and Alzheimer's Disease

Albee Messing, VMD, PhD (MGS)

• Alexander Disease: Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms - Project 2

• Is a Therapy for Alexander Disease Already FDA Approved?

• Molecular Mechanisms of Schwann Cell Myelination

Jon Miller, PhD  (CCS)

• Biological and Behavioral Variation in the Language Development of Spanish-Speaking Children

Denise Ney, PhD (MGS)

• Dietary Control of PKU with Glycomacropeptide from Whey

Terrence Oakes, PhD (SAS)

• Comparison of fMRI Analytic Tools

Julie Poehlmann, PhD (SAS)

• The Development of Self-Regulation in High Risk Infants

Seth Pollak, PhD (SAS)

• Emotion Processing: Risk for Psychopathology in Children

• Neurobehavioral Correlates of Early Deprivation

Jenny Saffran, PhD (CCS)

• Statistical Learning in Language Acquisition

• Statistical Learning in Language Acquisition

Gary Sandefur, PhD (SAS)

• Social Demography and Adolescent Obesity

Mary Schneider, PhD (SAS)

• Moderate Level Prenatal Alcohol Exposure in Primates

• Fetal Alcohol Effects in Monkeys Dopamine and Behavior

Mark Seidenberg, PhD (CCS)

• Age and Experience Dependent Processes in Learning

• Bases of Normal and Disordered Reading

Marsha Mailick Seltzer, PhD  (SAS)

• Impacts of Parenting Adolescents and Adults with Autism

• Life Course Impacts of Nonnormative Parenting

• Nonnormative Parenting Impacts in Midlife and Old Age

Lawrence Shriberg, PhD (CCS)  (SAS)

• Developmental Phonological Disorders

• Expressive and Receptive Prosody in Autism

• The Linguistic Phenotype in Familial Dyslexia

Kristen Slack, PhD (SAS)

• Income, Material Hardship, and Child Neglect

Susan Smith, PhD (MGS)

• Craniofacial Morphogenesis in Prenatal Alcohol

John Svaren, PhD (MGS)

• Genetic Control of Myelination by EGR2 and NAB Proteins

Randal Tibbetts, PhD  (MGS)

• Mechanisms of ATR Targeting and Regulation

Houri K. Vorperian, PhD (CCS)

• MRI & CT Studies of the Developing Vocal Tract

Jon A. Wolff, MD  (MGS)

• Gene Therapy for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

Jerry Yin, PhD (MGS)

• Spatial - Temporal Aspects of Drosophila Memory Formation

Su-Chun Zhang, MD, PhD (MGS)

• Neural Specification of Human Embryonic Stem Cells

• Stem Cell Therapy for Parkinson's Disease