Advancing knowledge of human development, developmental disabilities, and neurodegenerative diseases.
By pumping a potent growth factor directly into the human brain, an international team of scientists and surgeons has demonstrated significant remediation of the debilitating symptoms of patients with Parkinson’s disease.
The University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD) at the Waisman Center has just released its final report about last fall’s Invitational Conference on Health Disparities and Developmental Disabilities in Wisconsin. The 36-page report, A Wisconsin Blueprint to Improve the Health of Individuals with Developmental Disabilities, provides background information on health disparities and lists …
Micha Wiggins and her mother Doty not only travelled a long way-from Dallas, Texas-to visit Ruth Litovsky’s lab on March 10 and 11, they also had made a long personal journey to arrive at this point. Micha was diagnosed as profoundly deaf at 10 months, recei ved her first cochlear implant at age four, underwent …
Richard J. Davidson, Ph.D., William James and Vilas Research Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry, and director of the W.M. Keck Laboratory for Functional Brain Imaging and Behavior at the Waisman Center, received the 2003 Distinguished Investigator Award from the National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression. The award acknowledges Davidson’s innovative research at the …
