University of Wisconsin–Madison

Year: 2007

Waisman Center Opens Early Autism and Communication Research Clinic (EACRC)

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The Waisman Center’s newest clinic will help researchers learn more about language development in young children newly diagnosed with autism. The Early Autism and Communication Research Clinic (EACRC), co-directed by Susan Ellis Weismer and Morton Gernsbacher, provides developmental, communication, and diagnostic evaluation services to children between ages 2 and 3 years old who have been …

Fragile X protein may play role in Alzheimer’s disease

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A brain afflicted by severe Alzheimer's disease is a sad sight, a wreck of tangled neural connections and organic rubble as the lingering evidence of a fierce internal battle.

Study profiles rate of autism in Wisconsin

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A Wisconsin autism surveillance project reported today (Feb. 8) that approximately five out of every 1,000 Wisconsin children born in 1994 display symptoms indicative of autism.