The Evjue Foundation, the charitable arm of the Capital Times, has awarded the Waisman Center $8,000 to expand the accessibility and reach of its free, community-oriented Day with the Experts series. The four Waisman Center …
Year: 2016
Thoughts of Gratitude: Dan Campbell
Dan Campbell passed away recently. He was a prolific artist and contributed many pieces of his work to the Waisman Center’s Harvey A. Stevens Collection of Art by People with Disabilities. Dan and his family …
Masatoshi Suzuki, DVM, PhD
Title: Skeletal muscle cells derived from human pluripotent stem cells Legend: Suzuki lab recently initiated a new project to establish skeletal muscle progenitor/stem cells derived from human pluripotent sources. Our culture method can produce skeletal …
Novel mouse model sheds new light on autism spectrum disorder
A new mouse model, developed by researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, is the first to show that when more of a specific biological molecule moves between different parts of nerve cells in the mouse brain, it can lead to behaviors that resembles some aspects of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in humans.
Audra Sterling, PhD
Title: Examining the Language Phenotype in Children with Typical Development, Specific Language Impairment, and Fragile X Syndrome Legend: Group performance on the Third Person Singular Probe and Past Tense Probe of the Test of Early …
Thoughts of Gratitude: The Rijkaarts
May 18, 2016 Adityarup “Rup” Chakravorty, Waisman Communications Jelte Rijkaart is 10 years old, with a ready smile, dark brown hair and warm brown eyes. He enjoys hanging out with people, especially his brother Roan. …
Leann Smith, PhD
Title: Age at menopause by CGG repeat length Legend: There was a significant curvilinear association between CGG repeat length and age at menopause (b = .003, p < .01). Neither maternal education nor smoking history …
Vanessa Simmering, PhD
Title: Four-year-olds’ selective production of verbal cues predicts their spatial skills Legend: (Top panel) Sample trials of spatial tasks children completed (A) mental transformations, (B) spatial analogies, (C) feature binding, and (D) picture rotation. (Bottom …
Research tackles communication disorders in kids
It has been said that communication is the essence of human life.
In fact, our ability to communicate an unlimited number of thoughts and ideas separates humans from all other creatures.
Researchers track critical developments in the young brain
Much like electricity traveling down wires, nerve impulses in our brain travel along nerve fibers. And just as wires need insulation to function well, nerve fibers, too, rely on a kind of insulation called myelin, a fatty substance that protects them and increases the speed at which nerve impulses travel.