Advancing knowledge of human development, developmental disabilities, and neurodegenerative diseases.
Waisman Center Director, Albee Messing, is collaborating with researchers at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia to better understand the progression of Alexander disease, a rare and fatal neurological disorder with no known cure. In a news story in the Belleville News-Democrat, Messing said that the study has already led scientists to several breakthroughs in …
Change in the Behavioral Phenotype of Adolescents and Adults with FXS: Role of the Family Environment Legend: Figure 1 displays the significant age by time interaction for adaptive behavior in a sample of 147 individuals with fragile X syndrome. There was significant improvement in adaptive behavior over time for individuals in the sample who were …
Waisman Center Director, Albee Messing, VMD, PhD, was recently featured in the Know Your Madisonian column by David Wahlberg in the Wisconsin State Journal. To read the full interview, please click here. David Wahlberg, Wisconsin State Journal
Sam Thompson is two-and-a-half years old and a super-charged giver of hugs.His green eyes sparkle as he first embraces his physician, Jessica Scott Schwoerer, and then his dietitian, Nikki Drilias. Then it’s a quick, laughter-filled sprint across the room to his parents, Josh and Angie, who also get huge hugs. Sam is at the Waisman …
Working memory is a basic cognitive process that predicts higher-level skills. A central question in theories of working memory development is the generality of the mechanisms proposed to explain improvements in performance.
A new version of Symantec Endpoint Protection is being pushed out to Waisman PCs this week from DoIT. The updates have been scheduled to occur sometime between 7:00 PM and 2:30 AM, but it is uncertain which day will be picked for each PC. If prompted, you will have the ability to postpone the update, …
Microsoft .NET Framework v. 4.7 is being installed on Waisman PCs. This runtime resource is used by a variety of miscellaneous applications. The v. 4.7 release includes several stability and security updates.
Millions of people globally are at high risk for neurodegenerative disorders, infertility or having children with a disability as a result of the Fragile X (FX) premutation, a genetic abnormality in FMR1 that is underdiagnosed.
How much information can we extract from a five-minute recording of someone talking? Enough to tell whether that individual may be genetically predisposed to some health complications, according to researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Waisman Center and Wisconsin Institute for Discovery. In a new study published this month in Scientific Reports, the researchers used …
Probability Learning: Changes in Behavior Across Time and Development Legend: Left: For each trial in the task, a coin was hidden behind a rock, and participants had to guess where the coin was. There was a pattern to be learned across trials: Coins most often appeared behind Rock 5 (70% of the time), followed by …
