Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neuromuscular disease in which patients gradually become paralyzed due to loss of motor function. Many genetically inheritable mutations have been linked to ALS; however, the majority of ALS patients are considered sporadic.
Year: 2022
Audra Sterling, PhD – Slide of the Week
This study examined the extent to which early intervention (EI) speech-language pathologists (SLPs) use and recommend language input strategies for caregivers of children with language delays and the child factors associated with these decisions.
André Sousa, PhD – Slide of the Week
Title: Single-cell gene expression analysis reveals signatures of adult neurogenesis in mouse, pig and macaque, but not in humans. Legend: A) Schematic of the analytic workflow. DG: dentate gyrus; CA: cornu ammonis; Sub: subiculum; EC: entorhinal …
James Li awarded the first A.A. Alexander Professorship
James Li, PhD, associate professor of psychology and a Waisman Center investigator, has been awarded the inaugural A.A. Alexander Professorship in recognition of his significant collaborations between the Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology at UW-Madison.
Krishanu Saha, PhD – Slide of the Week
Biomedical research has been revolutionized by the introduction of many CRISPR-Cas systems that induce programmable edits to nearly any gene in the human genome.
Jenny Saffran, PhD – Slide of the Week
Title: Toddlers make use of speaker’s genders while listening to words Legend: Toddlers viewed pairs of familiar objects selected to be prototypically male or female. As they listened to words referring to these objects, we …
Informe anual: Terapia de grupo del programa de tratamiento del autismo
Un vistazo al nuevo programa de terapia de autismo grupal del Waisman Center Por Emily Leclerc, Escritora Científica, Waisman Center Nota: Lizzie Oster prefiere que se refieran a ella como persona autista en lugar de …
New autism group therapy series changes lives
Elizabeth “Lizzie” Oster was 16 when she was diagnosed with autism. Most autistic people are diagnosed young, typically between the ages of four and five according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and can start treatment and therapy early. For Lizzie, this wasn’t how it went.
Seth Pollak, PhD – Slide of the Week
Learning the value of environmental signals and using that information to guide behavior is critical for survival. Stress in childhood may influence these processes, but how it does so is still unclear.
Luigi Puglielli, MD, PhD – Slide of the Week
Endoplasmic reticulum-based Nɛ-lysine acetylation serves as an important protein quality control system for the secretory pathway.