Mean physical and behavioral depressive symptoms on the Reiss Screen of Maladaptive Behavior (RSMB) across four data collection cycles in sample of 262 adults with Down syndrome. Blue line is for those with low PET amyloid and green line for those with elevated PET amyloid.
Month: December 2024
Autism through midlife and into older age
Autistic adults may face changes in their autism symptoms, behavioral functioning, and health as they age, with some improving and some worsening, a new study shows. This insight may help autistic individuals and their families prepare and plan for the future.
Hearing loss and cognition both play a role in speech recognition for young adults with Down syndrome
For young adults with Down syndrome, understanding speech is not only related to hearing abilities, but it may also be impacted by cognition.
Impact Report 2024: Introduction
Dear Waisman Community: For more than 50 years the Waisman Center has been at the intersection of discovery and hope – forging new paths in research and clinical care. One of our strengths is the …
Advising research through the lens of lived experience: How individuals with disabilities and their families are shaping research
NOTE: Each individual interviewed for this story stated their preference between person-first or identity-first language. The language used reflects the preference of each person. Researchers interviewed use identity-first language in alignment with the preferences of …
Tracy L. Hagemann, PhD – Slide of the Week
Title: Congruent gene expression in Alexander disease model mice and human Alzheimer’s disease Legend: (A) A Rank-Rank Hypergeometric Overlap (RRHO) heatmap comparing a composite gene expression portrait of human Alzheimer’s disease (AD, X axis) with …