Our research study is investigating how children’s brains process speech and how hearing loss during childhood influences the processing of speech. In this study, 5-17-year-old children with normal hearing and hearing loss will undergo a …
Christopher L. Coe, PhD – Slide of the Week
Title: Maternal perceived stress during pregnancy increases risk for low neonatal iron at delivery and depletion of storage iron at one year of age. Citation: Rendina D, Blohowiak S, Coe C, Kling P. Maternal perceived …
Time-to-degree improves again, setting record
Undergraduates at the University of Wisconsin–Madison are taking less time to complete their degrees, setting a record on a key measure of student success. The average time-to-degree for 2018-19 bachelor’s degree recipients was 3.96 elapsed calendar years, the lowest since the university began actively tracking the measure in the 1980s and the first time the number has dropped below four years, according to the university’s Office of Academic Planning and Institutional Research.
Lauren Bishop, PhD – Slide of the Week
We have seen a profound increase in lifespan for individuals with Down syndrome (DS) in the past few decades leading to a large and somewhat understudied population of middle- and older aged adults with DS. One health condition consistently seen in clinic-based DS samples is dementia (including Alzheimer’s disease).
In Wisconsin, 3 in 5 people with Down syndrome diagnosed with dementia by age 55
By Kelly April Tyrrell Not so many years ago, people with Down syndrome rarely survived to middle age. Many died young due to heart problems associated with the congenital condition. Today, advances in treatment have …
Bradley T Christian, PhD – Slide of the Week
Title: Amyloid load in the Down syndrome population measured with [11C]PiB PET Legend: Down syndrome-specific [11C]PiB PET template images of Aβ carrying capacity and radiotracer nonspecific binding derived from PET images of 169 individuals. Tissue maps …
Whole Exome Sequencing Illuminates Genetic Condition
If you ask David Seamans what his favorite thing to do is, he’ll pause thoughtfully for a moment before responding, “Everything.” He really does mean everything
Sriram Boothalingam, PhD – Slide of the Week
The auditory brainstem reflex tag-team: panel A is a schematic of the neural connections between two brainstem auditory reflexes, the medial olivocochlear (MOCR) and the middle ear muscle (MEMR) reflex. While we know that the two reflexes work in tandem and at slightly different frequencies and input sound levels, how the activity of one reflex influences the other is poorly understood.
21st century medicine helps Amish deal with rare, inherited illnesses
By David Tenenbaum Editor’s note: A recent article in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported on Dr. James DeLine’s work with the Wisconsin Amish community. This story describes how UW–Madison and the Wisconsin Partnership Fund are …
Anita Bhattacharyya, PhD – Slide of the Week
To identify mechanisms that lead to neurodevelopmental differences in Down syndrome, we used induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) generated from individuals with Down syndrome and differentiated them into progenitors of the cerebral cortex. The progenitors were analyzed by RNA Seq at Day 17 in culture when cells have acquired their positional phenotype.