Advancing knowledge of human development, developmental disabilities, and neurodegenerative diseases.
Clive Svendsen, PhD, was honored by the International Academy for Child Brain Development with its highest award, the Statuette with Pedestal. The award acknowledges exceptional contributions to the study of human development and is presented each spring at the annual dinner of the World Organization for Human Potential, held on the campus of the Institutes …
Richard Davidson, who has devoted his career to understanding how the brain regulates human emotions, is one of 100 prominent personalities featured by the magazine.
Rita Hohlstein, clinical associate professor for the University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities, received the Wisconsin Alumni Association Award for Excellence in Leadership.
If statistics compiled by the U.S. Department of Education are to be believed, in 1992 the state of Illinois had only 322 diagnosed cases of autism among school children. In 2003, according to the same statistical source, Illinois had more than 6,000 children diagnosed as autistic.
Five faculty members, including Christopher Coe of the Waisman Center, have received the 2006 Hilldale Awards, which annually recognize excellence in teaching, research and service.
As the prism of our senses, the human brain has ways of refracting sensory input in defiance of reality.
As theories about autism spread like wildfire in the media and the general public, a panel of autism experts will reflect on the validity of four widely held - and potentially inaccurate - assumptions about the developmental disability.
The Waisman Center's Early Childhood program was recently awarded a Wisconsin Idea Grant from the Ira and Ineva Reilly Baldwin Endowment.
Waisman researcher Seth Pollak, PhD, been selected as a recipient of the 2006 American Psychological Association (APA) Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology. As
One of the great challenges for treating Parkinson's diseases and other neurodegenerative disorders is getting medicine to the right place in the brain.
