Advancing knowledge of human development, developmental disabilities, and neurodegenerative diseases.
After an extensive national search, the Waisman Center is delighted to welcome Lily Wagner, PhD, BCBA, as the new director of the Autism and Developmental Disabilities Clinic.
Earlier beta-amyloid (Aβ) plaque accumulation and a higher prevalence of Alzheimer’s Disease is seen in the Down syndrome (DS) population due to the triplication of chromosome 21 containing the amyloid precursor protein (APP) gene.
Bilingual children can be flexible in the ways they learn two languages simultaneously.
Los niños bilingües pueden ser flexibles en la forma en la que aprenden dos idiomas simultáneamente. Aunque el ritmo de aprendizaje puede diferir entre estrategias, los niños pueden aprender palabras nuevas tanto en inglés como en español en el mismo lapso de tiempo que aprenden palabras solo en inglés, según muestra un estudio nuevo . …
Formation of synapses, the connections among nerve cells, is a critical process in brain development.
One Waisman Center investigator and two graduate students awarded Fulbright scholarships
The neural correlates of predictive processing in language, critical for efficient sentence comprehension, is well documented in adults.
This investigation explores memory performance using the California Verbal Learning Test in relation to morphometric and connectivity measures of the memory network in severe traumatic brain injury.
Wargowski, after three decades of providing exceptional patient care to hundreds of patients in the Medical Genetics Clinics at Waisman, is retiring at the end of June.
Dendritic spines, the mushroom-shaped extensions along dendritic shafts of excitatory neurons, are critical for synaptic function and are one of the first neuronal structures disrupted in neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative diseases.
