Advancing knowledge of human development, developmental disabilities, and neurodegenerative diseases.
The telegram from President John F. Kennedy to University of Wisconsin President Fred Harrington was both eerie and visionary. Eerie because it was delivered Nov. 20, 1963 – just two days before Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas – and visionary because it seemed to anticipate the challenges confronting science in its quest to explore the human brain.
Giizhik Klawiter has never been so much as a visitor to the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Waisman Center, but the 10-year-old boy with autism from Hayward, Wis., is one of the most faithful supporters of the center's developmental disabilities research.
Autism spectrum disorders are almost five times more common among boys than girls – with 1 in 54 boys identified.
Some of you may think I'm jumping the gun here.
Last fall, the Waisman Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison bid successfully for the same National Institutes of Health core grant that the late Harry Waisman first won 45 years ago.
Marsha Mailick Seltzer received one of 47 grants awarded by Autism Speaks
Seltzer, an autism expert at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, studies how lifelong caregiving affects the well-being of parents and siblings of individuals with disabilities, including autism.
Smith received the grant to support a pilot study that will test the effectiveness of "Transitioning Together," an adolescent-and-family intervention for reducing stress and improving coping strategies during the transition to adulthood.
The research of Marsha Mailick Seltzer, PhD, was recently cited by Autism Speaks Chief Science Officer Geri Dawson, Ph.D., as part of a review of major scientific advances in autism research in 2010.
Scientists using diffusion tensor imaging have been able to identify individuals with autism 94% of the time
