Advancing knowledge of human development, developmental disabilities, and neurodegenerative diseases.
Nature has outfitted us with a pair of ears for good reason: having two ears enhances hearing.
The Waisman Center’s newest clinic will help researchers learn more about language development in young children newly diagnosed with autism. The Early Autism and Communication Research Clinic (EACRC), co-directed by Susan Ellis Weismer and Morton Gernsbacher, provides developmental, communication, and diagnostic evaluation services to children between ages 2 and 3 years old who have been …
A brain afflicted by severe Alzheimer's disease is a sad sight, a wreck of tangled neural connections and organic rubble as the lingering evidence of a fierce internal battle.
A Wisconsin autism surveillance project reported today (Feb. 8) that approximately five out of every 1,000 Wisconsin children born in 1994 display symptoms indicative of autism.
Using neural stem cells derived from the fetal brains of rats, a team of Wisconsin scientists has devised a rudimentary blood-brain barrier in the lab.
Waisman researcher Maribeth Gettinger received a grant from the Institute on Race and Ethnicity for her organization of a campus reading group of books featuring racial/ethnic themes.
The brain's emotional center is unusually small in autistic males with the most severe behavioral impairments, University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers reported this month.
Medical geneticist Richard Pauli has made a career of helping families who have lost an infant to stillbirth.
Like most people, I'd never known anyone with the disorder or even heard anyone talk about it.
The story that Sandra Magana tells her social work classes is a tale of challenges and of how people rise to them.
