Accurate use of interaural time differences (ITDs) for spatial hearing may require access to bilateral auditory input during sensitive periods in human development. Providing bilateral cochlear implants (CIs) simultaneously promotes symmetrical development of bilateral auditory pathways but does not support normal ITD sensitivity.
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Leann Smith DaWalt, PhD – Slide of the Week
Young adults with ASD in the intervention group experienced a reduction in behavior problems over a six month period. There was no change observed for the control group.
Richard Davidson, PhD – Slide of the Week
The ability to understand emotional experiences of others, empathy, is a valuable skill for effective social interactions. Various types of training increase empathy in adolescents, but their impact on brain circuits underlying empathy has not been examined. Video games provide a unique medium familiar and engaging to adolescents and can be used to deliver training at scale.
Randy Ashton, PhD – Slide of the Week
Transplantation of human pluripotent stem cell (hPSC)-derived neurons into chick embryos is an established preliminary assay to evaluate engraftment potential. Yet, with recent advances in deriving diverse human neuronal subtypes, optimizing and standardizing such transplantation methodology for specific subtypes at their correlated anatomical sites is still required.
Bradley Christian, PhD – Slide of the Week
Title: Amyloid and Tau PET Imaging in Down Syndrome Legend: Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging studies of amyloid and tau pathology in study subjects with Down syndrome. The PET scans demonstrate subjects with a wide range …
Qiang Chang, PhD – Slide of the Week
Title: Abnormal Calcium Homeostasis in Rett Syndrome Astrocyte Legend: (A) Representative GCaMP6s image showing two astrocytes in vivo. The somas and the processes could be clearly identified. Scale bars = 10 μm. (B) Representative ΔF/F0 traces …
Murray Brilliant, PhD – Slide of the Week
Title: Identification of Disease Markers Using Electronic Health Records Legend: Overview of the study design. Bayesian sparse linear mixed modelling (BSLMM) was used to compute single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) weights for 53 biomarkers from the ARIC …
Sriram Boothalingam, PhD – Slide of the Week
The auditory efferent system (ES) originates in the auditory cortex and terminates in the cochlea (inner ear). The activity of the ES has several hypothesized implications for human hearing: facilitating speech understanding in noisy environments, protecting the sensitive inner ear against loud noise, and serving as biological markers of damage in the auditory system.
Lauren Bishop-Fitzpatrick, PhD – Slide of the Week
Title: Using Machine Learning to Identify Patterns of Lifetime Health Problems in Decedents with Autism Spectrum Disorder Legend: This figure displays the distribution (kernel density estimate) of age of death for the full sample of adults …
Anita Bhattacharyya, PhD – Slide of the Week
Neuropathology of the Down syndrome cerebral cortex includes fewer interneurons in upper cortical layers.