Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) causes blindness due to loss of retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) and photoreceptors (PRs), which comprise the two outermost layers of the retina.
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Susan Ellis Weismer, PhD – Slide of the Week
Title: Spatial Language and Cognition in Autistic Preschoolers Legend: Model predictions for the relationship between nonverbal spatial cognition (as measured by MSEL Visual Reception T-scores) and total child spatial words at visit 1 (30 months), …
Haley Dresang, PhD – Slide of the Week
Title: Semantic but not sensory-motor neural routes are shared across language and action domains Legend: Figure A – Compared to matched neurotypical (NT) participants, patients with left-hemisphere cerebrovascular accident (LCVA) imitated unnamed meaningful gestures more …
Maureen S. Durkin, PhD, DrPH – Slide of the Week
Autistic people are often described as “low-” or “high-functioning” based on their scores on cognitive tests. These terms are common in publications and in everyday communication.
Richard J Davidson, PhD – Slide of the Week
Accumulating evidence indicates that asthma has systemic effects and impacts brain function.
Douglas C Dean, III, PhD – Slide of the Week
Title: Gray matter microstructure differences in autistic males: A gray matter based spatial statistics study Citation: DiPiero, M. A., Surgent, O. J., Travers, B. G., Alexander, A. L., Lainhart, J. E., & Dean Iii, D. …
Christopher L. Coe, PhD – Slide of the Week
The relative abundance of only some taxa (e.g., Bifidobacteriaceae) were specifically associated with progesterone.
Brad Christian, PhD – Slide of the Week
The extent to which amyloid-β burden and neurofibrillary tau tangle burden are associated with synaptic degeneration in vivo is not well known.
Randolph Ashton, PhD – Slide of the Week
Our inability to derive the neuronal diversity that comprises the posterior central nervous system (pCNS) using human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) poses an impediment to understanding human neurodevelopment and disease in the hindbrain and spinal cord.
Anita Bhattacharyya, PhD – Slide of the Week
Structural pathologies, such as brain, are present at birth in Down syndrome (trisomy 21), reflecting embryonic origins that are generally associated with smaller organs or reduced growth.