Advancing knowledge of human development, developmental disabilities, and neurodegenerative diseases.
The microenvironment of developing neurons is a dynamic landscape of both chemical and mechanical cues that regulate cell proliferation, differentiation, migration, and axon extension.
Title: Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Evaluation of Corticospinal Circuitry in Babies with Early Life Brain Injuries. Legend: Cameron Casey, Alina Grimaldo, Ellen Sutter, Veronika Mak, Preston Christopher, Bernadette Gillick. “Assessment of Corticospinal Tract Circuitry Through Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and Motor Evoked Potentials” UW Pediatric Research Week Symposium, May 2023, Madison, WI. Citation: Graphical representation of …
The Plain Community (PC) is a medically underserved group found predominantly in the northeastern and midwestern USA.
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.
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), visit 2 (44 months) and visit 4 (66 months), adjusted for overall child language Citation: Prescott, K., Crespo, K., & …
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 accurately than meaningless gestures. This finding suggests that semantic information was beneficial, whereas there was no added benefit of labeling/naming …
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.
Accumulating evidence indicates that asthma has systemic effects and impacts brain function.
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. C. (2023). Gray matter microstructure differences in autistic males: A gray matter based spatial statistics study. NeuroImage. Clinical, 37, 103306. …
The relative abundance of only some taxa (e.g., Bifidobacteriaceae) were specifically associated with progesterone.
