Studies purporting to show changes in brain structure following the popular, 8-week mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) course are widely referenced despite major methodological limitations.
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Christopher Coe, PhD – Slide of the Week
Birth weight (BW) at delivery is an important developmental milestone indicative of prenatal conditions and portends of the postnatal growth trajectory that will occur during infancy and childhood.
Brad Christian, PhD – Slide of the Week
PET amyloid [11C]PiB imaging has revealed early detection of Aβ in the striatum in individuals with Down Syndrome (DS), a group carrying genetic risk for AD.
Pelin Cengiz, MD – Slide of the Week
The variability of severity in hypoxia ischemia (HI) induced brain injury among research subjects is a major challenge in developmental brain injury research.
Lauren Bishop, PhD – Slide of the Week
Assessing the impact of interdisciplinary training programs is highly desirable and needed. However, there are currently no established methods to prospectively assess long-term outcomes of trainees compared to individuals who did not receive training.
Xinyu Zhao, PhD – Slide of the Week
Neurodevelopmental impairment contributes to the hallmark cognitive disability in individuals with Down syndrome (DS, trisomy 21, T21).
Anita Bhattacharyya, PhD – Slide of the Week
The appearance of cognitive deficits in infancy suggests that alterations emerge during the earliest stages of neural development and continue throughout the lifespan in DS.
Barbara Bendlin, PhD – Slide of the Week
Insulin resistance (IR) has been related to reduced cerebral glucose metabolism in regions identified as hypometabolic in Alzheimer’s clinical syndrome. Insulin secretion (IS) has been less studied than IR despite findings that decreased IS is an early indicator of future type 2 diabetes and a potential predictor of Alzheimer’s clinical syndrome.
Timothy M. Gomez, PhD – Slide of the Week
Photoreceptors (PRs) are the primary visual sensory cells, and their loss leads to blindness that is currently incurable. Although cell replacement therapy holds promise, success is hindered by our limited understanding of PR axon growth during development and regeneration.
Andrew Alexander, PhD – Slide of the Week
Quantitative neuroimaging studies in twin samples can investigate genetic contributions to brain structure and microstructure