g-aminobutyric acid type A receptors that incorporate a5 subunits (a5-GABAARs) are highly enriched in the hippocampus and they are strongly implicated in the control of learning and memory.
Slide of the Week
Ben Parrell, PhD – Slide of the Week
Speakers were presented with different auditory perturbations to both vowels in the word “bedhead” (left panel); one vowel was altered toward the vowel /æ/ (“had”) and the other toward /ɪ/ (“hid”), with the order balanced across participants.
Caroline A Niziolek, PhD – Slide of the Week
Title: A single exposure to altered auditory feedback causes observable sensorimotor adaptation in speech Legend: A: The average first formant frequency (F1) trajectory for vowels that were spoken during (“compensation”; at left) or immediately after …
Tracy Hagemann, PhD – Slide of the Week
Alexander disease (AxD) is a devastating leukodystrophy caused by gain-of-function mutations in GFAP, and the only available treatments are supportive. Recent advances in antisense oligonucleotide (ASO) therapy have demonstrated that transcript targeting can be a successful strategy for human neurodegenerative diseases amenable to this approach.
Marsha Mailick, PhD – Slide of the Week
Title: Association between FMR1 CGG Repeat Number Polymorphism and Phenotypic Variation in the General Population Legend: Associations between CGG repeat lengths and phenotypes. (A) Linear association with IQ. (B) Linear association with college graduate (males only). (C) …
James Li, PhD – Slide of the Week
Title: A Gene‐Environment Interaction Study of Polygenic Scores and Maltreatment on Childhood ADHD Legend: The interaction between a categorized ADHD polygenic score (PGS) and maltreatment factor score was insignificant, although the main effects of both …
Ruth Litovsky, PhD – Slide of the Week
Our knowledge to date about structural brain development across the lifespan in ASD comes mainly from cross-sectional studies, thereby limiting our understanding of true age effects within individuals with the disorder that can only be gained through longitudinal research.
Janet E. Lainhart, MD – Slide of the Week
Our knowledge to date about structural brain development across the lifespan in ASD comes mainly from cross-sectional studies, thereby limiting our understanding of true age effects within individuals with the disorder that can only be gained through longitudinal research.
Margarita Kaushanskaya, PhD – Slide of the Week
The current study examined language control and code-switching in bilingual children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) compared to bilingual peers with typical language development (TLD). In addition, proficiency in each language and cognitive control skills were examined as predictors of children’s tendency to engage in cross-speaker and intra-sentential code-switching.
Katherine C. Hustad, PhD – Slide of the Week
For children with mild-moderate and severe intelligibility reduction, there was a large range of variability in parent ratings. For children with high intelligibility, ratings were consistent with intelligibility scores.