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Community Outreach Wisconsin/UCEDD – Slide of the Week

Posted on March 7, 2025

Many individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities present complex behavioral and mental health challenges that can take the form of aggression, self-injurious behavior, or property destruction.

Posted in Slide of the WeekTagged Community Outreach Program, Managing Threatening Confrontations, Slide of the Week, Statewide Training, UCEDD

Darcie L. Moore, PhD – Slide of the Week

Posted on February 28, 2025

Neural stem cells (NSCs) must exit quiescence to produce neurons; however, our understanding of this process remains constrained by the technical limitations of current technologies.

Posted in Slide of the WeekTagged Darcie Moore, Neural Stem Cells

Kimberly L. Edwards (Gamm Lab) – Slide of the Week

Posted on February 10, 2025

Outer retinal degenerative diseases (RDDs) and injuries leading to photoreceptor (PR) loss are prevailing causes of blindness worldwide.

Posted in Slide of the WeekTagged David Gamm, iPSC, Kim Edwards, Photoreceptors, Retinal organoids

Ruth Litovsky, PhD – Slide of the Week

Posted on February 3, 2025

Individuals with Down syndrome (DS) have a higher incidence of hearing loss (HL) compared with their peers without developmental disabilities.

Posted in Slide of the WeekTagged Down syndrome, hearing loss, Ruth Litovsky

Margarita Kaushanskaya, PhD – Slide of the Week

Posted on January 27, 2025

Children born preterm are at an elevated risk of language delays compared to children born full-term.

Posted in Slide of the WeekTagged Bilingual, Language Skills, Margarita Kaushanskaya, Monolingual, Preterm

Austin Pier (Gomez laboratory) – Slide of the Week

Posted on January 13, 2025

Re-expression of Halo-TSC2 for 1 DIV in TSC2-/- cortical neurons reduces hyper-phosphorylated S6 and increased neurite length

Posted in Slide of the WeekTagged Austin Pier, intracellular mechanisms, Tim Gomez

Jennifer U. Soriano, MS (Hustad Lab) – Slide of the Week

Posted on January 6, 2025

Listeners had increased levels of fatigue when they heard dysarthric speech relative to non-dysarthric speech.

Posted in Slide of the WeekTagged Dysarthria, Katie Hustad, Listening Fatigue

Sigan Hartley, PhD – Slide of the Week

Posted on December 13, 2024

Mean physical and behavioral depressive symptoms on the Reiss Screen of Maladaptive Behavior (RSMB) across four data collection cycles in sample of 262 adults with Down syndrome. Blue line is for those with low PET amyloid and green line for those with elevated PET amyloid.

Posted in Slide of the WeekTagged Alzheimer’s disease, Down syndrome, Psychiatric Symptoms

Tracy L. Hagemann, PhD – Slide of the Week

Posted on December 2, 2024

Title: Congruent gene expression in Alexander disease model mice and human Alzheimer’s disease Legend: (A) A Rank-Rank Hypergeometric Overlap (RRHO) heatmap comparing a composite gene expression portrait of human Alzheimer’s disease (AD, X axis) with …

Posted in Slide of the WeekTagged Alexander disease, Alzheimer’s disease

Lauren Bishop, PhD – Slide of the Week

Posted on November 18, 2024

Processing neural activity to reconstruct network connectivity is a central focus of neuroscience, yet the spatiotemporal requisites of biological nervous systems are challenging for current neuronal sensing modalities.

Posted in Slide of the WeekTagged Autism, Hospice, Lauren Bishop
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