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.
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Darcie L. Moore, PhD – Slide of the Week
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.
Kimberly L. Edwards (Gamm Lab) – Slide of the Week
Outer retinal degenerative diseases (RDDs) and injuries leading to photoreceptor (PR) loss are prevailing causes of blindness worldwide.
Ruth Litovsky, PhD – Slide of the Week
Individuals with Down syndrome (DS) have a higher incidence of hearing loss (HL) compared with their peers without developmental disabilities.
Margarita Kaushanskaya, PhD – Slide of the Week
Children born preterm are at an elevated risk of language delays compared to children born full-term.
Austin Pier (Gomez laboratory) – Slide of the Week
Re-expression of Halo-TSC2 for 1 DIV in TSC2-/- cortical neurons reduces hyper-phosphorylated S6 and increased neurite length
Jennifer U. Soriano, MS (Hustad Lab) – Slide of the Week
Listeners had increased levels of fatigue when they heard dysarthric speech relative to non-dysarthric speech.
Sigan Hartley, PhD – Slide of the Week
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.
Tracy L. Hagemann, PhD – Slide of the Week
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 …
Lauren Bishop, PhD – Slide of the Week
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.