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John Svaren, PhD – Slide of the Week

Posted on May 10, 2024

The most common cause of genetic neuropathy, classified as Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, is a 1.4 Mb duplication of the PMP22 gene.

Posted in Slide of the WeekTagged Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 1A, dosage-sensitive genes, John Svaren, microRNAs, peripheral myelin protein 22-kD, post-transcriptional regulation, Slide of the Week

Masatoshi Suzuki, DVM, PhD – Slide of the Week

Posted on May 6, 2024

The myotendinous junction (MTJ) is an integrated structure that transduces force across the muscle-tendon boundary, making the region vulnerable to strain injury.

Posted in Slide of the WeekTagged In vitro modeling, Masatoshi Suzuki, Micropattern, myotendinous junction, Skeletal myocytes, Slide of the Week, Tenocytes

André Sousa, PhD – Slide of the Week

Posted on April 19, 2024

The granular dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) is an evolutionary specialization of primates that is centrally involved in cognition. We assessed more than 600,000 single-nucleus transcriptomes from adult human, chimpanzee, macaque, and marmoset dlPFC.

Posted in Slide of the WeekTagged André Sousa, inhibitory neurons, Slide of the Week

Kristin Shutts, PhD – Slide of the Week

Posted on April 12, 2024

Close peer relationships are critical to children’s and adolescents’ healthy development and well-being, yet youth sometimes struggle to make friends.

Posted in Slide of the WeekTagged Friendships, Kristin Shutts

Jenny Saffran, PhD – Slide of the Week

Posted on April 5, 2024

During word learning moments, toddlers experience labels and objects in particular environments. Do toddlers learn words better when the physical environment creates contrasts between objects with different labels?

Posted in Slide of the Week, UncategorizedTagged Eye Gaze, Jenny Saffran, Novel Objects, Novel Words

Luigi Puglielli, MD, PhD – Slide of the Week

Posted on April 1, 2024

Cytosolic citrate is imported from the mitochondria by SLC25A1, and from the extracellular milieu by SLC13A5. In the cytosol, citrate is used by ACLY to generate acetyl-CoA, which can then be exported to the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) by SLC33A1.

Posted in Slide of the WeekTagged Citrate Transporters, Luigi Puglielli, Progeria-like Phenotype

Seth Pollak, PhD – Slide of the Week

Posted on March 18, 2024

Title: Importance of Predictability for Children Citation: Xu, Y., Harms, M. B., Green, C. S., Wilson, R. C., & Pollak, S. D. (2023). Childhood unpredictability and the development of exploration. Proceedings of the National Academy of …

Posted in Slide of the WeekTagged Seth Pollak

Tristan Mahr, PhD (Hustad Lab) – Slide of the Week

Posted on March 8, 2024

Intelligibility as a function of speaking rate and age in different utterance lengths

Posted in Slide of the Week

Ben Parrell, PhD – Slide of the Week

Posted on March 4, 2024

When individuals make a movement that produces an unexpected outcome, they learn from the resulting error.

Posted in Slide of the WeekTagged Ben Parrell, Slide of the Week

Pelin Cengiz, MD –  Slide of the Week

Posted on February 23, 2024

Neonatal hypoxia ischemia (HI) related brain injury is one of the major causes of life-long neurological morbidities that result in learning and memory impairments.

Posted in Slide of the WeekTagged Brain Injury, Neonatal Hypoxia Ischemia (HI), Pelin Cengiz, Sex-Specific, Slide of the Week
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