The most common cause of genetic neuropathy, classified as Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, is a 1.4 Mb duplication of the PMP22 gene.
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Masatoshi Suzuki, DVM, PhD – Slide of the Week
The myotendinous junction (MTJ) is an integrated structure that transduces force across the muscle-tendon boundary, making the region vulnerable to strain injury.
André Sousa, PhD – Slide of the Week
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.
Kristin Shutts, PhD – Slide of the Week
Close peer relationships are critical to children’s and adolescents’ healthy development and well-being, yet youth sometimes struggle to make friends.
Jenny Saffran, PhD – Slide of the Week
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?
Luigi Puglielli, MD, PhD – Slide of the Week
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.
Seth Pollak, PhD – Slide of the Week
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 …
Tristan Mahr, PhD (Hustad Lab) – Slide of the Week
Intelligibility as a function of speaking rate and age in different utterance lengths
Ben Parrell, PhD – Slide of the Week
When individuals make a movement that produces an unexpected outcome, they learn from the resulting error.
Pelin Cengiz, MD – Slide of the Week
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.