Category: 2010

Artwork by people with developmental disabilities shines in airport exhibit

If there is evidence that each of us, in our mind’s eye, has a unique and valuable take on the world, it hangs on walls of UW–Madison’s Waisman Center.

Marsha Mailick Seltzer, PhD, comments on aging parents of adults with Down syndrome

The March 22, 2010 issue of USA Today features a story on the dilemma faced by aging parents of adults with Down syndrome.

The science of healthy minds brings Dalai Lama to UW-Madison

The Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Waisman Center will welcome His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama to its public grand-opening celebration Saturday-Sunday, May 15-16. UW–Madison neuroscientist Richard Davidson established the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds (CIHM) to scientifically determine how healthy qualities of mind develop and to investigate interventions to …

Induced neural stem cells: Not quite ready for prime time

Intriguingly, the new study suggests the presence or absence of the genes used to reprogram skin cells to become the blank slate pluripotent cells makes no difference in terms of their capacity to differentiate.

Marsha Mailick Seltzer, PhD, comments  on retracted autism study

The February 9, 2010 issue of The Capital Times features a story on the recent retraction of a 1998 journal article claiming a link between childhood vaccines and autism.

Federal grant funds production of stem cells for clinical trials

The long struggle to move the most versatile stem cells from the laboratory to the clinic got another boost with an $8.8 million contract award to the Waisman Clinical Biomanufacturing Facility at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Research by Marsha Mailick Seltzer cited in Autism Speaks 2010 year in review

The research of Marsha Mailick Seltzer, PhD, was recently cited by Autism Speaks Chief Science Officer Geri Dawson, Ph.D., as part of a review of major scientific advances in autism research in 2010.