Two years ago Richard Davidson challenged video game manufacturers to develop games that emphasize kindness and compassion instead of violence and aggression.
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Editorial: Swing for the Waisman Center
It’s an amazing place, studying causes and potential treatments for conditions like autism, Alzheimer’s and seizure disorders.
Waisman Center Researchers Shape Stem Cell Landscape
Read about researchers making major breakthroughs in stem cell work.
CDC estimates 1 in 88 children in United States has been identified as having an autism spectrum disorder
Autism spectrum disorders are almost five times more common among boys than girls – with 1 in 54 boys identified.
Professor works with kids and their families to get better use of their cochlear implants
Ruth Litovsky and her team at the Waisman Center work with kids and their families from across the country to get better use of their cochlear implants.
Speaker to shed light on how children interact
My own research is really interested in how kids think about themselves and other people as members of different social groups, and the kind of information that’s salient to them very early in development, and what might give rise to other kinds of categories and distinctions later.
Stem cells hint at potential treatment for Huntington’s disease
GABA neurons are the brain cells whose degradation causes Huntington’s disease, a condition characterized by severely degraded motor function, among other things.
Scientists Produce Eye Structures from Human Blood-Derived Stem Cells
For the first time, scientists at the UW-Madison have made early retina structures containing proliferating neuroretinal progenitor cells using induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells derived from human blood.
In new book, leading neuroscientist describes your brain on emotion
Building on more than 30 years of cutting-edge brain research, a new book by Richard J. Davidson offers an inside look into how emotions are coded in our brains and our power to control them.
Appleton Education Foundation Program looks at early childhood development
Parents have little access to research on early childhood development, something the Appleton Education Foundation hopes to rectify with this year’s Community Education Program.