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2012

Spotlight on: Leann Smith, ICTR Pilot Grant Recipient

Posted on February 21, 2012

The involvement of local community groups in research studies is a key step in connecting academic research to public health outcomes, and also one of the hardest.

Posted in 2012, News, Trainee

Autism and the adult child: Honoring the needs of every generation

Posted on February 11, 2012

Some of you may think I’m jumping the gun here.

Posted in 2012, Autism, News

New Down syndrome clinic offers expertise, support to families

Posted on February 9, 2012

American Family Children’s Hospital and the UW Waisman Center have joined forces to open a multidisciplinary Down syndrome clinic.

Posted in 2012, Clinics, News

How does the compassionate brain, measured in the lab, predict what occurs in real life?

Posted on February 1, 2012

Researchers are launching a new series of studies to understand how laboratory measures of virtuous qualities such as compassion relate to their behavior in the real world.

Posted in 2012, Emotions, News

The Waisman Center: Decades later, what would Harry think?

Posted on January 30, 2012

Last fall, the Waisman Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison bid successfully for the same National Institutes of Health core grant that the late Harry Waisman first won 45 years ago.

Posted in 2012, Alexander Disease, Autism, Brain Imaging, Down Syndrome, Neurodegenerative, Neurodevelopmental Disabilities, News, PKU, Research
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