Advancing knowledge of human development, developmental disabilities, and neurodegenerative diseases.
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.
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.
GABA neurons are the brain cells whose degradation causes Huntington's disease, a condition characterized by severely degraded motor function, among other things.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Some of you may think I'm jumping the gun here.
American Family Children's Hospital and the UW Waisman Center have joined forces to open a multidisciplinary Down syndrome clinic.
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.
