Advancing knowledge of human development, developmental disabilities, and neurodegenerative diseases.
¿Qué es el Estudio HBCD? El Estudio HBCD inscribirá a un conjunto grande de familias participantes de todos los Estados Unidos y hará un seguimiento a estas familias y a sus hijos durante la primera infancia. Los investigadores quieren comprender mejor cómo se desarrolla el cerebro y cómo se ve afectado por la exposición a …
What is the HBCD Study? The HBCD Study will enroll a large cohort of participating families from across the U.S. and follow them and their children through early childhood. The researchers want to better understand how the brain develops and is affected by exposure to substances and other environmental conditions during pregnancy and after birth. …
In a lab near UW Hospital, Megan Jandy grows stem cells from people with Down syndrome — 10 batches of cells, most in three-dimensional clusters, each batch featuring one group with the extra chromosome that causes the disorder and one group without it.
The microenvironment of developing neurons is a dynamic landscape of both chemical and mechanical cues that regulate cell proliferation, differentiation, migration, and axon extension.
Tiny but mighty is a good way of describing our genome – the collection of our DNA. Although not visible to the naked eye, the human genome holds around 21,000 genes and millions of DNA variants, containing the information needed to maintain an organism throughout its life.
Title: Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Evaluation of Corticospinal Circuitry in Babies with Early Life Brain Injuries. Legend: Cameron Casey, Alina Grimaldo, Ellen Sutter, Veronika Mak, Preston Christopher, Bernadette Gillick. “Assessment of Corticospinal Tract Circuitry Through Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and Motor Evoked Potentials” UW Pediatric Research Week Symposium, May 2023, Madison, WI. Citation: Graphical representation of …
Fragile X syndrome, the most common form of inherited intellectual disability, may be unfolding in brain cells even before birth, despite typically going undiagnosed until age 3 or later.
Allison and Amber Westemeier get excited every time they take a trip to the Waisman Center from Oshkosh, WI.
David Egan, born with Down syndrome at St. Mary’s Hospital in Madison in 1977, has spent much of his life proving that there isn’t much he — or others with intellectual disabilities — can’t do, given an opportunity.
The Plain Community (PC) is a medically underserved group found predominantly in the northeastern and midwestern USA.
