Doug Dean III, PhD – Slide of the Week
Inhibitory control (IC) develops in stages from infancy through adolescence and is associated with numerous developmental disorders and learning outcomes.
October 10, 2025
Richard J Davidson, PhD – Slide of the Week
Asthma, a highly prevalent chronic inflammatory disease of the airways, results in an average of 10 deaths per day in the U.S., and psychological stress hinders its effective management.
September 26, 2025
Christopher L. Coe, PhD – Slide of the Week
Female monkeys were vaccinated with spike protein from the ancestral virus (Wuhan) or an early variant (Gamma). Their infants had high levels of maternal IgG at birth, which more specifically inhibited the virus against which their mother had been immunized.
September 22, 2025
Max McLachlan (Christian Lab) Slide of the Week
Adults with Down syndrome demonstrate striatum-first amyloid accumulation with [11C]Pittsburgh Compound-B (PiB) positron emission tomography (PET) imaging, which has not been replicated with [18F]florbetapir (FBP). Early striatal accumulation has not been temporally quantified with respect to global cortical measures.
September 15, 2025
Pelin Cengiz, MD – Slide of the Week
TrkB-mediated neuroprotection in female hippocampal neurons is autonomous, estrogen receptor alpha-dependent, and eliminated by testosterone: a proposed model for sex differences in neonatal hippocampal neuronal injury
August 29, 2025
Anita Bhattacharyya, PhD – Slide of the Week
Basal forebrain cholinergic neurons (BFCNs) are integral to learning, attention, and memory, and are prone to degeneration in Down syndrome (DS), Alzheimer's disease, and other neurodegenerative diseases.
August 8, 2025
Barbara B. Bendlin, PhD – Slide of the Week
The gut microbiome is a potentially modifiable risk factor for Alzheimer's disease (AD); however, understanding of its composition and function regarding AD pathology is limited.
August 1, 2025
Erik W. Dent, PhD – Slide of the Week
Neurite initiation from newly born neurons is a critical step in neuronal differentiation and migration.
July 18, 2025
Jenny Saffran, PhD – Slide of the Week
How do infants become word meaning experts? This registered report investigated the structure of infants' early lexical representations by manipulating the typicality of exemplars from familiar animal categories.
July 14, 2025
Kristin Shutts, PhD – Slide of the Week
Disciplines across the social and behavioral sciences have documented the critical role of early peer connections in children's development, yet mechanisms facilitating these connections have not been tested in controlled laboratory settings.
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