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  2. Tag: Slide of the Week

Slide of the Week

Audra Sterling, PhD

Posted on May 26, 2016

Title: Examining the Language Phenotype in Children with Typical Development, Specific Language Impairment, and Fragile X Syndrome Legend: Group performance on the Third Person Singular Probe and Past Tense Probe of the Test of Early …

Posted in Slide of the WeekTagged Audra Sterling, Fragile X Syndrome, Slide of the Week, Speech and Language

Leann Smith, PhD

Posted on May 18, 2016

Title: Age at menopause by CGG repeat length Legend: There was a significant curvilinear association between CGG repeat length and age at menopause (b = .003, p < .01). Neither maternal education nor smoking history …

Posted in Slide of the WeekTagged FMR1 Premutation, Fragile X Syndrome, Leann Smith DaWalt, Slide of the Week

Vanessa Simmering, PhD

Posted on May 9, 2016

Title: Four-year-olds’ selective production of verbal cues predicts their spatial skills Legend: (Top panel) Sample trials of spatial tasks children completed (A) mental transformations, (B) spatial analogies, (C) feature binding, and (D) picture rotation. (Bottom …

Posted in Slide of the WeekTagged Slide of the Week, Speech and Language, Vanessa Simmering

Kristin Shutts, PhD

Posted on April 25, 2016

Title: Young children’s automatic encoding of social categories Legend: Mean encoding scores at each age in each condition. One-sample t-tests comparing performance to chance (0) appear above each bar in the graph. Error bars depict …

Posted in Slide of the WeekTagged Kristin Shutts, Slide of the Week

Jenny Saffran, PhD

Posted on March 22, 2016

Legend: Results of a study in which toddlers learned new words in environments with different levels of background noise. The solid vertical line marks the onset of the target word. The dashed vertical line marks …

Posted in Slide of the WeekTagged Jenny Saffran, Language Development, Slide of the Week

Seth Pollak, PhD

Posted on March 7, 2016

Legend: The major foci in the brain that appear to show disparities in poor children are the hippocampus and frontal lobe. These 3D renderings depict the hippocampus in blue and the frontal lobe in red/yellow. …

Posted in Slide of the WeekTagged Poverty, Seth Pollak, Slide of the Week

Julie Poehlmann-Tynan, PhD

Posted on February 29, 2016

Legend: Change in HTKS total score by treatment group. Age of child controlled in analyses. DR dialogic reading only (TAU), MI mindfulness intervention Citation: Poehlmann-Tynan J, Vigna AB, Weymouth LA, Gerstein ED, Burnson C, Zabransky …

Posted in Slide of the WeekTagged Poverty, Slide of the Week

Albee Messing, VMD, PhD

Posted on February 15, 2016

TDP-43 mislocalization in a mouse model of Alexander disease Legend: Mislocalized TDP-43 colocalizes with GFAP in GfapR236H/+ mice. TDP-43 (red) and GFAP (green) immunolabeling in coronal brain sections from 10-week-old mice. Nuclei are labeled with DAPI (blue). In WT mice, TDP-43 is primarily …

Posted in Slide of the WeekTagged Albee Messing, Alexander disease, Slide of the Week

Douglas W. Maynard, PhD

Posted on February 8, 2016

Title: Parents as a Team: Mother, Father, a Child with Autism Spectrum Disorder, and a Spinning Toy Citation: Douglas W. Maynard, T A McDonald, Trini Stickle. (2015) Parents as a Team: Mother, Father, a Child …

Posted in Slide of the WeekTagged Douglas Maynard, Slide of the Week

Marsha R. Mailick, PhD

Posted on February 1, 2016

Legend: Fig. 1. Frequency of specific CGG repeat lengths >40 for men and women. Citation: Maenner MJ, Baker MW, Broman KW, Tian J, Barnes JK, Atkins A, McPherson E, Hong J, Brilliant MH, Mailick MR. (2013). …

Posted in Slide of the WeekTagged FMR1 Premutation, Fragile X Syndrome, Marsha Mailick, Slide of the Week
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