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  2. Tag: Slide of the Week

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

Ruth Litovsky, PhD

Posted on January 15, 2016

Title: Listening effort, also known as cognitive load, is measured with pupil dilation (pupillometry). When speech sounds are degraded, people expend greater amount of ‘cognitive load’ to decipher the meaning of the speech. Legend: A:  …

Posted in Slide of the WeekTagged Ruth Litovsky, Slide of the Week

James Li, PhD

Posted on January 6, 2016

Title: Item Response Theory Analysis of ADHD Symptoms in Children with and without ADHD Legend: The “continuum” of ADHD in children. The IRT analysis shows that there is minimal clinical difference (i.e., within 1 standard …

Posted in Slide of the WeekTagged Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, James Li, Slide of the Week

Janet E. Lainhart, MD

Posted on December 21, 2015

Title: Longitudinal changes in cortical thickness in autism and typical development Legend: Abnormal age-related cortical thickness trajectories in ASD. Coloured brain regions identify significant group differences in age-related cortical thickness changes. Each scan is represented …

Posted in Slide of the WeekTagged Autism, Janet Lainhart, Slide of the Week

Margarita Kaushanskaya, PhD

Posted on December 14, 2015

Title: Effects of classroom bilingualism on task-shifting, verbal memory, and word learning in children Legend: Children who experienced two years of Spanish exposure in a dual-immersion classroom outperformed monolingual children when learning new made-up words …

Posted in Slide of the WeekTagged Language Development, Margarita Kaushanskaya, Rita Kaushanskaya, Slide of the Week

Jeffrey Johnson, PhD

Posted on November 23, 2015

Title: Increasing Nrf2 activity in astrocytes confers protection to Nrf2 knockout neurons Legend:  Nrf2 KO cultures were traduced with 50 MOI adenovirus-Nrf2-GFP or adenovirus-GFP 48 hours prior to H2O2 treatment.  Cultures were immunohistochemically analyzed following treatment with 50 µM …

Posted in Slide of the WeekTagged Jeffrey Johnson, Slide of the Week

Ed Hubbard, PhD

Posted on November 16, 2015

Title: Perceptual Ratio Processing Predicts Fractions Skills Legend: (Lay): College students were asked to decide which of two ratios were larger (examples in a-d) that were presented for 1.5 seconds. We show that people who …

Posted in Slide of the WeekTagged Ed Hubbard, Slide of the Week
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