The most common cause of genetic neuropathy, classified as Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, is a 1.4 Mb duplication of the PMP22 gene.
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Masatoshi Suzuki, DVM, PhD – Slide of the Week
The myotendinous junction (MTJ) is an integrated structure that transduces force across the muscle-tendon boundary, making the region vulnerable to strain injury.
André Sousa, PhD – Slide of the Week
The granular dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) is an evolutionary specialization of primates that is centrally involved in cognition. We assessed more than 600,000 single-nucleus transcriptomes from adult human, chimpanzee, macaque, and marmoset dlPFC.
Ben Parrell, PhD – Slide of the Week
When individuals make a movement that produces an unexpected outcome, they learn from the resulting error.
Pelin Cengiz, MD – Slide of the Week
Neonatal hypoxia ischemia (HI) related brain injury is one of the major causes of life-long neurological morbidities that result in learning and memory impairments.
Caroline A Niziolek, PhD – Slide of the Week
How does cognitive inhibition influence speaking? The Stroop effect is a classic demonstration of the interference between reading and color naming.
James J. Li, PhD – Slide of the Week
ADHD polygenic scores (PGSs) have been previously shown to predict ADHD outcomes in several studies. However, ADHD PGSs are typically correlated with ADHD but not necessarily reflective of causal mechanisms.
Darcie L. Moore, PhD – Slide of the Week
Musashi1, a neural RNA binding protein, is important in translationally repressing target transcripts during quiescence in adult hippocampal neural stem cells
Marsha R. Mailick, PhD – Slide of the Week
Higher education has been shown to have neuroprotective effects, reducing the risk of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases, slowing the rate of age-related cognitive decline, and is associated with lower rates of early mortality.
Ruth Litovsky, PhD – Slide of the Week
Although cochlear implants (CIs) facilitate spoken language acquisition, many CI listeners experience difficulty learning new words.