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CDL physical therapy trainee, Catherine Alexander, has developed new materials to help parents encourage their children with ASD to stay active. The brochure entitled Let's Get Moving is available on the CDL website. Click here and scroll down to find the Let's Get Moving heading.
November 9, 2009
Exciting New Funding at the CIDD
A Family-Genetic Study of Language in Autism (to be funded through NIDCD)
PI: Molly Losh (Dept. of Allied Health Sciences, UNC Chapel Hill)
The principal aim of this study is to identify genetically meaningful language phenotypes among individuals with autism and their family members, for use in genetic studies and for target in future intervention work. Analyses will examine developmental-longitudinal language profiles among relatives, along with objectively defined computational linguistic and psycholinguistic measures of discourse processing among individuals with autism and their family members.
September 25, 2009
In an article published in the prestigious journal Neuron, NDRC postdoctoral fellow Adam Roberts demonstrates that NR3A is an inhibitory regulator of synapse maturation and plasticity during early periods of brain development (link to article). This insight may help us understand synapse and memory dysfunctions associated with schizophrenia and a variety of neurodevelopmental disorders. This work was featured as a “Must Read” in Faculty of 1000.
August 24, 2009
This August, Dr. Greg Olley of the Center for Development and Learning became President of the Division on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities of the American Psychological Association. Also in August, Dr. Olley was elected Vice-Chair of the North Carolina Commission on Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse Services.
August 21, 2009
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Tue, Dec 812:00 PM to 1:30 PM
Investigator Forum
Jane Fan, MD will be giving a talk about the Advances and Challenges in Gene Therapy for Muscular Dystrophy.
For more information, please contact ...
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Thu, Jan 2812:00 PM to 1:30 PM
Investigator Forum
Kim Huber, PhD will visit UNC at Chapel Hill from UT Southwestern to give a talk on Regulation of Synaptic Development and Plasticity by Fragile X Men...
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Tue, Feb 912:00 PM to 1:30 PM
Investigator Forum
Pat Sullivan, MD, FRANZCP will give a talk on Genome-wide Findings for Autism and Other Psychiatric Disorders.
For more information, please contac...
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Tue, Mar 1612:00 PM to 1:30 PM
Investigator Forum
David Mandell, ScD will visit UNC at Chapel Hill from University of Pennsylvania to give a talk on the Outcomes from the Philadelphia Autism Instructi...
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