News and Information from the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center
Notables is a monthly e-newsletter to share stories about discoveries and best practices that are opening doors and transforming lives for children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families.
Children with autism report higher rates of gender diversity — the way in which an individual experiences gender distinct from social norms for their gender assigned at birth — than their typically developing peers, Vanderbilt researchers…
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The Vanderbilt Kennedy Center has introduced two brand-new toolkits created to alleviate fear and stress in individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) when needlesticks are part of a medical appointment. One toolkit is designed for…
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The Vanderbilt Kennedy Center Treatment & Research Institute for Autism Spectrum Disorders (VKC TRIAD) announces the hiring of Adithyan Rajaraman, Ph.D., BCBA-D, LBA, as Director of Behavior Analysis Research. As an assistant professor in Pediatrics at Vanderbilt University…
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Vanderbilt Kennedy Center (VKC) member Anna Pfalzer, Ph.D., is research assistant professor of Neurology. Her research focuses on understanding the earliest molecular and cognitive changes in Huntington disease (HD). In the interview below, Pfalzer shares what…
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Associate professor of Pharmacology Colleen Niswender, Ph.D., who also is director of Molecular Pharmacology for the Warren Center for Neuroscience Drug Discovery (WCNDD) and a member of the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center (VKC), was awarded the ASPET…
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