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.
Researchers from the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center Treatment and Research Institute for Autism Spectrum Disorders (VKC TRIAD) and partners from technology start-up Adaptive Technology Consulting have been awarded $1 million from the National Institute of Mental Health…
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Lisa Monteggia, Ph.D., is Barlow Family Director of the Vanderbilt Brain Institute, a Vanderbilt Kennedy Center Investigator, and professor of Pharmacology. Her research interests focus on the molecular and cellular basis of neural plasticity as it…
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Researchers from the Vanderbilt Genetics Institute and the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center (VKC) are partnering to examine how genes affect sleep and circadian disturbances in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) with a goal of creating a genetic risk…
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Vanderbilt Consortium LEND has seen a lot of change this year, including the installment of a new director, new program staff members, and growth within its cohort at East Tennessee State University. Among the changes is…
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Mutations in a subunit of a receptor that binds the major inhibitory neurotransmitter GABAA in the brain have been linked, through a common mechanism, to epilepsy, autism and intellectual disability, researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center…
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