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.
Kevin Ess, M.D., Ph.D., is Gerald M. Fenichel Chair in Neurology and associate professor of Pediatrics, Cell & Developmental Biology, and Neurology, as well as director of the Division of Pediatric Neurology. This year, he is…
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Researchers at the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center are on a quest to increase health care capacity for adults with autism by bringing quality care into their communities. Through a new grant provided by the Department of Defense,…
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ACM Lifting Lives® and the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center (VKC) partnered again to bring a week of country music and research to campers with Williams syndrome. 2019 marks the 10th year of the ACM Lifting Lives Music…
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Carissa Cascio, Ph.D., is a Vanderbilt Kennedy Center (VKC) Investigator and associate professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences. Her work focuses on the neural basis of sensory processing differences in children and adults with autism. She…
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Vanderbilt Kennedy Center (VKC) Director Jeffrey Neul, M.D., Ph.D., and colleagues studied the safety and effectiveness of the drug trofinetide in female children and adolescents (age 5-15) with Rett syndrome (RTT). Findings were recently published in…
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