Monthly Archives: June 2018

Friday Factoids Catch-Up: Having FUN on Internship

Posted on June 28, 2018 by Susan Vaught

Congrats!!! You have officially matched with your internship placement for next year and that means one more stressful process cannot be taken off your long to-do list before graduation.  But just like other portions of your graduate school career, the … Continue reading →

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Congratulations!

Posted on June 28, 2018 by Susan Vaught

Big giant hurrah for intern Crystal Henson, for successfully defending her dissertation!           Susan Redmond-Vaught, Ph.D. Director, WKPIC

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Friday Factoid Catch-Up: The Porcupine Dilemma

Posted on June 7, 2018 by Susan Vaught

Having a loved one with a mental illness can sometimes feel a lot like trying to love a porcupine. Schopenhauer and Freud have used a metaphor called the Porcupine Dilemma to describe what they feel is the state of the … Continue reading →

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Article Review: Sun, H., Takesian, A.E., Wang, T.T., Lippman-Bell, J.J., Hensch, T.K., Jensen, F.E. (2018). Early Seizures Prematurely Unsilence Auditory Synapses To Disrupt Thalamocortical Critical Period Plasticity

Posted on June 7, 2018 by Susan Vaught

New research from Sun et al. (2018) has discovered a link between seizures early in development and autism.  Notably, these seizures occur during a critical period for the primary auditory cortex, a section of the brain important to language development.  … Continue reading →

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