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CHDD Outlook - News from CHDD

Current Outlook Issues (2002 to Present)

Outlook Archive (1987-2001)

Kris Freeman, Writer and Editor, 206-543-4037

CHDD Outlook is published by the Center on Human Development and Disability (CHDD) at the University of Washington Health Sciences Center.

The following issues of CHDD Outlook are in pdf format.

Fall 2007
Vol. 18, #2
(.pdf)
  • New Joubert syndrome gene discovered
  • Helping families raise children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders
  • CHDD addresses complex legal and ethical issues related to growth limitation
  • Nicotine, dopamine, and behavior disorders
Spring 2007
Vol. 18, #1
(.pdf)
  • Hunting proteins to diagnose neurological disorders
  • Finding better treatments for emotional and behavioral disorders
  • Improving the mental health of Infants in foster care
  • Head Start Outreach: Training teachers in best practices
Summer 2006
Vol. 17, #2
(.pdf)
  • Supporting children's development by supporting families who are homeless
  • Deciphering viral defenses: CMV
  • Youth with FASD and the law: Helping them stay straight
  • Children with autism see faces differently: Brain scans may diagnose disorder in toddlers
  • Preventing infections, protecting the developing brain
  • Expanding medical care for children with autism spectrum disorders
  • Pediatric Neurogenetics team: Diagnosing rare disorders
  • Thousands of genes at a Time: microarray core component helps design microarray experiments
  • Implications of skull shape: Possible links between subtle malformations and developmental delays
  • Brain studies show distinctions in persons with FASD
  • Use of assistive technology by persons with spina bifida
  • Interdisciplinary team provides new diagnoses and insights for children in mental health treatment
  • Screening young children for later-onset hearing loss
  • Role of the p53 gene in neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disorders
  • Imaging the brain to help unravel autism's mysteries
  • Bright Futures for Early Childhood health initiative
  • Refining functional MRI analyses for more accurate results
  • CHDD and the Developmental Disabilities Council
  • Fragile X methylation and mosaicism: research advances
  • Promoting health in adults with developmental disabilities
  • Social workers as part of CHDD's interdisciplinary teams
  • Role of dopamine in movement disorders and addiction
  • Developmental consequences of infant-caregiver attachment
  • Distance learning program to promote children's oral health
  • Animal model of epilepsy arising from traumatic brain injury
  • Project ACCESS: Technology tools to assist people with cognitive disabilities
  • Treating Tourette syndrome
  • Functional MRI helps correlate FAS brain damage and functioning
  • Preventing behavior problems in Head Start preschoolers
  • Counseling and Advice on Reproductive Exposures: CARE Northwest
  • Possible role of Epo in preventing newborn brain damage from lack of oxygen
  • Nutrition and feeding problems
  • Joubert syndrome research
  • Immigrant and refugee children with developmental disabilities
  • Apoptosis: programmed cell death in neurons of the CNS
  • PKU Clinic
  • Pediatric Audiology Clinic
  • Huntington's disease research
  • Medical Genetics Clinic, Neurogenetics Clinic
  • Neural Plasticity
  • Dementia in HIV patients
  • Improving health care access for adults with developmental disabilities
  • Glial cell reactivity in traumatic brain injury and epilepsy
  • Interdisciplinary online training at CHDD
  • Tuberous sclerosis and epileptic seizures
  • Down syndrome: brains may be wired differently
  • Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) and new imaging techniques
  • Access-IT: Making information technology available to all
  • Center on Infant Mental Health and Development established
  • X chromosome inactivation
  • Craniofacial disorders
  • Legal rights of people with disabilities

Outlook archives (1987-2001)

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For more information, contact:
Kris Freeman
Writer and editor, CHDD Outlook
Center on Human Development and Disability
University of Washington
Box 357920
Seattle, Washington 98195-7920


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