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- Advanced Brain Imaging: Cannabis
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- Advancing Hearing Healthcare and Outcomes for Individuals with Down Syndrome Across the Lifespan
- Audiovisual Speech Enhancement in Children
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- Characterizing the Impact of Auditory Experience on Cognitive, Language, and Neural Outcomes in Children
- Children’s Skills Supporting Listening in Noise Study
- Developmental Changes in the Brain and Their Link to Psychiatric Traits
- Developmental Multimodal Imaging of Neurocognitive Dynamics (Dev-MIND)
- Effect of Age and Paradigm on Pediatric Sinusoidal Harmonic Acceleration Testing
- Five Memory Tests – A Remote Study
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- Modulation of Spontaneous Cortical Activity by tDCS: BRAIN Initiative I
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- Speech Recognition in Individuals with Cochlear Implants
- Testosterone and PTSD
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- Word Learning and Retention by Children with and without Developmental Language Disorder

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Yesha Lundberg, Ph.D., Director of the Vestibular Genetics Laboratory
Yinfang Xu, Ph.D., Senior Research Associate, yinfang.xu@boystown.org

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