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Latest Boys Town Publications Influence of Child-Level Factors and Lexical Characteristics on Vocabulary Knowledge of Children With Cochlear Implants and Hearing Aids - Recent studies indicate children who are deaf and hard of hearing who use cochlear implants or hearing aids know fewer spoken words than their peers with typical hearing, and often those vocabularies differ in composition. To date, however, the interaction of a child's auditory profile with the lexical characteristics of words he or she knows has been minimally explored. The purpose of the present study is to evaluate how audiological history, phonological memory, and overall vocabulary... More... Distinct age-related alterations in alpha-beta neural oscillatory activity during verbal working memory encoding in children and adolescents - Emerging imaging studies of working memory (WM) have identified significant WM-related oscillatory events that are unique to each phase of working memory (e.g. encoding, maintenance). Although many previous imaging studies have shown age-related changes within the frontoparietal network when performing a WM task, understanding of the age-related changes in the oscillatory dynamics underlying each phase of WM during development and their relationships to other cognitive function is still in its... More... EV DNA from pancreatic cancer patient-derived cells harbors molecular, coding, non-coding signatures and mutational hotspots - DNA packaged into cancer cell-derived EV is not well appreciated. Here, we uncovered signatures of EV DNA secreted by pancreatic cancer cells. The cancer cells and non-cancer counterparts exhibit distinct low vs. high molecular weight (LMW vs. HMW) EV DNA fragments distribution, respectively. Genome sequencing and Single Nucleotide Variants analysis revealed that 95% of reads and 94% of SNVs map to noncoding regions of the genome. Given that ~1% of the human genome represents coding regions, the... More... Altered Functional Connectivity Dynamics Serving Cognitive Flexibility in Regular Cannabis Users - Despite its widespread use and popularity, cannabis is known to impact higher order cognitive processes such as attention and executive function. However, far less is known about the impact of chronic cannabis use on cognitive flexibility, a component of executive function, and this is especially true for the underlying functional connectivity dynamics. To address this, we enrolled 25 chronic cannabis users and 30 demographically matched non-users who completed an interview probing current and... More... Healthy aging is associated with altered visual gamma band onset and offset responses - Gamma oscillations have been shown to be critical for basic sensory processing, as well as visual attention and several other higher-order cognitive functions. Aberrant gamma oscillations have also been shown in neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative diseases. Despite the possible clinical implications of altered gamma activity and emerging stimulation-based interventions targeting gamma, research into age-related changes in gamma oscillatory activity in healthy adults remains sparse. In the... More... View All Boys Town Published Research

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  Groundbreaking Imaging Suite Opens at Boys Town National Research Hospital

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  An “Experimental Station” - Youth Care Research at Boys Town

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  Boys Town Research Paper Named Editor’s Choice by The Journal of Pathology

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  Over-the-Counter Hearing Aids on the Way by Fall

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  Change Lives and Earn Money

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  Boys Town National Research Hospital has been Awarded a $12.5 Million COBRE Grant to Study Pediatric Brain Health

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