Kennedy Krieger Institute

Executive-Function Networks in Listening and Reading Comprehension: A Comparison of Children With SeLECTS, Children With Reading Difficulties, and Typical Readers

Children with Self-Limited Epilepsy with Centro-Temporal Spikes (SeLECTS) display deficits in both listening and reading comprehension, as well as in executive functions (EFs). The aim of the current study was to investigate differences in EF involvement—operationalized as the co...

Impact of training with transcutaneous spinal cord stimulation on performance in individuals with spinal cord injury

Date presented: April 24, 2026 Primary Author and Speaker: Lia Brunn, brunn@kennedykrieger.org

Vocational and Educational Outcomes in Adults With Sturge–Weber Syndrome: Preliminary Results From a Clinical Needs Assessment

ABSTRACT Objective The clinical presentation of Sturge–Weber syndrome (SWS) is highly variable, with seizures during infancy and co‑occurring neurodevelopmental conditions commonly reported. Although these features are known to affect childhood functioning, their relationship to...

Perceptions of Pharmacogenomic Testing Among People With Treatment Resistant Depression: Legitimization as a Facilitator of Acceptance.

Pharmacogenomic testing for psychiatric medications has been proposed as both an early intervention to optimize treatment response, and for use among patients who have tried multiple medications without symptom remission. Therefore, this testing may be particularly salient to the...

Lithium chloride in vitro treatment shows potential to rescue the neuronal phenotype caused by WDFY3 haploinsufficiency

We provide a comprehensive phenotypic characterization of loss-of-function (LoF) variants in WDFY3 based on the largest cohort reported to date (n = 32). Our findings define a monogenic disorder marked by neuropsychiatric features (including autism and ADHD), mild to moderate neu...

Caught between silence and truth: Graduate trainees' disclosures of microaggressions

Graduate training in school, clinical, and counseling psychology programs is often shaped by structural inequities that can harm racially minoritized trainees. Guided by Critical Race Theory, this qualitative study used counterstorytelling to explore how 10 racially minoritized g...

Between Hope and Harm: A Reflective Social Work Commentary in Pediatric Transplant Care

Pediatric healthcare depends on close collaboration among physicians, nurses, social workers, chaplains, child life specialists, therapists, interpreters, and transplant professionals. This reflect...

Impact of Radiation Therapy on Physical and Psychosocial Health of Adolescents and Young Adults: A Joint Report From the Children's Oncology Group AYA and Radiation Oncology Committees

ABSTRACT Rates of cancer among adolescents and young adults (AYA), age 15–39 years, are increasing. Consequently, radiation oncologists are treating more AYAs who have diagnoses spanning both pediatric and adult practices. Compared to pediatric and older adult patients, AYAs face...

Significance of perinatal trauma screening and care coordination to improve infant health outcomes

This commentary addresses the need for trauma-informed screening and coordinated mental health care across obstetric (OB) and neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) settings. Perinatal post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and related mental health conditions are common yet under-re...

This Is My Story (TIMS), a Five-Year Thematic Analysis of Patient Narratives from a Novel Intervention in an Academic Hospital

Background/Objective: This is My Story (TIMS) is a patient-centered, interview-based audio narrative program that provides a humanistic intervention to help the medical team understand more information about a patient’s story that is not routinely captured in their medical chart....

Clinical trial barriers in neurostimulation for pediatric drug‐resistant epilepsy

Abstract Objective The NeuroPace responsive neurostimulation (RNS) System effectively treats focal drug‐resistant epilepsy (DRE) in adults but lacks pediatric regulatory approval. Despite effective off‐label pediatric use, systemic device‐trial challenges have impeded label expan...

Wind energy in Australia: challenges and opportunities on the path to decarbonisation

Despite its status as an advanced economy, Australia grapples with a paradox: an economic reliance on fossil fuel and raw material exports that impedes its commitment to curtailing global climate change. This paper underscores the potential of Australia’s wind resources, comparab...

Longitudinal exploration of auditory sensory-perceptual processing in CLN3 disease (Juvenile Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis (Batten disease)): A high-density auditory evoked potential (AEP) study

Background: There is currently limited information about sensory and perceptual abilities across the progression of CLN3 disease (Juvenile Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis; Batten disease), a recessively inherited lysosomal storage disorder and a leading cause of childhood neurodeg...

Management Patterns and Outcomes of Vestibular Schwannoma in Older Adults: Assessment of the SEER Database

OBJECTIVE: Vestibular schwannoma (VS) is a benign intracranial tumor that is increasingly diagnosed in older adults. The relative contributions of tumor burden and surgical management to overall survival in elderly and very elderly patients remain incompletely characterized at a...