Selected Press Releases

• Super-social gene may hold clues to autism, other disorders. 2012
• Jumping Genes in the Brain Are Tied to Autism Video, 2012
• Elvis's Song Paves New Way in Research on Rate Neurological Disorder, June 18, 2012
• Elvis tune reveals clues to Williams syndrome and the genes ties to emotions, June 14, 2012
• People with Williams Syndrome have poor regulation of emotional hormones, June 15, 2012
• How Elvis Presley makes the heart grow fonder, June 14, 2012
• Elvis Presley song may reveal clues to genetic disorder, June 14, 2012
• Hormones, Music, and Human emotion. June 13, 2012
• "Trust" hormone oxytocin found at heart of rare genetic disorder, June, 2012
• Researchers use music to unlock the mystery of oxytocin, September 11, 2012
• Study explores multiple roles of oxytocin, 2012
• Williams syndrome shows gene-behavior links: Key to Autism, October 27, 2011

• Williams syndrome: One boy's inspiring story pictures, October, 2011
• Super-social gene may hold clues to autism, other disorders, October 25, 2011
• William Syndrome Web Watch, May 20, 2011
• NIH awards Salk Institute to study Williams syndrome, May 20, 2011
• Williams syndrome and social fearlessness, March 4, 2011
• A film about Williams syndrome featuring the interview with Professor Ursula Bellugi, Directed by Jon Kent, February, 2011
• Unlocking the Mystery of Autism , February, 2011
• Rett syndrome mobilizes jumping genes in the brain, November 17, 2010
• Modeling Autism in a Dish, November 11, 2010
• Brains of introverts reveal why they prefer to be alone, August 18, 2010
• The Brain's Language Processing in Williams syndrome and Autism, August 16, 2010
• Language as a window into sociability, August 13, 2010
• Stanford scientists learn how brain process images of faces, May 11, 2010
• U. scientist links one gene to intelligence: Rare disorder helps science illuminate how the brain works, April 22, 2010
• Study of Williams syndrome patients reveal specific gene roles in intellgience, April 20, 2010
• Brain Institute Researcher Julie R. Korenberg, M.D., Ph.D. Explores the genetic role in Williams syndrome, 2010
• Gene ties trust hormone to Williams syndrome and autism, August 3, 2009
• Beautiful Interplay: How genetic disruptions alters brain structures, which affects behavior, Summer 2009
• Narrowing search for behavior-related genes in people with Williams syndrome, February 13, 2009
• Two gene influence social behavior, visual-spatial performance in people with Williams syndrome, February 11, 2009
• The gregarious gene?, February 9, 2009
• Sociability traced to a particular region of brain, January 27, 2009
• Three Salk scientists named 2007 AAAS Fellows, November 5, 2007
• The gregarious brain, July 8, 2007
• Salk scientist Ursula Bellugi elected to National Academy of Sciences, May 2, 2007
• Genetic condition's interplay with culture, August 30, 2007
• Beyond nature vs. nurture: Williams syndrome across cultures, January 25, 2007
• Williams syndrome, the brain, and music, October 4, 2006
• Uncommon Genius, August, 2006
• Are There "Social Behavior" Genes?, August 20, 2003

 

Awards

IPSEN Prize in Neuronal Plasticity

 

 

American Psychological Association

Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award