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Doctors Reverse With Drugs Autism-Linked Fragile X Syndrome In Mice
An anonymous reader writes "New research by a team of Bangalore-based scientists has given hope to those with emotional problems caused by the inheritance of a fragile X chromosome. The researchers, for the first time in the world, mapped defective connections between nerve cells in the emotional hub of the brain of mice who had Fragile X Syndrome. The research has just been published in the online edition of the US-based Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences." Besides the mapping of these nerves, though, "The NCBS team has shown that even the long-term ravages of the condition could be reversed with medication in mice." Fragile X syndrome is associated with autism, though the conditions do not map directly to each other.
Doctors Reverse With Drugs Autism-Linked Fragile X Syndrome
What?
I put the 't' in electrical engineering.
In other words, at least 80% of individuals with autism need to find hope for a cure somewhere else.
20% is an insignificant number? Not if your child has Autism. And suppose you had Cancer, would you pass on looking into a treatment because it "ONLY" had a 20% rate of potential improvement?
Hoestly, what is your point?
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