...trial exploring how electroencephalography (EEG) signatures shift when people with fragile X take a single dose of either acamprosate, lovastatin or minocycline. EEG recordings from people with fragile X syndrome...
...those with autism, people with the syndrome often have trouble interacting with others, maintaining eye contact, or acquiring language. Fragile X syndrome affects 1 in 4,000 males and half as...
...the sex bias in fragile X syndrome, a rare, autism-linked condition that is both more common and more severe in men and is caused by mutations in the FMR1 gene,...
...males with fragile X syndrome have much more severe deficits than do females, but this study used animals of both sexes. The researchers may have seen more significant abnormalities in...
...the University of Iowa. “Because none of these genes that we study are on a sex chromosome, it really is a broader effect of sex on the brain that we...
Week of NovemberNov
13th
2017
An interview for diagnosing adults on the spectrum clears its first hurdle, a fragile X drug eases multiple features of the syndrome in a mouse model, and a brain bank...
...cells missing the gene MECP2, which causes Rett syndrome. In new work presented at SfN this week, the same researchers improved mitochondrial function in mice that model Rett syndrome by...