Medical research
Fragile X study offers hope of new autism treatment
People affected by a common inherited form of autism could be helped by a drug that is being tested as a treatment for cancer.
Nov 27, 2014
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Medical research
Molecule for Fragile X Syndrome treatment receives orphan designation
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has granted "orphan designation" to BMS 204352, a molecule developed by the CNRS to treat Fragile X Syndrome, a rare genetic disease for which there exists no treatment. Protocol assistance ...
Nov 17, 2014
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Pediatrics
What about the mental health of kids with intellectual disability?
High-quality epidemiological research shows children and adolescents with intellectual disability are four times more likely to have diagnosable mental health problems compared to others their age. This mental health inequality ...
Nov 13, 2014
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Health
Caring for ex–prisoners under the NDIS would save money and lives
The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) promises to deliver better support to the one in five Australians living with a disability. But what about those inside prison or who have just left prison? Will the NDIS look ...
Nov 3, 2014
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Genetics
Tests will track improved thinking in people with fragile X, down syndromes
Leading researchers, funded through a new, five-year, $3.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), are collaborating to develop and evaluate tests designed to measure and track changes in the cognitive ...
Oct 31, 2014
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Health
Mental illness linked to extreme risk of homelessness
University of Adelaide researchers say the greatest level of accommodation assistance should be directed to those most likely to need it, with Australians suffering from psychiatric and intellectual disabilities found to ...
Oct 8, 2014
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Genetics
Drug treats inherited form of intellectual disability in mice
Studying mice with a genetic change similar to what is found in Kabuki syndrome, a inherited disease of humans, Johns Hopkins researchers report they have used an anticancer drug to "open up" DNA and improve mental function.
Oct 1, 2014
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Health
Longitudinal report shows challenging reality of ageing with an intellectual disability
A new report launched today by the Intellectual Disability Supplement to TILDA (The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing) conducted by academics from the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, has ...
Sep 30, 2014
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Autism spectrum disorders
Overhaul of our understanding of why autism potentially occurs
An analysis of autism research covering genetics, brain imaging, and cognition led by Laurent Mottron of the University of Montreal has overhauled our understanding of why autism potentially occurs, develops and results in ...
Aug 12, 2014
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Genetics
Mutated gene linked to both autism and intellectual disability
Autism spectrum disorder and intellectual disability often occur together and may even share similar genetic causes. Researchers reporting in the Cell Press journal Cell Reports have now linked mutations in a particular gene ...
Jul 24, 2014
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