A new drug discovered through a research collaboration between the University at Buffalo and Tetra Therapeutics took a major step toward becoming a first-in-class treatment for Fragile X Syndrome, a leading genetic cause ...
Dec 12, 2020
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A population-based study revealed reasons behind elevated suicide risk, attempted suicides, and other selfharm, which require special health care, among a and young adults with autism spectrum disorders. Comorbid disorders, ...
Dec 10, 2020
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A new study by the UC Davis MIND Institute finds a connection between gestational age and attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms in children with Down syndrome. The research, published in Scientific Reports, ...
Dec 4, 2020
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Researchers from Trinity College have launched a special report on COVID-19 and older people with an intellectual disability (ID) which has found that COVID-19 was well managed in ID services but calls for decisions to impose ...
Dec 3, 2020
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The cause of fragile X syndrome (FXS), the most common inherited intellectual disability, is easy to see in the lab. Under electron microscopy, an affected X chromosome exhibits a deformed tip that gives the disorder its ...
Oct 23, 2020
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The challenges faced by informal carers—usually mothers—of children and adults with intellectual disability have been largely overlooked during the coronavirus crisis.
Sep 24, 2020
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Greenwood Genetic Center (GGC) researchers, in collaboration with scientists from Belgium, Spain, and Italy, have confirmed that variants in LMNB1 cause syndromic microcephaly with variable short stature, intellectual disability, ...
Sep 17, 2020
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The Institute for Research on Well-being Policies (Poliwelfare) of the University of Valencia, a partner of European project Mind Inclusion 2.0, has developed the app Mind Inclusion 2.0, to promote the inclusion of people ...
Sep 17, 2020
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The number of antipsychotic drugs prescribed to patients with intellectual disabilities has hardly changed in over a decade despite official recommendations for clinicians to stop using them due to side effects, finds research ...
Sep 10, 2020
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UNSW Sydney's Department of Developmental Disability Neuropsychiatry (3DN) has launched a tool to support the mental health assessment of people with intellectual disability and communication difficulties.
Aug 14, 2020
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