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Fragile X Syndrome

Fragile X Syndrome

This genetic disorders:** known as Fragile X Syndrome, can be Discussed here.

Persons finding themselves or loved ones distressed in their lives because of fragile X syndrome may like to share how they cope in order to help others world-wide searching for experiences.

** A mutation / chromosome / missing or additional gene(s)

Syndrome Fragile

Fragile X research

Researchers have new findings on fragile X, an autism-linked genetic disorder. Fragile X Syndrome (FXS) is an inherited cause of intellectual disability, especially among boys. It results in a spectrum of intellectual disabilities ranging from mild to severe, as well as physical characteristics, such as an elongated face, large or protruding ears, and large testes. Accompanying behavioral characteristics include stereotypic movements, such as hand-flapping, and social anxiety. Ref. Source 7h.

Fragile X Syndrome Health & Special Psychology

Sertraline, brand named Zoloft, improves functioning in young children with fragile X

Treatment with sertraline may provide nominal but important improvements in cognition and social participation in very young children with fragile X syndrome, the most common genetic cause of intellectual disability and the leading single-gene cause of autism, a study has found. Ref. Source 5l.

Syndrome Fragile

Children with fragile X syndrome have a bias toward threatening emotion. Anxiety occurs at high rates in children with fragile X syndrome (FXS), the most common form of inherited intellectual disability. Children with co-occurring anxiety tend to fare worse, but it can be hard to identify in infants. A new study reports that infants and children with FXS show bias toward threatening emotion, rather than positive emotion, a pattern highly linked with anxiety. Source 6v.

Syndrome Fragile

Fragile X imaging study reveals differences in infant brains. For the first time, researchers have used MRIs to show that babies with the neurodevelopmental condition fragile X syndrome had less-developed white matter compared to infants that did not develop the condition. Imaging various sections of white matter from different angles can help researchers focus on the underlying brain circuitry important for proper neuron communication. Source 7j.

Fragile X Syndrome

Early exposure to sounds can address hypersensitivity to noise associated with Fragile X Syndrome. A research team has found exposure to sound -- not sound reduction -- during early development of mice engineered to have Fragile X Syndrome, or FXS, restores molecular, cellular, and functional properties in the auditory cortex, the area of the brain that processes sounds. The results suggest that facilitating exposure to sounds during early age can restore communication between brain cells altered by the gene mutation that leads to FXS. Source 5r.