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Down Syndrome Treatment

Can Down Syndrome Be Treated? Did you ever want to know if Down Syndrome can be treated? Well let’s see! The cognitive impairments in Down Syndrome have been considered untreatable for a long time now.  In recent advances in science and genetics are raising the need for pharmaceutical interventions for this syndrome. If the trials […]

Down Syndrome Treatment

Can it be treated? People born with Down syndrome have always been considered to be incurably developmentally delayed—until now. In the past few years a number of laboratories have uncovered critical drug targets within disabled chemical pathways in the brain that might be restored with medication. At least two clinical trials are currently studying the […]

Possible Epilepsy Treatment?

Lets Find Out! Researchers from North Carolina State University have mapped the areas of the cerebral cortex implicated in absence epilepsy in mice. What is more, the researchers have shown how transplanting embryonic neural cells into these affected areas can reduce seizure activity, leading to hope of new treatments for humans with absence epilepsy. Read […]