Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Drug reverses mental retardation caused by genetic disorder

I happened to be browsing about TSC and found this article...

There could be help on the horizon for my kids if they are in fact afflicted by TSC.

Drug reverses mental retardation caused by genetic disorder
Medicine & Health / Medications
UCLA mouse study offers hope for correcting how autism disrupts brain
UCLA researchers discovered that an FDA-approved drug reverses the brain dysfunction inflicted by a genetic disease called tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC). Because half of TSC patients also suffer from autism, the findings offer new hope for addressing learning disorders due to autism. Nature Medicine publishes the findings in its online June 22 edition. more...

2 comments:

JSmith5780 said...

I had heard about the Rapamycin on the TSC support group.

Hopefully it will be as good as they say it is!

Shanna Grimes said...

Well, this would be the only reason that I would hope that it does turn out to be TSC.