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Promise Seen in Drug for Retardation Syndrome

20100430 New York Times - Gardiner Harris reports - An experimental drug succeeded in a small clinical trial in bringing about what the researchers called substantial improvements in behaviors associated with retardation and autism in people with fragile X syndrome, the most common inherited cause of these mental disabilities ... The trial involved only a few dozen patients, only some of whom benefitted from the treatment ...


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