It's been a while....
Hello! It's been so long since I sat down to write something to blog. Lucky for me, that there has been so much information out there on the research and clinical trial front, that I have been able to keep the Fragile X awareness spreading alive!But, it was time to write something. I have been feeling so blessed lately, yet my everyday life has been harder and busier than ever. My husband and I both have jobs, we have health insurance, our sons are happy and healthy. Really, what more matters?My Fragile X involvement is increasing at lightening speed...parent resource groups are partnering with local "FX clinics" to provide broader and better service

Clinical Tests Begin on Medication to Correct Fragile X Defect
NIH-supported scientists at Seaside Therapeutics in Cambridge, Mass., are beginning a clinical trial of a potential medication designed to correct a central neurochemical defect underlying Fragile X syndrome, the most common inherited cause of intellectual disability. There has to date been no medication that could alter the disorder’s neurologic abnormalities. The study will evaluate safety, tolerability, and optimal dosage in healthy volunteers.The work is the outcome of basic research that traced how an error in the fragile X mental retardation gene (FMR1) leads to changes in brain connections, called synapses. The changes in turn appear to be the mechanism for learning def