Therapeutic Targets for Treating Memory Impairment in Down Syndrome

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A team of researchers led by Dr. Victoria Puig from the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM), which also involved the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), has studied the neural basis of intellectual disability in mice with Down syndrome and has discovered that the neural networks of brain […]

New therapeutic targets for treating memory impairment in Down syndrome

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Barcelona, 4th May, 2020. A team of researchers led by Dr. Victoria Puig from the Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM), which also involved the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), has studied the neural basis of intellectual disability in mice with Down syndrome and has discovered that the […]

Restoring protein imbalance improves memory deficits in Down syndrome

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Down syndrome is the most common genetic cause of intellectual disability. The disorder occurs when a person has three, instead of two, copies of chromosome 21. Currently, there is no effective treatment for this condition. Memory deficits are a hallmark of Down syndrome, but little is known about the […]