I'm very excited to share this short video I recorded recently thanks to the generosity of our friends at the Giving Library. In it, I talk about how Fragile X affects our lives and the ways the National Fragile X Foundation has helped make a world of difference to many families, including mine. I hope you'll take the time to watch it and share it with your family and friends.
Photo courtesy of Autism Speaks The National Institutes of Health has awarded a major grant to conduct a clinical trial on iPad Assisted Language Development. An Autism Speaks funded study reported encouraging findings on [...]
My whole marriage to my husband Vince can be described by one acronym: FXTAS. Our wedding was in April 1999. It was a second marriage for us both, and we weren’t youngsters (I was 48 and Vince was 64), but I thought we were both healthy. We had no inkling that Vince’s mind was already deteriorating from FXTAS.
Roche We are studying an experimental medication for Fragile X syndrome in children and adolescents. We hope to learn if this experimental medication is safe, how well your body manages the medication (tolerability), how [...]
Blueprint for Success sets the new mission statement for Massachusetts' Employment for Individuals with Disabilities As part of the Collaboration to Promote Self-Determination, one of the issues that we at the NFXF have [...]
Contact: Mark Derewicz mark.derewicz@unch.unc.edu (919) 923-0959 University of North Carolina Health Care CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – When you experience something, neurons in the brain send chemical signals called neurotransmitters across synapses to receptors on other [...]
