Are we closer to reversing mental retardation?

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http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanId=sa003&articleId=6901F70B-E7F2-99DF-3648F0789D1EC063"

With these new findings should we be expecting new drugs out on the market in the near future to reverse mental retardation? Discuss.

 

[BoomBoom]

Probably not the "near" future. They still need to come up with a compound that would inhibit this PAK enzyme that has no serious side effects, then begin clinical trials which typically take many years.

 

[paralith]

This article isn't about mental retardation in general. It is about fragile X syndrome, a symptom of which is mental retardation. We don't know if all causes of mental retardation work in the same way or not. Thus we can't say one way or another.