The new analysis will help determine the choice of the most effective drugs, as well as to correct behavioral therapy patients. "In the past, to determine the most effective psychological treatment of children with Down syndrome took several days - says Lynn Nadel and Jamie Edzhin of the research team for the study of Down syndrome at the University of Arizona. - Today, we have managed to significantly reduce the waiting period. "
Tests using a specially designed non-linguistic computer exercises that allow you to define the so-called "path of development" of children with Down's syndrome . In the future, doctors and psychologists can only follow this path. These studies are published in the journal Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders.
"The essence of our tests is that they have been selected because of their ability to activate a well-defined areas of the brain - says Lynn Nadel. - And they do not affect other regions, which makes them particularly effective."
Down Syndrome - A form of genomic pathology in which most often contains a karyotype 47 chromosomes instead of the normal 46 as the 21st chromosome pairs instead of the normal two, three copies are presented. This syndrome occurs in one out of every 700 children born, where boys and girls occurs with equal frequency.
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