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SUBMITTER: Bray S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3191299 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bray Signe S Hirt Melissa M Jo Booil B Hall Scott S SS Lightbody Amy A AA Walter Elizabeth E Chen Kelly K Patnaik Swetapadma S Reiss Allan L AL
Biological psychiatry 20110729 9
<h4>Background</h4>Fragile X syndrome (FXS) is the most common known heritable cause of intellectual disability. Prior studies in FXS have observed a plateau in cognitive and adaptive behavioral development in early adolescence, suggesting that brain development in FXS may diverge from typical development during this period.<h4>Methods</h4>In this study, we examined adolescent brain development using structural magnetic resonance imaging data acquired from 59 individuals with FXS and 83 typicall ...[more]