Booil Jo

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• Aberrant frontal lobe maturation in adolescents with fragile X syndrome is related to delayed cognitive maturation.

  Bray S, Hirt M, Jo B, Hall SS, Lightbody AA, Walter E, Chen K, Patnaik S, Reiss AL. Biol Psychiatry. 2011; 70 (9): 852-8

  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.

  PubMedID: 21802660