Breathing without brakes: An unexpected cause of Rett syndrome symptoms
Hyperventilating. Breath-holding until they turn blue. This abnormal breathing is frequent and disturbing in people with Rett syndrome, a rare genetic disease. Now University of Connecticut researchers report in Current Biology why those episodes happen and show how medications for an entirely different disease might help.
We haven't written up this one. Medical Xpress has the full story — the link below goes straight to it.