{
  "id": 5115720,
  "title": "Breathing without brakes: An unexpected cause of Rett syndrome symptoms",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/02/breathing-without-brakes-an-unexpected-cause-of-rett-syndrome-symptoms",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-09-02T15:20:07.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Medical Xpress",
    "slug": "medical-xpress",
    "url": "https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-unexpected-rett-syndrome-symptoms.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "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.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}