Illness Severity, Social and Cognitive Ability, and EEG Analysis of Ten Patients with Rett Syndrome Treated with Mecasermin (Recombinant Human IGF-1)

Rett Syndrome (RTT) is a severe neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by an apparently normal development followed by an arrest and subsequent regression of cognitive and psychomotor abilities. At present, RTT has no definitive cure and the treatment of RTT represents a largely unmet clinical ne...

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Main Authors: Giorgio Pini, Laura Congiu, Alberto Benincasa, Pietro DiMarco, Stefania Bigoni, Adam H. Dyer, Niall Mortimer, Andrea Della-Chiesa, Sean O’Leary, Rachel McNamara, Kevin J. Mitchell, Michael Gill, Daniela Tropea
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2016-01-01
Series:Autism Research and Treatment
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/5073078