Victoria Stern | Nov 17, 2009 | 3 min read
Boosting levels of a neurotransmitter in the brain may reverse some of the cognitive abnormalities that characterize Down syndrome, according to a study, published online today (November 18) in Science Translational Medicine, conducted in a mouse model of the disease. Child with Down syndrome Image: Wikipedia"The work is really fascinating," said linkurl:Roger Reeves,;http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/geneticmedicine/People/Faculty/reeves.html a physiologist at Johns Hopkins Medical Institute who