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Scientists receive $7.7 million grant to develop treatment for scarce brain disease

Babies born with a defective gene vital for well brain development, SYNGAP1, experience seizures, sensory processing disorders, speech difficulties, intellectual disabilities and autism-like behaviors. It’s a condition for which there is no cure that is challenging for both parents and children, said Gavin Rumbaugh, Ph.D., a neurobiologist at the Herbert Wertheim UF Scripps Institute for […]