Rett syndrome is a rare neurodevelopmental disorder for which there is currently no cure or good therapy. It causes severe physical and cognitive symptoms, including many that overlap with autism ...

The laboratory of Huda Zoghbi, where the discovery that mutations in the gene MECP2 cause the severe childhood neurological disorder Rett Syndrome was made, has taken yet another step toward ...

Rett syndrome is a rare disorder linked to autism that affects brain development. Microglia, the resident immune cells of the central nervous system, have been implicated in the development of Rett ...

On an unseasonably warm day in late February, scientists at Kunming Medical University’s Experimental Animal Center in the far southwestern province of Yunnan injected a female crab-eating macaque ...

An expert explains how Rett syndrome is diagnosed, how commonly it is misdiagnosed, disease progression, and which providers are best positioned to manage a Rett Syndrome patient. David Lieberman, MD, ...