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Screening Angelman Patients for Sleep Disorders Can Help Manage Problems

Screening patients with Angelman syndrome and other neurodevelopemental disorders for sleep disturbances can enable multidisciplinary management, and diagnosing and treating these problems may improve patient quality of life, a review that looked at eight neurogenetic diseases reported. The study, “Sleep Disorders in Childhood Neurogenetic Disorders,” was recently published…

New Method Can Help Assess Communication in Angelman Children, Study Finds

A new technique based on video-recorded behavior analysis can help assess communication ability in children with Angelman syndrome and may be used in future clinical studies of experimental therapies, according to researchers. Their study, “Quantitative Measurement of Communication Ability in Children with Angelman Syndrome,” was published in…