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In a new clinical trial being led by The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, doctors are testing whether drug used to help adult Alzheimer’s patients can help improve some of the devastating features of Rett syndrome.

Deep Brain Stimulation is a cutting-edge neurosurgical treatment that may help improve disability and quality of life in selected children with cerebral palsy due to genetic conditions or birth injury. The Kids Neuroscience Centre research team examined the suitability for DBS to eligible children.

Recent studies by the Kids Neuroscience Centre have highlighted the clinical significance of the antibodies that cause spinal inflammation. These findings recently helped a three-year-old child, James, get back on his feet after losing his ability to walk.

Families and doctors looking after children with a rare form of cerebral palsy, associated with a gene called ADCY5, have chanced upon a precision therapy that is making lives easier for these children. The team at the Kids Neuroscience Centre are now guiding eligible patients to trial caffeine.