Drug to Cure Learning Disabilities on the Horizon?

A Canadian research team discovered a link to a missing protein in the brain and the development of learning disabilities. The brain cell protein is known as Neto1 and it's job is to help the brain cells communicate with each other. Toronto researchers have also been testing drugs known as ampakines on Alzheimer's patients and witnessed promising results. The patients show improvement in the same area of the brain called the hippocampus which deals with learning and memory. It is undetermined which learning disabilites could also benefit from the drug but the researchers have expressed their guarded optimism.


For more information about the research see the CTV news health article at the link below.
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20090224/learning_disabilities_090224/20090224?hub=Health