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This article is not intended to give medical advice for individual cases.  Any change in medical treatment should be done in consultation with appropriate medical personnel. This article is written for medical professionals.  Some of the terms will be unfamiliar to those who are not trained in medical fields.

*This article is from the chapter on treatment in the 3rd edition of Fragile X Syndrome: Diagnosis, Treatment, and Research edited by Randi Jenssen Hagerman, M.D. and Paul Hagerman, M.D., Ph.D., to be published May 2002.  It is included with permission from The Johns Hopkins University Press. References to other chapters refer to chapters in the book which are not included as part of this website.

The complete 3rd edition of Fragile X Syndrome: Diagnosis, Treatment, and Research can be ordered from the National Fragile X Foundation by calling 1-800-688-8765 or from The Johns Hopkins University Press at 1-800-537-5487.

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