People with Down syndrome, a genetic condition caused by additional copy chromosome 21, show physical signs of early aging, such as graying hair, wrinkles and menopause at an unusually young age. They are also much more likely to develop early onset Alzheimer’s disease. This has led scientists to suggest that Down syndrome leads to an […]
PhD retrospective with Sally Jennings
We would like to congratulate Dr. Sally Jennings who recently completed her PhD, which was supervised by Dr Howard Ring and Prof Tony Holland at the Cambridge Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Group (CIDDRG). We caught up with Sally to ask her about her research into neural predictors of cognitive decline in Down’s Syndrome. Can you give […]