Doctors said boy was suffering from teenage psychosis, but it was a rare genetic condition
Jamie Talan11:08, May 02 2021 In 1974, when Robert Shprintzen was a young speech pathologist at Montefiore Medical Centre in New York, he was introduced to a dozen children with similar presentations: cleft palates, heart problems, immune disorders and developmental delays that would ultimately lead to learning disabilities. He published a paper describing this new syndrome. Other scientists had chronicled children with identical features - DiGeorge syndrome, for instance - but ultimately it was agreed that they were talking about the same syndrome and kids. They called it velocardiofacial s...
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