Still, Orr agrees with other experts that the recent convergence of fragile X research is a major step toward understanding what's behind the disorder.
Although she still worries that recent gains are fragile, her research is blossoming, she was recently named a member of the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicinee, and the change in attitude toward women at MIT has in turn transformed her own attitude.
"Placing fragile selected new research results on a pedestal invites later recrimination that undermines the credibility and usefulness of all bank research .In the main, the academics levelled this charge at the bank's big-think studies of globalisation.
Such policies include investments to improve the livelihoods of the rural poor in remote and fragile environments, appropriate research, extension and agricultural development for marginal land, and better market integration through extension service, roads, communication, protection of property, marketing services and other strategies to improve smallholder accessibility to larger markets.
"The grand old theories we inherited were fragile and poorly researched.
"I think the operative word is fragile," said Paul Saffo, a research fellow at the Institute for the Future in Menlo Park, Calif.
"It's kind of hard to make the argument that the company should keep providing it if it's not working," said Dr. Michael R. Tranfaglia, medical director of the Fraxa Research Foundation, of Newburyport, Mass., which provides money for research on fragile X syndrome.
The 13-page document, yellow and fragile, was filed among research notes and original newspaper clippings.
The challenges of undertaking research in fragile and conflict affected states means the there is a lacuna of knowledge of how health systems work in such environments.
This review will describe the process behind developing a behavioral endophenotyping battery as well as unpacking the resulting behavioral profiles from the experimental process and describe how they inform clinical research into Fragile X-Associated Disorders.
