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FPWR Awards More Than $900,000 to Nine Grants in PWS

The Foundation for Prader-Willi Research (FPWR) is funding nine projects that intend to improve understanding and help find treatments, including gene therapies, for Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS). In total, FPWR awarded a total of $912,251 in the first round of this year’s research awards, according to a press release.

PWS Children Struggle to Show Emotions, Study Suggests

Children with Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) struggle to express adequate facial and bodily emotions, which is linked to difficulties adapting socially, a study suggests. The study, “Equivocal expression of emotions in children with Prader-Willi syndrome: what are the consequences for emotional abilities and social adjustment?,” was published in the…