SLC6A1 is a rare neurological condition in small children that causes seizures, severe movement and speech disorders and intellectual disability.
SLC6A1 Connect is a patient advocacy group dedicated to improving the lives of children and families affected by SLC6A1.
Our focus is to raise awareness and fundraising to advance scientific research that will ultimately result in a cure.
The 2023 SLC6A1 Connect Symposium was held on November 30th, 2023, the day before the annual American Epilepsy Society Conference. The events were held in Orlando, Florida. Both SLC6A1 researchers and several SLC6A1 families attended the symposium. Read more…
Author: Lindsay Randall of Arthur’s Quest, United Kingdom I was very excited to receive a link from our wonderful Portuguese mother Julia Ferrer, for an Orphan Drug Conference called REPO4EU. I had never heard of Read more…
Increasing diagnoses will help us cure SLC6A1 SLC6A1 and other genetic brain disorders are underdiagnosed due to barriers to genetic testing. Conditions that are considered ‘rare’ struggle to attract medical research. A great deal of Read more…
