Qoute from the article:
“Individuals with Fragile X and other related brain development disorders need effective therapeutics directed towards the underlying disease pathophysiology, rather than just the associated symptomatic behaviors,” said Thomas R. Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health, in a statement. NIMH is a division within the National Institutes of Health.

It's about da*n time somebody "got it" that they need to look at the underlying causes, not just the behavior that comes from them. The stuff that I sometimes hear people say about autism being behavior blows my mind.

When you get a migraine, how do you act? Doesn't the pain make you act differently than you normally would? Yet migraines are not diagnosed as behavior - it is understood that there is something causing the person to feel and act that way, which needs to be alleviated in order to help the person who is experiencing it.

The same applies to pretty much any other debilitating condition - everything has a cause - but somehow, supposedly intelligent people will look at an autistic person and tell you that their obvious distress is a behavior problem. The rampant egocentric ignorance sometimes perpetrated in this world is truly appalling.

I'm really glad somebody is taking a real, helpful, common sense look at things and now addressing the source/problem, rather than the behavior/results. We need more studies done from this type of perspective - address the foundation of autism, rather than the aftereffects.