This disorder can be dated back to 1937, when a group of Australian veterinary scientists came across a discovery. They identified that copper played a significant responsibility in neurodevelopment in lambs. About ten years later in 1948, a neurologist preformed an experiment involving patients with multiple sclerosis and their copper metabolism. These studies showed that the patients with MS was not due to Menkes. In 1962 John Menkes, a medical doctor at Columbia University in New York, came across this syndrome and studied it. Case studies were preformed and Menkes "kinky hair" disease was named after him. He discovered that this was a recessive X-linked disorder. Later on in the years, Professor David Danks recognized that it is a disease caused by a lack of copper in the body.

Menkes Syndrome is an inherited disorder caused by cells not having a sufficient amount of copper. Some symptoms of this disease include...