Cerebellar ataxias form a large group of movement and balance disorders that result from degeneration of Purkinje cells. Nearly two dozen individual genes have been identified to date that, if mutated ...

Question #1 Dr. John, My wife of 44 years recently has been diagnosed with cerebellar ataxia. This is a rare neurological disorder that effects the motor system. Have you ever heard of it? Most people ...

Spinocerebellar ataxias are a group of neurodegenerative diseases characterized by the degeneration of Purkinje cells, a major class of neurons in the cerebellum. The resulting cerebellar dysfunction ...

Limited treatment options and access to care often challenge patients with Friedreich’s ataxia. So, on Sept. 17, the ...

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A clinical trial conducted by Prof. Alexandra Durr's team (Sorbonne University.AP-HP) at the Paris Brain Institute and the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital AP-HP shows that despite the hopes raised in ...

A team led by Specially Appointed Associate Professor Tomohiko Ishihara and Professor Osamu Onodera at Niigata University, along with Professor Yoshitaka Nagai at Kindai University, conducted a ...

Researchers at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, identified a receptor that plays a crucial role in stress-induced motor ...

- National Ataxia Foundation (NAF) Drug Development Collaborative to cultivate resources that facilitate research and development of new potential treatments for Ataxia, a set of severe and ...

SINCE Friedreich's original description 1 of 6 cases of familial hereditary ataxia in 1863, numerous papers have been written on this subject. The vast majority of these elaborate on the neurologic ...