Patients with autoimmune cerebellar ataxia have better treatment responses and outcomes if they have the nonparaneoplastic form of the condition and are seropositive for neural plasma membrane protein ...

While autoimmune cerebellar ataxia (a loss of muscle coordination) can lead to severe disability with some patients becoming wheelchair-bound, there are factors that may help to predict better ...

MAYWOOD, Ill. - No cures are possible for most patients who suffer debilitating movement disorders called cerebellar ataxias. But in a few of these disorders, patients can be effectively treated with ...

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Given the limited availability of new therapies for neurological disease, repurposing of existing drugs is an approach that is being increasingly explored. To date, riluzole is the only drug that has ...

Spinocerebellar ataxia type 1 (SCA1) is an inherited neurodegenerative disease involving progressive loss of motor and cognitive function resulting from the death of cerebellar neurons. Watase et al.

(L-R): Pelham musician and family man John Parnell is an ataxia sufferer (Tamika Moore/[email protected]); Dr. Harrison Walker, a neurologist at The University of Alabama at Birmingham, diagnosed Parnell ...

Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology have succeeded in creating a new model system that can be used to develop drug therapies for genetic disorders like spinocerebellar ataxia ...

The cerebellum is incorporated into the distributed neural circuits subserving motor control, cognitive processing and the modulation of emotion. This lecture provides an overview of anatomical ...

Current treatments may be administered too late to target Friedreich's ataxia effectively. New research using a slow-onset frataxin knock-in/knockout mouse model showed significantly reduced levels of ...

New research from Baylor College of Medicine scientists shows that a combination of deep brain stimulation (DBS) and exercise has potential benefits for treating ataxia, a rare genetic ...