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 ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio. Julie Clarich is one of few people born with a condition called ataxia. The progressive movement disorder normally emerges anywhere from early childhood to adulthood. And, even though ...

Clinical exome sequencing (CES) in patients with adult and sporadic-onset presentations of chronic progressive cerebellar ataxia is a high-yield test and should be considered in the routine genetic ...

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

The autosomal recessive cerebellar ataxias are a group of little known and often neglected diseases that are best understood by following a practical, multidisciplinary approach that focuses on ...

Dr. Linda Snider, a diagnostic radiologist with Methodist Hospital, is a planner. Because her father had ataxia, which can be inherited, she got tested. Now she’s reaching out to others with the ...

At least one in 100 horses at some point in its life will lose the ability to control its gait as a result of developing the neurological disorder ataxia. Once found to be ataxic, the horse is often ...

Ataxia-telangiectasia is an autosomal recessive disorder caused by a defect in the ATM gene mapped to chromosome 11q22.3. The ATM gene product is involved in the detection of damaged DNA and plays a ...

Cancer is a multifactorial disease that manifests in several different ways depending on its point of origin. Often, the symptoms offer strong clues as to which organ is diseased. In some cases, ...