Parkinson's disease is a degenerative central nervous system disorder that often impairs motor skills, speech and other functions. We discovered a large Chinese family showing primarily parkinsonism ...

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 ...

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact [email protected]. Back to Healio Riluzole did not improve clinical or ...

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 ...

SALT LAKE CITY - Scientists report a significant step toward combatting two degenerative brain diseases that chip away at an individual's ability to move, and think. A targeted therapy developed by ...

The patient was a 67-year-old Japanese woman, who was born to consanguineous parents and attained normal developmental milestones during infancy. At ∼17 years old, she began falling frequently while ...

A drug, engineered to combat the gene that causes spinocerebellar ataxia type 2 (SCA2), might also be used to treat amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), researchers have demonstrated in two studies of ...

Scientists have found strong evidence that abnormal calcium signaling in neurons may play an important role in the development of spinocerebellar ataxia type 2 (SCA2), a disorder causing progressive ...

An expanded repeat region in the ataxin-2 gene causes spinocerebellar ataxia or boosts risk for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, leading scientists to believe it was only a matter of time before they ...

A defective response to DNA damage is observed in several human autosomal recessive ataxias with oculomotor apraxia, including ataxiatelangiectasia. We report that senataxin, defective in ataxia ...

SALT LAKE CITY – University of Utah School of Medicine researchers and their colleagues at University of Texas (UT) Southwestern Medical Center have found strong evidence that abnormal calcium ...