William Alden Lee speaks slowly and deliberately, using the one thing over which he still has some control: his speech. His legs and his hands are disobedient these days. “I know there are people ...

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

What is causing this 55-year-old woman to have distorted speech and balance problems when walking, and why have her symptoms worsened progressively since they came on 14 years ago? Those are the ...

Background An 83-year-old man presented with hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and a previous basal cell carcinoma, having developed progressive worsening of his balance and difficulty walking at the age ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new study of patients with autoimmune cerebellar ataxia has found that the condition is not always untreatable and that many patents respond well to immunotherapy, particularly if started early. The ...

In order to clarify the clinical and genetic features of SCA6, we retrospectively analyzed 140 patients. We observed an inverse correlation between the age of onset and the length of the expanded ...

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 ...

A normal leaf-shaped cerebellum versus cerebella that are reduced in size. © Mahmoud Elsaid / Tawfeq Ben Omran A mutation that interferes with a ribonucleic acid’s ...

Neurological deficits associated with liver disease may affect the peripheral nervous system and other systems in the body. This may increase a person’s risk of cancer, experience recurring infections ...

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 regimens such as ...