Symptoms of prion disease can vary widely and often mimic other illnesses. Sporadic CJD presents itself in a variety of ways, though typically looks homogeneous towards the end of the disease duration ...

Patients with neurodegenerative ataxia that are treated with cerebello-spinal transcranial direct current simulation (tDCS) have significant improvements in gait, upper limb coordination, quality of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An 8-year-old boy presented to the pediatric ophthalmology clinic for evaluation of red eyes for the past year with progressive worsening in the past 6 months. The symptoms were not associated with ...