Difficulty balancing or an inability to do so can be caused by any number of factors. Head injuries, migraines, alcohol use, ear infections and medications can all affect your musculoskeletal system ...

Noninvasive neurostimulation delivered to the brain and spinal cord significantly reduces symptoms of rare, neurodegenerative ataxias, a new first-in-humans trial shows. Cerebellar anodal and spinal ...

The FDA has granted orphan drug designation to Cure Rare Disease’s CRD-002, an antisense oligonucleotide therapeutic for the treatment of spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA), including spinocerebellar ataxia ...

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact [email protected]. The trial will evaluate VO659, an antisense ...

Worldwide, only a handful of patients are known to suffer from episodic ataxia type 6, a neurological disease that causes transient loss of muscle control. The cause lies in a mutation that changes a ...

Some families call it a trial of faith. Others just call it a curse. The progressive neurological disease known as spinocerebellar ataxia 4 (SCA4) is a rare condition, but its effects on patients and ...

Niigata, Japan - A team led by Specially Appointed Associate Professor Tomohiko Ishihara and Professor Osamu Onodera at Niigata University, along with Professor Yoshitaka Nagai at Kindai University, ...

The cerebellum plays a role in prefrontal cortex (PFC) function and cognition. How chronic and progressive cerebellar dysfunction impacts PFC function and cognition remains less understood.

Stefan Pulst, a neurologist at the University of Utah, sees hundreds of patients each year with puzzling brain diseases. But 15 years ago, he met a patient whom he thought could be the key to solving ...