Ataxia is the defect in normal movements like walking, speaking, eating swallowing etc. It is caused most commonly by damage to the brain stem or cerebellum that regulates movements. There are over 50 ...

Ataxia is a form of movement disorder. There is loss of balance and physical co-ordination leading to difficulty in walking normally. The Cerebellum of the brain is normally responsible for ...

Cerebellar ataxias form a large group of movement and balance disorders that result from degeneration of Purkinje cells. Nearly two dozen individual genes have been identified to date that, if mutated ...

Spinocerebellar ataxia type 7 (SCA7) is an autosomal-dominant, late-onset, slowly progressive disorder, primarily characterized by gradual loss of motor coordination, resulting from dysfunction and ...

Autosomal dominant cerebellar ataxia (ADCA) is a genetically heterogeneous group of neurodegenerative disorders. To shed further light on the clinical and genetic spectrum of ADCA in Japan, we ...

Ataxia also known as a disorder wherein the patient suffers a lack of muscle control or coordination of voluntary movements, such as casual walking, picking up objects, etc. Experts say that this ...

The scientists report these findings in the current online edition of "The Lancet Neurology". This pan-European study could open up new possibilities of early diagnosis and smooth the way for ...

Loss of coordination (dysmetria): Difficulty with coordination of the amplitude and force of a movement, which causes overshooting or undershooting while attempting to grasp for something. Speech ...

Losing your voice for a day or so is annoying enough. Dawn Wooldridge once lost her voice for three months. “My husband loved it! I couldn’t say a word,” laughed Dawn “I had to write everything down ...

CHENNAI: Zoyeb Mohammed Zia was just 15 when the symptoms first began manifesting itself. The hitherto active boy couldn’t walk without holding onto walls for support, and couldn’t hold anything ...