Friedreich ataxia is an autosomal-recessive, neurodegenerative disease that primarily affects the nervous system and heart. It was named after Nicolaus Friedreich, a Professor of Medicine in ...

Ataxia is caused by damage in cerebellum, leading to poor muscle control. Know the causes and types of ataxia that can lead ...

Cerebellar rhythm loss due to climbing fiber regression is a shared pathophysiology of motor deficits across cerebellar ...

The resulting products were purified and sequenced as above. Bouchard, J.-P. Recessive spastic ataxia of Charlevoix-Saguenay. in Handbook of Clinical Neurology 16: Hereditary Neuropathies and ...

Health Canada has granted approval for Biogen’s Skyclarys (omaveloxolone) to treat Friedreich’s ataxia (FA), a rare, ...

In addition, I think the recognition across all diseases where not everyone is going to be an expert in FA, and people can refer readily to tertiary care centers and even ordinary care centers that ...

In this video David Lynch, MD, PhD, discusses the effect Friedreich's ataxia can have on patients' quality of life.

“And also trying to unravel a little bit of the cellular mechanisms that were at play here.” To model ataxia, the team selectively silenced Purkinje cells in mice, which caused ataxia-like motor ...