Eleven foals in the Pacific Northwest were diagnosed with a condition called Equine Juvenile Spinocerebellar Ataxia (EJSCA).

Despite their different causes, all forms of ataxia share a common set of motor impairments—specifically, a loss of motor rhythm and precision. More importantly, the severity of ataxia in ...

Mirian Andino, 11, of Barnegat uses a motorized wheelchair to get around. Her parents need to raise $15,000 for a ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Kyle Bryant was diagnosed with Friedreich's Ataxia, or FA, at 17 years old. Friedreich's Ataxia is a a rare neuromuscular disease that affects 1 in 50,000 people. Over the last ...

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 ...

Dunlavin was alive with the sounds of music and song when the community came together at St Nicholas Church of Ireland for a ...