In mice, a normal sleep cycle contains three stages the animal alternates through: wakefulness, rapid eye movement (REM), and non-REM (NREM). 6 Ataxic mice experienced longer periods of each stage, ...

Bill Nye, one of the nation's most popular scientists is headed to Capitol Hill to bring awareness to the rare neurological ...

A neurologist orders the wrong genetic test for a patient experiencing peripheral neuropathy and doesn't realize it even upon ...

Poor balance and coordination are prominent features of Friedreich’s ataxia (FRDA). Czech researchers found that neuropsychiatric symptoms are also common among patients with FRDA.

In addition to exposure to general movement disorders clinics, fellows will also gain experience in subspecialty clinics (Huntington’s disease, botulinum toxin injections, ataxia, DBS programming, ...

Cerebellar ataxia can occur as a result of many diseases and may present with symptoms of an inability to coordinate balance, gait, extremity and eye movements. Lesions to the cerebellum can cause ...

a broad spectrum of hyperkinetic and other movement disorders, including tremors, dystonia, tics, Tourette syndrome, Huntington disease and other choreas, myoclonus, restless legs syndrome, tardive ...