This valuable investigation provides new and solid evidence for a specific cognitive deficit in cerebellar degeneration patients. The authors use three tasks that modulate complexity and error ...

Patients experience debilitating symptoms, including severe orthostatic hypotension, urinary dysfunction, ataxic gait, dysmetria, scanning speech, and cognitive decline, significantly impacting their ...

Kinematic and EMG analysis of fast wrist movements showed normal movements before and marked hypermetria after alcohol intake. Dysmetria was due to abnormal programming of antagonist muscle activity.

There was no ptosis and the corneal reflex was present bilaterally. Sensation was intact to light touch and pin prick. There was no spontaneous or gaze nystagmus, saccadic pursuit, or ocular dysmetria ...

Future Neurology. 2012;7(6):679-700. Isolated CN palsies are rare signs of MS. [143] Lesions within the brainstem may cause injury to the CN III, CN IV or CN VI nuclei or fascicles resulting in ...

Paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration (PCD) is a heterogeneous group of neurologic syndromes associated with primary tumors. It is postulated that the immune system targets a tumor antigen that is ...

Abstract Polymorphic variants in the PTEN (rs2735343), PI3K (rs2699887), AKT1 (rs2494750), AR (rs17302090), and AMACR (rs3195676) genes were evaluated as possible molecular markers of susceptibility, ...