Cerebellar degeneration occurs when the neurons in the cerebellum deteriorate. The cerebellum is the portion of the brain that controls balance and muscle coordination. A number of conditions can ...

Neurological manifestations of cancer are common, disabling, and often multifactorial (table 1). The concept that malignant disease can cause damage to the nervous system above and beyond that caused ...

Newsweek spoke to mother Allyson Moulton, 37, who described her teenage daughter's medical condition as a "ticking bomb." ...

Corticobasal degeneration (CBD ... dilation of the third ventricle and reduced volume of the superior cerebellar peduncles. PET with fluorodeoxyglucose demonstrates frontal hypometabolism.

First, the three disorders have distinct anatomical patterns of degeneration: PSP is associated with extensive pathological changes in the cerebellum and pons, whereas CBD, PNFA and FTD generally ...

Neuromelanin signal also correlates with the reduction of dopaminergic neurons in the SN and may be a surrogate marker of dopaminergic neuron degeneration (level 4 ... Atrophy rates in the cerebellum ...

Progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) and corticobasal degeneration (CBD) are categorized as tauopathies ... w = posterior horn of lateral ventricle, x = cerebellum, y = superior cerebellar peduncle, z ...

Cerebellar patients exhibit various motor impairments, but the sequence of primary and compensatory processes leading to these deficits remains unclear. To investigate this, we reversibly blocked ...

A clever new set of glasses may offer new hope to people with macular degeneration. By copying the structure of a fly's eyes, the specs are claimed to "fill in" the missing section of the wearer's ...