Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome related to severe hypomagnesaemia by Martín Naya Rosato, María Luisa Núñez Calvo, Lucía Barrera López

“…Case description: A 65-year-old female with a medical history of smoking, arterial hypertension and dyslipidaemia, was admitted due to dysarthria associated with ataxia, visual disturbances and diarrhoea. The neurological physical examination revealed a mild decreased strength in both legs (4/5), mild dysdiadochokinaesia and mild heel-knee dysmetria. …”
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Modeling sacsin depletion in Danio Rerio offers new insight on retinal defects in ARSACS by Valentina Naef, Devid Damiani, Rosario Licitra, Maria Marchese, Stefania Della Vecchia, Matteo Baggiani, Letizia Brogi, Daniele Galatolo, Silvia Landi, Filippo Maria Santorelli

“…Biallelic mutations in the SACS gene, encoding sacsin, cause early-onset autosomal recessive spastic ataxia of Charlevoix-Saguenay (ARSACS), a neurodegenerative disease also characterized by unique and poorly understood retinal abnormalities. …”
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MOG associated autoimmune encephalomyelitis with active disease dynamic in imaging examinations and minimal clinical manifestation by E. Tilindytė, I. Muliuolis, R. Samaitienė

“…Progressive encephalopathy and multiple focal neurological symptoms are characteristic to this disease: irritability, disturbed consciousness, weakness, sensory disorders, bowel, bladder dysfunction, spasticity, hyperreflexia, positive Babinsky reflex, paresis, cerebral ataxia, cerebral neuropathy, and spinal cord dysfunction (transverse myelitis). …”
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Biomarkers of Oxidative Stress in Huntington's Disease and Other Neurological Disorders: a Comparative Study by Marisol Peña Sánchez, Gabriel Andrés Peña de los Santos, Gretel Riverón Forment, Gloria Lara Fernández, Tatiana Acosta Sánchez, Alina González-Quevedo Monteagudo

“…<br /><strong>Methods:</strong> an analytical, retrospective and case-control study was carried out (Huntington's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, spinocerebellar ataxia type 2 and ischemic stroke: acute and chronic stage). …”
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Extensive Growth of an Anaplastic Meningioma by Hajrullah Ahmeti, Homajoun Maslehaty, Athanasios K. Petridis, Alexandros Doukas, Mehran Mahvash, Harald Barth, H. M. Mehdorn

“…Neuroimaging revealed an extensive growing, contrast enhancing lesion expanding at the supra- and infratentorial convexity, infiltrating and destroying large parts of the skull, and infiltrating the skin. Due to progressive ataxia and dysarthria with proven tumor growth in the posterior fossa in the continuing course, parts of the tumor were resected. …”
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CLINICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF DEBUT AND RISK FACTORS OF PEDIATRIC MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS by Валерий Иванович Ларькин, Игорь Иванович Ларькин, Татьяна Аркадьевна Морозова, Степан Евгеньевич Аполлонов

“…The most common reasons for referral: optic neuritis (50 %), sensory disorders (45 %) and decreased muscle strength in the extremities (45 %). Ataxia was detected during examination in 45 %. Before the initial treatment, 30 % of patients noted similar complaints for 1-3 years. …”
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Pretreatment of Small-for-Size Grafts In Vivo by γ-Aminobutyric Acid Receptor Regulation against Oxidative Stress-Induced Injury in Rat Split Orthotopic Liver Transplantation by Tomohide Hori, Shinji Uemoto, Lindsay B. Walden, Feng Chen, Ann-Marie T. Baine, Toshiyuki Hata, Justin H. Nguyen

“…Immunohistological assessment for apoptotic induction and western blotting for 4-hydroxynonenal, ataxia-telangiectasia mutated kinase (ATM), histone H2AX, phosphatidylinositol-3 kinase (PI3K), Akt, and free radical scavenging enzymes were performed. …”
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Superficial Siderosis and Anticoagulation Therapy: Different Presentations, Different Outcomes by Rui Duarte Barreto, Luís Ruano, Vítor Tedim Cruz, Carlos Veira, Paula Coutinho

“…Two Caucasian women, both under long-term oral anticoagulation: a 74 year old woman with slowly progressive hearing loss and mild cerebellar ataxia; a 72 year old woman suffering from behavioural changes, rapidly progressive cognitive decline and latter developing paraparesis. …”
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Effects of Intravenous Administration of Human Umbilical Cord Blood Stem Cells in 3-Acetylpyridine-Lesioned Rats by Lucía Calatrava-Ferreras, Rafael Gonzalo-Gobernado, Antonio S. Herranz, Diana Reimers, Teresa Montero Vega, Adriano Jiménez-Escrig, Luis Alberto Richart López, Eulalia Bazán

“…Cerebellar ataxias include a heterogeneous group of infrequent diseases characterized by lack of motor coordination caused by disturbances in the cerebellum and its associated circuits. …”
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A Case of Diffuse Leptomeningeal Glioneuronal Tumor Misdiagnosed as Chronic Tuberculous Meningitis without Brain Biopsy by Jung-goo Lee, Hak-cheol Ko, Jin-gyu Choi, Youn Soo Lee, Byung-chul Son

“…After four months of improvement, his mental confusion, memory impairment, dysphasia, and ataxia gradually worsened. A repeated MRI of the brain showed further aggravation of leptomeningeal enhancement in the basal cisterns. …”
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Autoimmune Polyglandular Syndrome Type 3 with Anorexia by Toshio Kahara, Hitomi Wakakuri, Juri Takatsuji, Iori Motoo, Kosuke R. Shima, Kazuhide Ishikura, Rika Usuda, Yatsugi Noda

“…Extended periods of cobalamin deficiency can cause serious complications such as ataxia and dementia, and these complications may not be reversible if replacement therapy with cobalamin is delayed. …”
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Case report: Successful treatment of a thallium sulfate intoxication in a dog with use of Prussian blue by Fergal M. McDermott, Anne A. Kan, Claudine C. Hunault, Joris H. Robben, Dylan W. de Lange, Marieke A. Dijkman

“…A 5-year-old miniature Schnauzer, ingested a thallium sulfate based rodenticide leading to lethargy, anorexia, regurgitation, abdominal pain, borborygmi, constipation, ataxia, dermatitis and progressive alopecia. Intervention involved supportive care with subcutaneous fluids, carprofen, butylscopolamine and dexamethasone in combination with targeted treatment using the chelating agent Prussian blue (15 days) followed by activated charcoal (4 days). …”
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Movement Disorders and Smart Wrist Devices: A Comprehensive Study by Andrea Caroppo, Andrea Manni, Gabriele Rescio, Anna Maria Carluccio, Pietro Aleardo Siciliano, Alessandro Leone

“…Epilepsy and seizure detection are also research topics of interest, while there are few papers analyzing gait disorders, Huntington’s Disease, ataxia, or Tourette Syndrome. However, the results of this review highlight the difficulties still present in the use of the smartwatch/wristband/bracelet for the identified categories of movement disorders, despite the advantages these technologies could bring in the dissemination of low-cost solutions usable directly within living environments and without the need for caregivers or medical personnel.…”
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Parkinson’s disease and other movement disorders in the context of the SARS-COV-2 pandemic by R. Kaladytė Lokominienė

“… Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) is able to invade the human nervous system and can cause headache, nausea, vomiting, febrile seizures, encephalopathy, encephalitis, ataxia or psychiatric disorders, as well as quantitative disturbances of smell and taste which are observed both during the course of Parkinson’s disease and other alpha-synucleinopathies, only in slowly progressive and irreversible manner. …”
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PARP inhibition-associated heterochromatin confers increased DNA replication stress and vulnerability to ATR inhibition in SMARCA4-deficient cells by Kimiyoshi Yano, Megumi Kato, Syoju Endo, Taichi Igarashi, Ryoga Wada, Takashi Kohno, Astrid Zimmermann, Heike Dahmen, Frank T. Zenke, Bunsyo Shiotani

“…Elevated RS levels increase the vulnerability of cancer cells to ataxia telangiectasia and Rad3-related kinase inhibitors (ATRis). …”
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Micronutrient Deficiency and Wernicke’s Encephalopathy in the Setting of Over the Counter Transcutaneous Multivitamin Patch Use Following Bariatric Surgery by Hisham Mohammed Babu, MBBS, Andrew J. Spiro, MD, Thanh D. Hoang, DO, Mohamed K.M. Shakir, MD

“…Eight months later, she presented to the emergency room with confusion, bilateral lower extremity weakness, paresthesia, and ataxia. Neurological examination revealed disorientation, nystagmus, and bilateral lateral rectus palsies. …”
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Early Infantile Epileptic Encephalopathy in an STXBP1 Patient with Lactic Acidemia and Normal Mitochondrial Respiratory Chain Function by Dong Li, Elizabeth Bhoj, Elizabeth McCormick, Fengxiang Wang, James Snyder, Tiancheng Wang, Yan Zhao, Cecilia Kim, Rosetta Chiavacci, Lifeng Tian, Marni J. Falk, Hakon Hakonarson

“…We report a 7-year-old boy who presented for diagnostic evaluation of intractable epilepsy, episodic ataxia, resting tremor, and speech regression following a period of apparently normal early development. …”
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Encefalopatía de Wernicke como complicación de la hiperemesis gravídica by Yusdelis Ortiz Licea, Mabel Rosa Odoardo Aguilar, Dunia Hernández Carulla, Diana Rosa Rivero Odoardo

“…Al examen físico presentó somnolencia, bradipsiquia, desorientación en tiempo y espacio, nistagmo horizontal y rotatorio bilateral, y ataxia del tronco. La resonancia magnética mostró hiperintensidad de señales en el tálamo, alrededor del III ventrículo, en el fórnix, corteza y subcorteza cerebral. …”
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Risk stratification for acute stroke development after a transient ischemic attack and the use of scoring systems in pre-hospital scenarios by Janković Tamara, Đorđević Stefan

“…Upon examination, the patient was found to be disoriented and dysphasic, with left hemiparesis and ataxia. This time, the patient was taken to an appropriate hospital, where cerebrovascular insult was confirmed, and she was hospitalised. …”
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The potential of stem cell therapy in Multiple Sclerosis treatment: a review by Sorina Amarculesei, Ava O'Meara Cushen, Cathy Brougham

“…Symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis include sensory loss, fatigue, cognitive dysfunction, spasticity, depression, optic neuritis, gait ataxia, diplopia, and loss of bladder control. Currently, there is no standardised treatment or cure for Multiple Sclerosis with many strategies focusing on symptoms. …”
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