Patients with spastic paraplegia type 15 develop movement disorders during adolescence that may ultimately require the use of a wheelchair. In the early stages of this rare hereditary disease the ...

Hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP) comprises a heterogeneous group of neurodegenerative disorders that are mainly characterised by progressive spasticity and weakness of the lower limbs. Recent ...

Since she was born 20 years ago, Sylva Eugenie Davis of Kansas City has not been able to use her arms or legs. The nerve tracts in the neck region of her spinal cord were injured at birth, causing ...

Researchers from the University of Seville and the Seville Institute of Biomedicine (IBiS), in collaboration with the University of Cambridge, have identified a new role for one of the genes related ...

Patients with spastic paraplegia type 15 develop movement disorders during adolescence that may ultimately require the use of a wheelchair. In the early stages of this rare hereditary disease the ...

A joint study conducted by the University of Bonn and the DZNE has confirmed early-stage brain inflammation in mice. Patients with spastic paraplegia type 15 develop movement disorders during ...

There is no cure for the rare disease Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia (HSP), but researchers from Drexel University's College of Medicine and the UMass Chan Medical School have achieved ...

MATTOON (JG-TC) -- The Spastic Paralysis Research Foundation board chairman is scheduled to give a presentation during the Mattoon Kiwanis Club meeting on Wednesday. The Mattoon club reported that ...