Neurology Updates

Neurology Updates

Here you will find regular scientific news from our Scientific Panels. We cover all areas of neurology, including rare diseases. The most recent news are displayed below. You will find all news of different areas sorted into the subsections of the respective scientific panel. Enjoy reading!

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| Neurogenetics | Rare Neurological Diseases  

Friedreich´s Ataxia (FA) is the most common hereditary ataxia in Europe and is a progressive, highly disabling disease. Recently, the European…

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| Neurogenetics | Rare Neurological Diseases  

Deep intronic GAA-expansions in the FGF14 gene have been recently identified as a common cause of late onset cerebellar ataxia, a disease entity that…

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| COVID-19 | Neurogenetics  

To our knowledge, there is currently no evidence on how and if Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) affects people with rare neurological diseases,…

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| Neurogenetics  

A recent paper from Cortese et al (2019) reported that a new intronic expansion may be a relevant cause of late-onset ataxia.

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| Neurogenetics  

DNA methylation editing of the FMR1 gene rescue Fragile X syndrome neurons.

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| Neurogenetics  

McNeill and colleagues describe a patient suffering from leukoencephalopathy, brain calcifications and cysts (LCC).

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