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  1. Friedreich ataxia is the most frequent hereditary ataxia worldwide. Subclinical visual and auditory involvement has been recognized in these patients, with co-occurrence of severe blindness and deafness being ...

    Authors: Joana Damásio, Ana Sardoeira, Maria Araújo, Isabel Carvalho, Jorge Sequeiros and José Barros
    Citation: Cerebellum & Ataxias 2021 8:17
  2. Smaller expansions of CGG trinucleotide repeats in the FMR1 X-linked gene termed ‘premutation’ lead to a neurodegenerative disorder: Fragile X Associated Tremor/Ataxia Syndrome (FXTAS) in nearly half of aged carr...

    Authors: Elsdon Storey, Minh Q. Bui, Paige Stimpson, Flora Tassone, Anna Atkinson and Danuta Z. Loesch
    Citation: Cerebellum & Ataxias 2021 8:15
  3. Paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration (PCD) is a classic neurological syndrome where the presence of Anti-Tr/DNER antibodies is strongly associated with Hodgkin Lymphoma (HL). Awareness of the syndrome is imp...

    Authors: Peter Broegger Christensen, Henrik Gregersen and Charlotte Almasi
    Citation: Cerebellum & Ataxias 2021 8:14
  4. The purpose of this article is to argue that the patterns of sequence control over kinematics (movements) and dynamics (forces) which evolved in phonological processing in inner speech during the evolution of ...

    Authors: Larry Vandervert and Kimberly Moe
    Citation: Cerebellum & Ataxias 2021 8:13
  5. Gluten sensitivity can manifest with a spectrum of neurological dysfunction including ataxia, encephalopathy and neuropathy with or without associated coeliac disease (CD). Gluten sensitivity can also present ...

    Authors: Lewis Kass-Iliyya, Ptolemaios G. Sarrigiannis, David S. Sanders and Marios Hadjivassiliou
    Citation: Cerebellum & Ataxias 2021 8:12
  6. Spinocerebellar ataxia type 31 (SCA31) is caused by non-coding pentanucleotide repeat expansions in the BEAN1 gene. Clinically, SCA31 is characterized by late adult-onset, pure cerebellar ataxia. To explore the a...

    Authors: Ryohei Norioka, Keizo Sugaya, Aki Murayama, Tomoya Kawazoe, Shinsuke Tobisawa, Akihiro Kawata and Kazushi Takahashi
    Citation: Cerebellum & Ataxias 2021 8:11
  7. Regardless of the cause of the superficial siderosis (SS) disease, which is bleeding, the source of bleeding cannot be found in some cases.

    Authors: Shakila Meshkat, Parnia Ebrahimi, Abbas Tafakhori, Aidin Taghiloo, Sajad Shafiee, Amir Salimi and Vajiheh Aghamollaii
    Citation: Cerebellum & Ataxias 2021 8:9
  8. Spinocerebellar ataxia is a hereditary neurodegenerative disease characterized by changes in balance, locomotion and motor coordination. Stem cell therapies are currently being investigated as an alternative t...

    Authors: Pablo Andrei Appelt, Kristin Comella, Luciane Aparecida Pascucci Sande de Souza and Gustavo José Luvizutto
    Citation: Cerebellum & Ataxias 2021 8:8
  9. Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) of the cerebellum dynamically modulates cerebello-thalamo-cortical excitability in a polarity-specific manner during motor, visuo- motor and cognitive tasks. It r...

    Authors: F. Grami, G. de Marco, F. Bodranghien, M. Manto and C. Habas
    Citation: Cerebellum & Ataxias 2021 8:7
  10. Immune mediated cerebellar ataxias account for a substantial proportion of all progressive ataxias. A diagnostic serological test is not always available. This is particularly problematic in Primary Autoimmune...

    Authors: Marios Hadjivassiliou, Graeme Wild, Priya Shanmugarajah, Richard A. Grünewald and Mohammed Akil
    Citation: Cerebellum & Ataxias 2021 8:6
  11. Cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis (CTX) is a rare but treatable neurometabolic disorder of lipid storage and bile acid synthesis. Whilst CTX is said to present with the classic triad of juvenile onset cataracts, ...

    Authors: Mahjabin Islam, Nigel Hoggard and Marios Hadjivassiliou
    Citation: Cerebellum & Ataxias 2021 8:5
  12. COVID-19 outbreak profoundly impacted on daily-life of patients with neurodegenerative diseases, including those with ataxia. Effects on interventional trials have been recently described. Conversely, changes ...

    Authors: Tommaso Schirinzi, Andrea Sancesario, Enrico Castelli, Enrico Bertini and Gessica Vasco
    Citation: Cerebellum & Ataxias 2021 8:4
  13. Erdheim-Chester disease (ECD), a rare disorder of monocyte/macrophage lineage, has been related to cerebellar dysfunction. To increase the awareness of this rare, protean disease, an unusual, myasthenia-like o...

    Authors: Eleonora Lauricella, Antonio d’Amati, Giuseppe Ingravallo, Maurizio Foresio, Domenico Ribatti, Marina de Tommaso, Mauro Cives and Francesco Girolamo
    Citation: Cerebellum & Ataxias 2021 8:3
  14. Non-invasive cerebellar stimulation (NICS) aims to modulate cerebello-cerebral loops and cerebro-spinal loops, both for research and clinical applications. It is of paramount importance to establish and valida...

    Authors: Mario Manto, Shinji Kakei and Hiroshi Mitoma
    Citation: Cerebellum & Ataxias 2021 8:2
  15. Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) over the prefrontal cortex has been shown to modulate subjective, neuronal and neuroendocrine responses, particularly in the context of stress processing. However...

    Authors: Delia A. Gheorghe, Muriel T. N. Panouillères and Nicholas D. Walsh
    Citation: Cerebellum & Ataxias 2021 8:1
  16. Eye–hand coordination (EHC) is a sophisticated act that requires interconnected processes governing synchronization of ocular and manual motor systems. Precise, timely and skillful movements such as reaching f...

    Authors: John-Ross Rizzo, Mahya Beheshti, Tahereh Naeimi, Farnia Feiz, Girish Fatterpekar, Laura J. Balcer, Steven L. Galetta, Aasef G. Shaikh, Janet C. Rucker and Todd E. Hudson
    Citation: Cerebellum & Ataxias 2020 7:14
  17. Despite the broad development of next-generation sequencing approaches recently, such as whole-exome sequencing, diagnostic workup of adult-onset progressive cerebellar ataxias without remarkable family histor...

    Authors: José Luiz Pedroso, Wladimir Bocca Vieira de Rezende Pinto, Orlando Graziani Povoas Barsottini and Acary Souza Bulle Oliveira
    Citation: Cerebellum & Ataxias 2020 7:13
  18. Spinocerebellar ataxias (SCA) are highly heterogenous group of neurodegenerative diseases causing progressive cerebellar dysfunction. We report the first description of relative frequencies of the common SCA m...

    Authors: Norlinah Mohamed Ibrahim, Yue Hui Lau, Noorasyikin Ariffin, Siti Hajar Md Desa, Elena Azizan, Long Kha Chin, Shahrul Azmin Md Rani, Yusnita Yakob, Santhi Datuk Puvanarajah and Bart van de Warrenburg
    Citation: Cerebellum & Ataxias 2020 7:11
  19. Essential tremor is a common movement disorder with an unclear origin. Emerging evidence suggests the role of the cerebellum and the thalamus in tremor pathophysiology. We examined the two main neurotransmitte...

    Authors: Sofie Tapper, Nathanael Göransson, Peter Lundberg, Anders Tisell and Peter Zsigmond
    Citation: Cerebellum & Ataxias 2020 7:8
  20. Spinocerebellar ataxia type 23 (SCA23) is an autosomal dominant cerebellar ataxia caused by pathogenic variants in the prodynorphin gene (PDYN). The frequency of PDYN variants is reportedly very low (~ 0.1%) in s...

    Authors: Shunichi Satoh, Yasufumi Kondo, Shinji Ohara, Tomomi Yamaguchi, Katsuya Nakamura and Kunihiro Yoshida
    Citation: Cerebellum & Ataxias 2020 7:7
  21. Friedreich ataxia (FRDA) is the most frequent form of inherited ataxias. Vestibular and auditory assessments are not commonly part of the check up for these patients despite hearing and balance complaints. Scr...

    Authors: A. Maudoux, N. Teissier, M. Francois, Th. Van Den Abbeele, C. Alberti, I. Husson and S. R. Wiener-Vacher
    Citation: Cerebellum & Ataxias 2020 7:6
  22. The syndrome of oculopalatal tremor is a known consequence of lesions in the dentate-olivary pathway. Hypertrophic degeneration of the inferior olive is a recognized pathological correlate of these lesions and...

    Authors: Jorge C. Kattah, Rodger J. Elble, Jeffrey De Santo and Aasef G. Shaikh
    Citation: Cerebellum & Ataxias 2020 7:4
  23. There is abundant evidence for cerebellar involvement in schizophrenia, where the cerebellum has been suggested to contribute to cognitive, affective and motor dysfunction. More recently, specific cerebellar r...

    Authors: Joshua Krämer, Markus Huber, Christina Mundinger, Mike M. Schmitgen, Roger Pycha, Erwin Kirchler, Christian Macina, Martin Karner, Dusan Hirjak, Katharina M. Kubera, Malte S. Depping, Dmitry Romanov, Roland W. Freudenmann and Robert Christian Wolf
    Citation: Cerebellum & Ataxias 2020 7:2
  24. The recessive ataxia ARCA2 is a rare disorder characterized by Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) deficiency due to biallelic mutations in ADCK3 gene. Despite the pathophysiological role, available data are not univocal on cli...

    Authors: Tommaso Schirinzi, Martina Favetta, Alberto Romano, Andrea Sancesario, Susanna Summa, Silvia Minosse, Ginevra Zanni, Enrico Castelli, Enrico Bertini, Maurizio Petrarca and Gessica Vasco
    Citation: Cerebellum & Ataxias 2019 6:15
  25. Mutations in the Inositol 1,4,5-Trisphosphate Receptor Type 1 (ITPR1) gene cause spinocerebellar ataxia type 29 (SCA29), a rare congenital-onset autosomal dominant non-progressive cerebellar ataxia. The Māori, in...

    Authors: Kathie J. Ngo, Gemma Poke, Katherine Neas and Brent L. Fogel
    Citation: Cerebellum & Ataxias 2019 6:14
  26. Nonmotor symptoms (NMS) have been increasingly recognized in a number of neurodegenerative diseases with a burden of disability that parallels or even surpasses that induced by motor symptoms. As NMS have ofte...

    Authors: Adriana Moro, Mariana Moscovich, Marina Farah, Carlos Henrique F. Camargo, Hélio A. G. Teive and Renato P. Munhoz
    Citation: Cerebellum & Ataxias 2019 6:12
  27. Disorders of the cerebellum may present with motor, cognitive, behavioral and affective symptoms. There is a growing interest in developing neuroanatomical models of symptoms generation that involve the cerebe...

    Authors: Emanuela Molinari, Maria Oto, Ashita Waterston and Natasha Fullerton
    Citation: Cerebellum & Ataxias 2019 6:11
  28. Friedreich ataxia (FRDA) is the most common familial ataxia syndrome in Central and Southern Europe but rare in Scandinavia. Biallelic mutations in SH3 domain and tetratricopeptide repeats 2 (SH3TC2) cause Charco...

    Authors: Humberto Skott, Cristina Muntean-Firanescu, Kristin Samuelsson, Luca Verrecchia, Per Svenningsson, Helena Malmgren, Carmen Cananau, Alberto J. Espay, Rayomand Press, Göran Solders and Martin Paucar
    Citation: Cerebellum & Ataxias 2019 6:9
  29. Paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration is usually associated with gynecological and breast cancer, lung cancer, and Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Renal cell carcinoma has rarely been described as an underlying malignanc...

    Authors: Sara M. Souza, Barbara O. Santos, Isadora C.A. Sodré, Ana Luiza P. Oliveira, Diogo Terrana and Mariana Spitz
    Citation: Cerebellum & Ataxias 2019 6:8
  30. Multiple system atrophy (MSA) is a sporadic adult-onset neurodegenerative disease with a cerebellar subtype where ataxic symptoms predominate (MSA-C) associated with autonomic dysfunction and a grave prognosis...

    Authors: Viren H. Kadodwala, Marios Hadjivassiliou, Stuart Currie, Nicholas Skipper and Nigel Hoggard
    Citation: Cerebellum & Ataxias 2019 6:7
  31. Within the context of Clausi, Olivito, Lupo, Siciliano, Bozzali and Leggio’s (Cell Neurosci 12:510, 2019) insightful study of how prediction of theory of mind (ToM) is compromised in degenerative cerebellar at...

    Authors: Larry Vandervert
    Citation: Cerebellum & Ataxias 2019 6:6

    The Publisher Correction to this article has been published in Cerebellum & Ataxias 2019 6:10

  32. Tremor is a common side effect of treatment with lithium. Its characteristics can vary and when less rhythmical, distinction from myoclonus can be difficult.

    Authors: Ptolemaios Georgios Sarrigiannis, Panagiotis Zis, Zoe Charlotte Unwin, Daniel J. Blackburn, Nigel Hoggard, Yifan Zhao, Stephen A. Billings, Aijaz A. Khan, John Yianni and Marios Hadjivassiliou
    Citation: Cerebellum & Ataxias 2019 6:5
  33. Fetal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), mainly performed at standard field strength, plays a role in the classification of posterior fossa malformations. In the context of early second-trimester screening, upw...

    Authors: Thomas Kau, Robert Birnbacher, Peter Schwärzler, Sandra Habernig, Hannes Deutschmann and Eugen Boltshauser
    Citation: Cerebellum & Ataxias 2019 6:4
  34. Cognitive decline is a common non-motor feature characterizing Spinocerebellar Ataxia type 2 (SCA2) during the prodromal stage, nevertheless a reduced number of surrogate biomarkers of these alterations have b...

    Authors: Roberto Rodríguez-Labrada, Luis Velázquez-Pérez, Ricardo Ortega-Sánchez, Arnoy Peña-Acosta, Yaimeé Vázquez-Mojena, Nalia Canales-Ochoa, Jacqueline Medrano-Montero, Reidenis Torres-Vega and Yanetza González-Zaldivar
    Citation: Cerebellum & Ataxias 2019 6:3
  35. CAPOS (Cerebellar ataxia, Areflexia, Pes cavus, Optic atrophy and Sensorineural hearing loss) syndrome is caused by the heterozygous mutation, c.2452G > A, in the ATP1A3 gene. Other mutations in this gene can cau...

    Authors: Ida Stenshorne, Magnhild Rasmussen, Panagiotis Salvanos, Chantal M. E. Tallaksen, Laurence A. Bindoff and Jeanette Koht
    Citation: Cerebellum & Ataxias 2019 6:2
  36. Eye movements are frequently considered diagnostic markers indicating involvement of the cerebellum. Impaired amplitude of saccades (saccade dysmetria), impaired gaze holding function (horizontal or downbeat n...

    Authors: Kelsey Jensen, Sinem Balta Beylergil and Aasef G. Shaikh
    Citation: Cerebellum & Ataxias 2019 6:1
  37. In Patients with spinocerebellar ataxia type 6 (SCA6) are often treated by transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) over the motor cortex and cerebellum. However, few reports have examined effective therapeutic...

    Authors: Kentaro Kawamura, Seiji Etoh and Megumi Shimodozono
    Citation: Cerebellum & Ataxias 2018 5:15
  38. Many children with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) have focal abnormal signal intensities (FASI) on brain MRI, whose full clinical impact and natural history have not been studied systematically. Our aims are t...

    Authors: Michael S Salman, Shakhawat Hossain, Lina Alqublan, Martin Bunge and Katya Rozovsky
    Citation: Cerebellum & Ataxias 2018 5:14
  39. Focal abnormal signal intensities (FASI) on brain MRI occur commonly in patients with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1). The natural history of cerebellar FASI and their correlation with clinical features have no...

    Authors: Michael S. Salman, Shakhawat Hossain, Samantha Gorun, Lina Alqublan, Martin Bunge and Katya Rozovsky
    Citation: Cerebellum & Ataxias 2018 5:13