In neuropsychology, dysmetria (literally meaning wrong length) is a specific kind of ataxia (loss of control of motor movements) where a patient cannot properly carry out an intended motor movement, ...

The cerebellum is incorporated into the distributed neural circuits subserving motor control, cognitive processing and the modulation of emotion. This lecture provides an overview of anatomical ...

An irresistible urge to move the legs or other areas, often accompanied by unpleasant sensations at night or during rest: Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS) affects millions of people worldwide. Despite ...

Chiari malformation, an anomaly of the posterior cranial fossa, also known as Arnold–Chiari malformation, was described in autopsies by Hans Chiari, an Austrian pathologist, in 1891. He defined four ...

Could an anomaly in the developing brain explain motor difficulties occurring decades later in people with rare movement disorders? These are the genetics being investigated by researchers at ...

People often worry about their brains aging, focusing only on the cerebrum related to memory and dementia. However, the ...

Congenital central hypoventilation syndrome (CCHS) patients show reduced breathing drive during sleep, decreased hypoxic and hypercapnic ventilatory responses, and autonomic and affective deficits, ...

Dr. Kun-Wei Song (Neurology): A 70-year-old woman was admitted to this hospital because of rapidly progressive ataxia. The patient had been in her usual state of good health until 3 months before this ...

Joubert syndrome (JS) is a rare ciliopathy characterised by the molar tooth sign on brain MRI, cerebellar vermis hypoplasia, hypotonia and developmental delay. We report an elementary school-aged boy ...

A 34 year-old woman presented with slowly progressive ataxia and slurred speech since childhood. Examination showed truncal ataxia with dysmetria on finger-to-nose and heel-to-shin testing. Two ...