The NFL and NFL Players Association added a new set of criteria a player must meet to return to play under its new concussion protocol, barring any player exhibiting signs of ataxia from re-entering a ...

Friedreich's ataxia is a hereditary disorder that leads to progressive and irreversible damage to the nervous system. Initial signs of the condition include problems with balance, speech and ...

SALT LAKE CITY - Scientists report a significant step toward combatting two degenerative brain diseases that chip away at an individual's ability to move, and think. A targeted therapy developed by ...

(L-R): Pelham musician and family man John Parnell is an ataxia sufferer (Tamika Moore/[email protected]); Dr. Harrison Walker, a neurologist at The University of Alabama at Birmingham, diagnosed Parnell ...

The Dolphins became the first case study for the NFL’s updated concussion protocol on Sunday, as the league’s new no-go symptom kept quarterback Teddy Bridgewater out of the team’s 40-17 loss to the ...

The concussion recently suffered by Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa showed that understanding and properly managing head injuries remains a continuously evolving lesson. The NFL and NFLPA ...

Neurological disorders of gait, balance and posture are both debilitating and common. Adequate recognition of these so-called disorders of axial mobility is important as they can offer useful clues to ...

Against the Jets in Week 14, Texans quarterback C.J. Stroud officially suffered a concussion. The prior week against the Broncos, Stroud officially did not. Unofficially, he might have. Look at this ...

~ Neurocrine Biosciences to pay Voyager Therapeutics $165 million upfront + up to $1.7 billion in potential milestone payments for collaboration in Parkinson’s disease and Friedreich’s ataxia ~ ...