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 ...

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 ...

Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia (HSP) encompasses a heterogeneous group of genetic neurodegenerative disorders primarily characterised by progressive lower-limb spasticity and weakness. The condition ...

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 ...

Since the moment their daughter Naomi was born, the Lockard family has been on a mission to change the outcome of their children's lives. "Naomi is your typical, two-year-old," said Rebekah and Evan ...

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 ...

You wouldn't know just by looking at the smile on her face, but 3-year-old Naomi Lockard's life is nothing like other children's. "When Naomi was a baby, we had a lot of questions about why she wasn't ...

In a recent publication in Molecular Therapy, researchers from Drexel University College of Medicine and UMass Chan Medical School presented a silence-and-replace gene therapy strategy aiming to ...

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 ...