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In the latest edition of touchREVIEWS in Neurology, we are pleased to present a collection of insightful articles that highlight the current landscape and future directions in neurological research and treatment. Firstly, Rajvinder Karda opens this issue with a compelling ...
Friedreich’s ataxia (FRDA), a neurodevelopmental and progressive neurodegenerative disease, is the most common inherited form of ataxia, with disease incidence as high as 1 in 29,000 in Caucasian populations.1 Patients typically present with ataxia from ages 7 to 15 years and lose the ...
Welcome to the latest edition of touchREVIEWS in Neurology, which features a diverse range of topical articles covering therapeutic areas relevant to neurologists and other practitioners involved in the care of patients with neurological illness. We begin with an editorial ...
It has been nearly 160 years since Friedreich’s ataxia (FRDA) was clinically recognized and described1 and 25 years since the FXN gene was discovered.2 Despite this, there are still no approved therapies for FRDA. FRDA is an autosomal, recessively inherited, neurodegenerative ...
The ‘overarching theme’ of this year’s 4th Congress of the European Academy of Neurology (EAN), which was held from 16–19 June 2018 in Lisbon, Portugal, was neurogenetics, a rapidly expanding field. This theme was reflected in numerous presentations, workshops and symposia. ...
The focus of the European Neurological Society (ENS) 2008 meeting confirms the steady interest and progress in the treatment of chronic neurological disorders, which represent a major factor of disability. In the field of multiple sclerosis (MS), a number of new ...
Knowledge on the genetic background of a number of neurological disorders has tremendously increased in the last years. The European Federation of Neurological Societies (EFNS) published guidelines for genetic testing in clinical practice in 2001 in two successive papers.1,2 A new ...
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