This page lists all known medications that could potentially lead to 'Spastic paralysis' as a side effect. It's important to note that mild side effects are quite common with medications. The ...

Readers, this might be a little premature but I think disabled people could be seeing a turnaround in their public image over the next few months. First of all, our reputation as good-for-nothing ...

A gene mutation linked to hereditary spastic paraplegia, a disabling neurological disorder, interferes with the normal breakdown of triglyceride fat molecules in the brain, scientists have found. The ...

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 ...

Mutations in 3 genes (SPG4, SPG3, and SPG31) are implicated in one half of the autosomal dominant hereditary spastic paraplegias, which are part of the larger group of hereditary spastic diplegias ...

The frequency of SPG42 and its associated phenotypes is not known, as no further families with SLC33A1 mutations have been described so far. 10 The purpose of this study was to determine the frequency ...

Spastic paraplegia (SP) in hereditary form is a genetically and clinically heterogeneous group of diseases with distinctive features of axonal degeneration in corticospinal tracts. Progressive ...

I had something of an epiphany last year whilst at Edinburgh Fringe. I'd incorporated an old video of me bungee jumping into my act, which had always made me laugh, though I could never quite put my ...