In what experts are calling a “dream come true,” scientists used a recent biochemical discovery to help an 8-year-old boy ...

The Whitrod family launched Genetic Cures for Kids in the hopes of finding a treatment for their daughter with hereditary ...

Background In the clinically and genetically heterogeneous group of the hereditary spastic paraplegias (HSPs), mutations in the SPAST gene are most frequently found and cause a pure autosomal dominant ...

Electromyography (EMG) is used as medical tool to display muscle activity and gain information about the health status of the patients muscle function, which may be affected by many kind of diseases.

Movement disorders are determining clinical syndrome of cerebral palsy (CP). The prevalence of CP in Russia is 2.2–3.3 cases per 1000 newborns; 85–90% of them are spastic forms. Complex treatment of ...