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 ...

Despite modern high-throughput sequencing, the genetic cause of most rare movement disorders remains unclear. A research team in Bochum and Tübingen has now solved one piece of the puzzle: The ...

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 ...

My son is a constant loop in my thought track. My son is the boy you can hear from outside the house or from the other room, making sounds that seem to have no form. My son is quiet, sometimes for ...

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 ...

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 ...