The Canadian Movement Disorder Group


Ataxia Resources

Disorder

Resource

 

Address

Phone /  Email / WWW. address

Ataxia

National Ataxia Foundation

USA

 

2600 Fernbrook Lane, #119 Minneapolis, MN 55447

TEL: 1-612-553-0020

Fax: 1-612-553-0167

www.ataxia.org

 

 

 

 

 

Machado-Joseph Disease

International Joseph Disease Foundation Inc.

USA

 

PO Box 2550
Livermore, California 94551-2550

Ph: 1-510-371-1287

 

 

 

 

 

Ataxia in General

Detailed site on Classification of Ataxias

 

http://www.neuro.wustl.edu/neuromuscular/ataxia/aindex.html

Resources to obtain and further understanding of the topic. A starting point for researchers, physicians, medical school students, health and policy professionals, and other biotechnology and science professionals.

(Not recommended to the lay public)

 

http://databank.oxydex.com/compendium_bibliographium/advanced_m edical_specialties_1/ataxia.html

A Medical Proffessional Directed Site on Cerebellar and Spinocerebellar Disorders

 

http://www.merck.com/pubs/mmanual/section14/chapter179/179g.htm

INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON INHERITED ATAXIAS

Montreal - May 29 - June 1, 1997
Summary  by Martha Nance, MD

 

http://www.ataxia.org/generations/archive/synopsis.html

Hereditary Ataxia Overview
Author: Thomas D Bird, MD;

 

http://www.geneclinics.org/profiles/ataxias/details.html

Cerebellar Disorders
Timothy C. Hain, MD

The main goal of this page is to serve as a repository for recent information about inherited
cerebellar degenerations.

 

http://www.tchain.com/otoneurology/disorders/central/cerebellar.htm

 

Multiple System Atrophy

 By members of the National Parkinson Foundation Center of
     Excellence at Vanderbilt University,

 

http://www.parkinson.org/atrophy.htm

 

OPCA

Olivo-Ponto-

Cerebellar Atrophy

Olivopontocerebellar
Atrophy
Synonyms: Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 1, Spinocerebellar
Ataxia Type 2
Authored by Joseph Quinn, MD,

 

http://www.emedicine.com/NEURO/topic282.htm

OPCA awareness site. 

Individual stories, a discussion forom for OPCA sufferers and their loved ones

 

 

 www.alyshia.com/opca