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Artificial neural network reproduces gait patterns of four-legged animals

Imagine a horse stumbling on a rock. It regains momentum, then hits bumpier terrain and slows to a walk. Back on steady ...

Tango Therapy: How the Dance of Passion Is Helping Parkinson’s Patients

Once a week, patients in an Argentine hospital with Parkinson’s disease use the movements of tango to help address issues of ...
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Dismay as FDA declines to approve Biohaven's ataxia drug

Biohaven's troriluzole candidate for spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA) has been turned down by the FDA, causing shares in the company to lose more than 40% of their value in pre-market trading. The news is ...

How you walk could help doctors tell two similar brain diseases apart

Doctors often struggle to distinguish early dementia with Lewy bodies from early Parkinson's disease. The two neurological ...
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Biogen’s Skyclarys is first EU drug for Friedreich’s ataxia

After getting a green light from the European Commission, Biogen’s Skyclarys is the first approved medicine for the inherited neurological disease Friedreich’s ataxia (FA) in the EU. Skyclarys ...