I have seen the invisible arms of multiple sclerosis, a potentially devastating disease of the nervous system, touch friends, relatives and acquaintances. (scientificamerican.com)
Ahmet Hoke, M.D., Ph.D., professor of neurology, has been named to the board of directors of the American Neurological Association, a professional society of academic neurologists and neuroscientists devoted to advancing the goals of academic neurology, to training and educating neurologists and other physicians in the neurologic sciences, and to expanding the understanding of diseases of the nervous system and the ability to treat them. (hopkinsmedicine.org)
That program seems to go awry in a rare degenerative disease of the nervous system called spinocerebellar ataxia type 1 (SCA1), caused by a mutation similar to the one behind Huntington's disease. (sciencemag.org)