Voltage‐gated calcium channels, particularly the CaV2.1 channels encoded by the CACNA1A gene, are central to cerebellar function and synaptic transmission. Dysfunction in these channels leads to a ...

Researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have discovered the underlying cause of a type of ataxia, hereditary disorders characterized by poor balance, loss of ...

Worldwide, only a handful of patients are known to suffer from episodic ataxia type 6, a neurological disease that causes transient loss of muscle control. The cause lies in a mutation that changes a ...