Mike Wolanin | The Republic Kyle Alumbaugh demonstrates how he uses his wheelchair ramp participate in 5k run, walk or roll to raise awareness for Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia and Primary Lateral ...

Hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP), also known as familial spastic paraparesis, is a term used for a group of inherited diseases that affect the upper motor neurons traveling from the brain through ...

There is no cure for the rare disease Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia (HSP), but researchers from Drexel University's College of Medicine and the UMass Chan Medical School have achieved ...

Hereditary spastic paraplegias (HSP) are a group of hereditary diseases that result in progressive loss of motor function in the lower limbs, and mutations in many different genes have been implicated ...

(Philadelphia, PA) – While it might have given our ancestors an evolutionary advantage, an "unstable" region on human chromosome 15 is also the source of a set of inherited neurological diseases.

Boston Children's Hospital has received $8.1M in NIH funding to support and expand the Spastic Paraplegia Centers of Excellence Research Network (SP-CERN). Darius Ebrahimi-Fakhari, M.D., Ph.D., ...

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 ...

TUCSON, Arizona (KGUN) — Sitting in his wheelchair, junior at Catalina Foothills High School Ethan Bennett was pushed onstage by his partner Lily Rhodes. While he can move around, he can’t walk or ...

Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia (HSP) encompasses a heterogeneous group of genetic neurodegenerative disorders primarily characterised by progressive lower-limb spasticity and weakness. The condition ...