Ask the Ataxia Expert with Dr. Susan Perlman | April 2023

Every other month, NAF invites an expert to answer your questions about Ataxia. Dr. Susan Perlman of UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles joined us on April 11, 2023 to answer questions. The National Ataxia Foundation is proud to present this next installment in our Ask the Expert series.
To learn from other sessions with Dr. Perlman, visit www.ataxia.org/AsktheExpert
Ataxia is a rare neurological disease that can have a wide array of genetic origins. For more information on Ataxia, please visit our website: www.ataxia.org
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About the Expert
Susan Perlman, MD is a graduate of Cornell University and the State University of New York at Stony Brook School of Medicine. She did an internship in medicine, her residency in neurology, and a two-year fellowship in Friedreich's Ataxia at UCLA Medical Center. Dr. Perlman is currently a Clinical Professor of Neurology and Director of the Ataxia Center at the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, CA. She has been head of the Ataxia Center at UCLA since 1983. She has worked in Ataxia diagnosis for over 30 years and has networked with other “Ataxologists” across the country and around the world, trying to build better collaboration in the development to treatments and ultimately cures. She helped develop the National Ataxia Database for clinical research. She is participating in 2 natural history studies (for dominant Ataxia and Friedreich’s Ataxia) and has participated in 7 clinical drug trials. Dr. Perlman would like to expand the work being done in non-genetic Ataxia as well. Dr. Perlman authored Evaluation and Management of Ataxic Disorders: An Overview for Physicians which has become a valuable resource for NAF.

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I've been diagnosed with cerebellar ataxia. I've had a decline in motor skills for about 6 yrs. Is there any way to stop this decline.?? My balance is getting worse and I'm getting weaker by the week. HELP.

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Is it possible to have only a few chromosome repetition and still develop Ataxia. I am referring to SCA3 that runs in the family. Thank you

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