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Stages of sleep pathology in spinocerebellar ataxia type 2 (SCA2).
Neurology - 12 Dec 2006
Tuin I, Voss U, Kang J-S, Kessler K, Rüb U, Nolte D, Lochmüller H, Tinschert S, Claus D, Krakow K, Pflug B, Steinmetz H, Auburger G
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Autosomal dominant spinocerebellar ataxia type 2 (SCA2) bears clinical and neuropathologic similarities to sporadic multisystem atrophy (MSA) or Parkinson disease, in which sleep pathology is well documented. However, those clinical entities have a marked variability of the reported sleep disturbances, and their etiology is heterogeneous. In contrast, the study of SCA2 provides an opportunity to...
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