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• One mutation in Prickle1 gene can result in Prickle1-Related Progressive Myoclonus Epilepsy-Ataxia Syndrome.
• Features of MERRF, along with myoclonus epilepsy seizures, include ataxia, peripheral neuropathy, and dementia.
• "' May White syndrome "'is a rare progressive myoclonus epilepsy with lipomas, deafness, and ataxia.
• For his doctoral dissertation, Lundborg researched one of the genetic progressive myoclonus epilepsies first described by Heinrich Unverricht in 1891.
• Heinrich Unverricht is most remembered for his research of epilepsy, especially his work with progressive myoclonus epilepsies ( PME ).
• Progressive myoclonus epilepsy now is diagnosed primarily through a process of elimination and a precise test could help determine the optimum treatment.
• For example, scientists now know that loss of a protein called cystatin B causes increasingly bad seizures in " progressive myoclonus epilepsy ."
• Cerebellar atrophy has been observed in many other neurological disorders including Huntington's disease, multiple sclerosis, essential tremor, progressive myoclonus epilepsy, and Niemann Pick disease.
• Progressive myoclonus epilepsy accounts for about 1 percent of epilepsy cases worldwide, and experts say only a few hundred Americans are known to be afflicted.
• In people with progressive myoclonus epilepsy, the gene is defective and fails to produce cystatin B, which is normally found in all human tissues, the researchers found.
• Phenytoin, a drug commonly used to treat epilepsy under the brand name Dilantin, can cause dangerous, and sometimes fatal, reactions in people with progressive myoclonus epilepsy, Myers said.
• Two main clinical subtypes have been described : progressive myoclonus epilepsy ( type A ) and dementia with motor disturbances, such as cerebellar, extrapyramidal signs and dyskinesia ( type B ).