Basic science shows how a single mutation causes ataxia
Illustration of the glutamate transporter (pink) in neural cells (blue), with glutamate and anions in yellow and orange. Credit: A. Guskov, University of Groningen 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…