Ask the Ataxia Expert with Dr. Susan Perlman | January 2024

Dr. Susan Perlman of UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles joined us on January 10, 2024, to answer the community's questions about Ataxia. 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.

[@AJD-Home]

Breaking the video up into time stamped chapters that refer to the questions being asked and answers provided would be very useful for viewers. Thank you.

[@jenchristianrn1]

Thank you for this useful information 🎊 ❤

[@danielray5846]

What is the best drug for ataxia?

[@SB-qv3yo]

What about Pernic Anemia, Fatty Acid Metabolic Dis, SCA7 (7) post cholecystectomy? Been observing causual relation in ALS + Taxas

[@leosales8097]

Hi, im in South Africa and my 2 daughters diagnosed with Frederich Ataxia. The big challenge i have in my country is that, most of the Dr dont understand it. In sitting with a problem of do i access the opportunity for the treatments trials because im a South African?

[@leosales8097]

Im not talking bad about our Dr's but it is a fact and truth because most of them they never came across this type of the disease. Im getting so concerned because i can see that my daughters are getting worse everyday. I dont know which Vitamins can you recommend for them?

[@deborahtofflemire7727]

CBD made it worse. Caused more migraine.