Home › Articles › Pediatrics › Childhood-onset neurodegeneration with brain atrophy: Symptoms, Diagnosis and Treatment
Childhood-onset neurodegeneration with brain atrophy: Symptoms, Diagnosis and Treatment
By Dr. Aaron Bailey, MD · · Pediatrics
This article from Weyland-Yutani Health System's Pediatrics service line explains childhood-onset neurodegeneration with brain atrophy in plain language.
About this topic
Topic: childhood-onset neurodegeneration with brain atrophy. A neurodegenerative disease characterized by loss of motor and cognitive skills between ages 2 and 7 years with progressive cerebral and cerebellar atrophy, resulting in the inability to walk, absence of language, and profound intellectual disability, that has_material_basis_in heterozygous mutation in the UBTF gene on chromosome 17q21.31.
Mentioned in this article
Related care
- hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
- facial morphology assessment by type
- sleep medicine specialist evaluation
Always talk with your care team before making decisions about your health. This content is educational only.