NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – Imagine living with a rare, incurable genetic disease. People notice something is wrong with you, but don’t know what it is. A Middle Tennessee man with Hereditary Spastic ...

Hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP), also known as familial spastic paraparesis, is a term used for a group of inherited diseases that affect the upper motor neurons traveling from the brain through ...

There is no cure for the rare disease Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia (HSP), but researchers from Drexel University’s College of Medicine and the UMass Chan Medical School have achieved ...

We describe a family with pure X-linked hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP) and report linkage to X-chromosome DNA probes. A 6-generation pedigree (K313) with 12 affected males is presented. Eight ...