International Cooperative Ataxia Rating Scale for pharmacological assessment of the cerebellar syndrome

P Trouillas, T Takayanagi, M Hallett, RD Currier… - Journal of the …, 1997 - Elsevier
Despite the involvement of cerebellar ataxia in a large variety of conditions and its frequent
association with other neurological symptoms, the quantification of the specific core of the
cerebellar syndrome is possible and useful in Neurology. Recent studies have shown that
cerebellar ataxia might be sensitive to various types of pharmacological agents, but the
scales used for assessment were all different. With the long-term goal of double-blind
controlled trials—multicentric and international—an ad hoc Committee of the World …