Identifying during early adulthood fragile X-associated tremor/ataxia syndrome, a Parkinson's-like disorder of middle age

The very earliest signs of a debilitating neurodegenerative disorder, in which physical symptoms are not apparent until the fifth decade of life, are detectable in individuals as young as 30 years old using a new, sophisticated type of neuroimaging, researchers at UC Davis, the University of Illinois and UCLA have found.