A Menomonee Falls family is suing Children's Wisconsin after their daughter's donated brain was thrown away.Ashtyn Fellenz was diagnosed with Canavan disease when she was just ...

Ashtyn Fellenz had a fatal brain disease. Her family wanted to donate her brain to science. They allege Children's Wisconsin ...

Canavan Disease Genetically based, this rare autosomal, recessive, inherited disorder is marked by common symptoms that include onset in infancy between ages 3 and 6 months, macrocephaly ...

As a child, she was diagnosed with Canavan Disease, a rare genetic disorder that causes the degeneration of the coating that protects nerves and a loss of white matter in the brain, according to ...

Ashtyn Fellenz died at age 24 on December 5, 2024. As a child, she was diagnosed with Canavan Disease, a rare genetic disorder that causes the degeneration of the coating that protects nerves and ...

Children with Canavan progressively lose the ability to use their muscles and become trapped inside their own bodies, like a living rag doll. Without intervention, most children with the disease ...

After months of delays due to the pandemic, an MRI in August 2021 confirmed a diagnosis: Canavan disease, a rare and fatal genetic disorder affecting the central nervous system.

Guangping Gao, founding chair of the Department of Genetic & Cellular Medicine at UMass Chan Medical School, who with NIH support, developed a gene therapy to treat Canavan disease which led to a ...

People with the disease cannot move or communicate and many die in early childhood. But it is also so rare that, at the time, the pediatrician’s young patient was the only known case of Canavan ...

For example, one type of leukodystrophy, Canavan disease, causes decreased muscle tone, especially in the neck, and abnormally straight legs and flexed arms. It can also include symptoms like ...