Wednesday 22 February 2012

Some more website links


During my surfing, I've found a few more links to useful things:

A federation of national HSP support groups covering Denmark, France,Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Spain and the UK:
http://sites.google.com/site/eurohsp/who-we-are

The HSP entry in the rare diseases community - links to support groups and plenty of recent posts with peoples stories. I'm pleased to see that there's a link to this blog here!
http://www.rarediseasecommunities.org/en/community/hereditary-spastic-paraplegia?

Some 2011 research giving a detailed account of the biochemical workings of atlastin, a protein produced by one of the genes linked to HSP:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110708124544.htm

A blog post reporting some research from 2004 into how spastin is involved in neuronal communication.
http://scienceblog.com/community/older/2004/2/20041849.shtml

Another site with a summary of the condition:
http://www.asktheneurologist.com/hereditary-spastic-paraparesis.html

And just for fun, the misspellin version of wikipedia. p.s. its not may fault of you spend hours just looking up other stuff on this page!
http://www.wikipeetia.org/Hereditari_spastic_paraplegia

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