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An autopsy confirmed case of progressive supranuclear palsy with predominant cerebellar ataxia

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Acknowledgments

This study was supported by the Original Technology Research Program for Brain Science through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Korean government (MSIP) (No. 2014M3C7A1064752), and clinical research grant from Pusan National University Hospital 2015. We thank our patient and his family for donating brain to the Pusan National University Hospital Brain Bank to contribute to dementia research.

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    1. Department of Neurology, Pusan National University Hospital, Pusan National University School of Medicine and Medical Research Institute, 1-10 Ami-dong, Seo-gu, Busan, 602-739, Republic of Korea

      Myung Jun Lee, Dae Soo Jung & Eun-Joo Kim

    2. Department of Pathology, Pusan National University Yangsan Hospital, Yangsan, South Korea

      Jeong Hee Lee & Jae Woo Ahn

    3. Department of Neurology, Research Institute for Convergence of Biomedical Science and Technology, Pusan National University Yangsan Hospital, Yangsan, South Korea

      Baik-Kyun Kim, Jae-Hyeok Lee, Jin-Hong Shin & Na-Yeon Jung

    4. Department of Psychiatry, Pusan National University Hospital, Pusan National University School of Medicine and Medical Research Institute, Busan, South Korea

      Young Min Lee

    5. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Pusan National University Hospital, Pusan National University School of Medicine and Medical Research Institute, Busan, South Korea

      Seong-Jang Kim

    6. Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Pusan National University Hospital, Pusan National University School of Medicine and Medical Research Institute, Busan, South Korea

      Myung-Jun Shin

    7. Department of Anatomy, Pusan National University School of Medicine and Medical Research Institute, Yangsan, South Korea

      Suk Sung

    8. Department of Pathology, Pusan National University Hospital, Pusan National University School of Medicine and Medical Research Institute, Busan, South Korea

      Kyung-Un Choi

    9. Department of Neurology, Memory and Aging Center, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA

      William W. Seeley

    10. Department of Forensic Medicine, Pusan National University School of Medicine and Medical Research Institute, Yangsan, South Korea

      Gi Yeong Huh

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    Lee, M.J., Lee, J.H., Kim, BK. et al. An autopsy confirmed case of progressive supranuclear palsy with predominant cerebellar ataxia. J Neurol 263, 2540–2543 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-016-8303-0

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