Development of a brief ataxia rating scale (BARS) based on a modified form of the ICARS

Jeremy D. Schmahmann, MD *, Raquel Gardner, MD, Jason MacMore, BA, Mark G. Vangel, PhD

Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

email: Jeremy D. Schmahmann (jschmahmann@partners.org)

^*Correspondence to Jeremy D. Schmahmann, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Suite 340, Charles River Plaza South, 55 Fruit Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02114

Keywords

ataxia • dysmetria • rating scale • assessment • cerebellum