As part of an interdisciplinary collaboration with the University of Minnesota Leatherdale Equine Center, Dr. Juergen Konczak,  director of the Human Sensorimotor Control Laboratory, has published a paper on the neuropathological mechanism of an equine movement disorder called “shivers.” The cause of the disease was unknown until post-mortem analysis of affected horses showed, for the first time, that selective degeneration of Purkinje cells in the cerebellum is present in these horses. Dr. Stephanie Valberg from the College of Veterinary Medicine is the lead author of the paper. Dr. Anibal Armien was the neuropathologist on the team. The publication will appear in a future edition of the journal Veterinary Pathology.