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ataxic cerebral palsy is one of the illnesses that will burden children with permanent handicaps.  It is caused by damage to the parts of the brain that control movement and balance.  The damage usually occurs before, during or shortly after birth.  Premature babies are at a particularly high risk for this disease because the blood vessels in the central nervous system mature only during the last few weeks of the pregnancy.  The most probable cause is exposure of the developing fetus to a viral infection or an injury to the head, neck and muscles of those same areas.  The severity of the condition varies form case to case and there is no cure, only treatment of the symptoms.