Total 23 clinical symptoms reported for Spinocerebellar ataxia type 8  Occasional (8)Frequent (15)

Aspiration	Inspiration of a foreign object into the airway.	Occasional
Depression	Frequent feelings of being down, miserable, and/or hopeless; difficulty recovering from such moods; pessimism about the future; pervasive shame; feeling of inferior self-worth; thoughts of suicide and suicidal behavior.   Synonyms:Depression; Depressivity	Occasional
Dysphagia	Difficulty in swallowing.   Synonyms:Difficulty swallowing; Poor swallowing; Swallowing difficulties; Swallowing difficulty	Occasional
Facial grimacing	Synonyms:Facial grimacing	Occasional
Hypoplasia of the pons	Underdevelopment of the pons.   Synonyms:Pontine hypoplasia	Occasional
Impaired smooth pursuit	An impairment of the ability to track objects with the ocular smooth pursuit system, a class of rather slow eye movements that minimizes retinal target motion.   Synonyms:Abnormality of visual tracking; Impairment of visual pursuit	Occasional
Impaired vibratory sensation	A decrease in the ability to perceive vibration. Clinically, this is usually tested with a tuning fork which vibrates at 128 Hz and is applied to bony prominences such as the malleoli at the ankles or the metacarpal-phalangeal joints. There is a slow decay of vibration from the tuning fork. The degree of vibratory sense loss can be crudely estimated by counting the number of seconds that the examiner can perceive the vibration longer than the patient.   Synonyms:Decreased vibration sense; Decreased vibratory sense; Diminished vibratory sense; Hypopallesthesia; Impaired vibratory sensation; Impaired vibratory sense	Occasional
Urinary incontinence	Loss of the ability to control the urinary bladder leading to involuntary urination.   Synonyms:Bladder incontinence; Loss of bladder control	Occasional