Who inspired the creation of the MINDlink Foundation?
Monte and Susan Lake created MINDlink because their daughter, Catie Lake, suffers from a rare disorder, spinocerebellar ataxia 17 (SCA 17). Stricken with the crippling effects of this cerebellar-based progressive disease at age 20, losing the ability to speak and rapidly degenerating from physical normality to a wheel chair by the age of 24, Catie’s experience inspired them to raise awareness and drive support for research that will benefit her and literally millions of others with neurological disorders with a cerebellar component.
