This paper, Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia-Linked REEP1 Modulates ER Mitochondria Contacts, Ann Neurol. 2015 November ; 78(5): 679–696. doi:10.1002/ana.24488, tells of a protein, REEP1, that disrupts the endoplasmic reticulum-mitochondrial connection membranes, the MAMs in HSP.
This information fully supports the ability of Anavex 2-73 to restore those inter-organelle membrane connections, as it does in Alzheimer’s and other CNS diseases.
The paper tells of the causative involvement of MAMs disconnects in CNS diseases:
The ability of Anavex 2-73 to restore normal ambulation in those transgenic rats with HSP fits with the information in this paper. Not conjecture by any means. Anavex works, by a well-studied and documented mechanism of action (documented elsewhere).