However, there are a number of diverse treatments which together have been used to limit the negative effects of the condition. Like all forms of CP it is most common for ataxic cerebral palsy to be congenital, resulting from errors in the development of the cerebellum and connexins during pregnancy. However it is also possible to be acquired via meningitis or even by head trauma,[5] although the latter more often leads to one of the many forms of traumatic brain injury, which is categorically separate from cerebral palsy as a class.