Recent reports detected MRI features mimicking the “eye of a tiger” sign, most commonly associated with pantothenate kinase e-associated neurodegeneration (PKAN), in SPG7 and the closely related spastic ataxia 5 (AFG3L2-mutated) patients (Calandra et al., 2020; Rizzo et al., 2020). Here, SPG7 is linked to spastic ataxia.