Doctors diagnosed Carmen Lopez with spinal muscle atrophy (SMA) at birth, a rare genetic disorder that affects motor neurons ...

But the performance of the technology—how easily and accurately a BCI user’s thoughts move a cursor, for example—is limited ...

A team of researchers from the Sant Pau Research Institute (IR Sant Pau) has published a study in the Journal of ...

Sleep's role to down-scale glutamate, excitatory, frontal cortical synapses is extended to include an up-scaling of metaplastic LTP potential, in recovery from prolonged waking induced saturation of ...

A new electrical stimulation therapy for spinal muscle atrophy (SMA) has shown promise in reactivating motor neurons and ...

Boosting communication between the spinal nerves and the muscles using the spinal cord stimulation reverses spinal muscle atrophy (SMA) progression and could be applied to other motoneuron diseases, ...

The family of a boy living with motor neurone disease have said it was a "massive shock" for him to be diagnosed at the age of 13. Kyle Sieniawski, from Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taf, started to lose ...

The fundraising social dance organised by Mary Lynch in Nenagh last November raised a very impressive total of €4,120 for the Irish Motor Neurone Disease Association. This was the fifth staging of the ...

Motor neurons project from the central nervous system to innervate muscle cells to either directly or indirectly control their activity. Contact between a motor neuron and muscle cell is usually ...

To counteract neurodegeneration, we need two things – stop neuron death and restore function of surviving ... manifests in progressive death and functional decline of motor neurons -- nerve cells that ...

Australia Objectives Motor Neurone Disease (MND) is fatal neurological disease. Hypermetabolism (increased resting energy expenditure (REE)) and loss of body weight occur in MND. We aimed to determine ...