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

AI-generated voice clones are bringing back the voices of people with MND, allowing some to communicate, connect, and even ...

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 ...

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

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

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder set in motion before birth. Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital led the first in uterotreatment of SMA with ...

Messages or signals from nerve cells in the brain's upper motor neurons ... Over time, individuals with Motor Neuron Diseases may lose the ability to walk or control other movements.

It is the first comprehensive cellular analysis of ALS, carried out using single-cell RNA sequencing in 14 patients and 14 ...

Infections, chemicals, stress—these environmental factors influence the risk of developing psychiatric or neurological ...

Boosting communication between the spinal nerves and the muscles using the spinal cord stimulation reverses spinal muscle ...