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Rare genetic disorder treated in womb for the first time
A two-and-a-half-year-old girl shows no signs of a rare genetic disorder, after becoming the first person to be treated for ...
Solving the brain's motion-source separation problem: Individual neurons distinguish internal from external motion
Neuroscientists have discovered how the brain distinguishes between visual motion occurring in the external world from that ...
Reawakening Dormant Nerve Cells: Groundbreaking Neurotechnology Restores Motor Function in SMA
A new electrical stimulation therapy for spinal muscle atrophy (SMA) has shown promise in reactivating motor neurons and ...
Yahoo News Canada15d
Boy, 13, diagnosed with motor neurone disease
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 ...
Nenagh Guardian15d
Nenagh dance supports motor neurone charity
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 ...
BBC16d
Motor neurone disease
Fundraiser Sam Perkins, who raised thousands of pounds to fund research into motor neurone disease (MND), has died. The sportsman raised hundreds of thousands of pounds after being diagnosed with ...
EurekAlert!16d
Spinal cord stimulation restores neural function, targets key feature of progressive neurodegenerative disease
Boosting communication between the spinal nerves and the muscles using the spinal cord stimulation reverses spinal muscle ...
BMJ18d
Hypermetabolism in motor neurone disease is associated with a greater functional decline but not weight loss
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 ...
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2 adults, 3 children escape Canton arson
STARK COUNTY, Ohio (WOIO) - A 41-year-old woman is in custody after Canton firefighters said she started a fire inside her own home. Firefighters responded to the two-story home in the 700 block ...
verywellhealth23d
Types of Neurons and Their Function
Neurons are cells in the body that are responsible for transmitting electrical signals through the nervous system. Different types of neurons affect the ability to move, which begins as an impulse, or ...
PMLiVE24d
The silent treatment – researching gene silencing for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and motor neurone disease
The trials have recently been extended after initial success. Trials are also now underway for gene silencing ASOs that could treat Parkinson’s and motor neurone disease. ASOs have shown to have ...
Men's Health24d
How AFL legend Neale Daniher took on a ‘beast of a disease’
The doc mentions this disease you’ve vaguely heard of, don’t know much about. Motor Neurone Disease – MND, the doc calls it. Every time he mentions it, a look creeps across his face and he’s quick to ...