Hundreds of children with a rare and severe form of epilepsy are hoping a new drug being rolled out on the NHS may provide a ...

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 ...

The newly granted patent covers Neurizon’s proprietary method of using NUZ-001 in effective doses to treat mTOR pathway-related diseases, including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis/motor neuron ...

Contact between a motor neuron and muscle cell is usually via a specialized synapse called a neuromuscular junction. Improved muscle function, strength and fatigue measures were observed after ...

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 ...

Upper motor neuron-dominant ALS (UMND ALS) is recognized to have early onset and good prognosis, but may have a rapid decline in motor function due to gait instability in the early stage. We ...

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 ...

Pain is an example of an important sensory neuron. When you feel pain from a hot pan ... These neurons coordinate muscle activity. Motor neurons can be subdivided into lower motor neurons and upper ...