Upper motor neuron lesions can result in muscle weakness, muscle wasting, overreactive reflexes, spasms, and other issues that can impair mobility.

Lower motor neurons are in your brain stem and spinal cord. When they get a signal from the upper motor neurons, they send another signal to your muscles to make them contract. Lesions are areas ...

Patients do not typically transition to an upper motor neuron bladder or bowels Bladder and bowel anal-rectal sphincter remains flaccid, becomes highly complaint and is characterized by underactivity ...

Atrophy and fasciculations are expected with lower motor-neuron lesions, but given the recent onset of her symptoms, these may not have developed yet.

Omega-3 fats, found in foods like oily fish, nuts and seeds, could play a crucial role in protecting individuals from motor neurone disease (MND) and a certain type of dementia, according to ...

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In the early stages electrodiagnostic testing may be of considerable assistance in the diagnosis of an associated lower-motor-neuron lesion.