New research suggests that electrical spinal cord stimulation could improve muscle function for patients who have spinal ...

Movement is a complex process governed by a network of neuronal circuits spread across multiple regions of the nervous system ...

Motor neurone disease (MND ... which run from the spinal cord to the brain, controlling muscle movement. The most famous sufferer was probably the late Prof Stephen Hawking, who was a highly ...

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

MPs and campaigners say that people suffering from Motor Neurone Disease or Parkinson’s should have greater access to an ...

Living with a chronic illness in the family is hard. It's even harder if you know that the person you love will get worse and won't recover from their condition. Sadly, it can happen to any family ...

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 ...

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, ...

A Boston-area biopharmaceutical firm has submitted a biologics license application to the FDA for its investigational, fully ...