Motor neuron disease (MND) is a devastating condition that causes progressive muscle weakness by damaging the motor neurons, the nerve cells that connect the brain to muscles. These neurons allow ...

What Is Multifocal Motor Neuropathy? Multifocal motor neuropathy (MMN) is a rare disease that causes slowly worsening muscle weakness, mainly in your hands, arms, and legs.

Motor neuron articles from across Nature Portfolio Motor neurons project from the central nervous system to innervate muscle cells to either directly or indirectly control their activity. Contact ...

Motor neurons, shown with their axons (nerve fibers) labeled in green, are seen growing on a spinal cord organ-chip developed by Cedars-Sinai. Credit: Svendsen Lab.

In a study published in Cell on July 10, researchers reported the first comprehensive study of whole-brain projectomes of the ...

New research shows a single neuron in fruit flies can trigger two distinct behaviors in response to the same smell.

Scientists have discovered that a protein once thought to be just a cellular "courier" actually helps plants survive drought. This motor protein, myosin XI, plays a critical role in helping leaves ...

AI at light speed: How glass fibers could replace silicon brains Date: June 20, 2025 Source: Tampere University Summary: Imagine supercomputers that think with light instead of electricity. That s ...

Rats exhibit significant recovery of locomotor function following incomplete spinal cord injuries, albeit with altered gait expression and reduced speed and stepping frequency. These changes likely ...

The authors proposed two hypotheses: first, that methamphetamine induces neuroinflammation, and second, that it alters neuronal stem cell differentiation. These are valuable hypotheses, and the ...

Motor neuron disease articles from across Nature Portfolio Motor neuron disease usually refers to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, but it can also refer to other kind of neurodegenerative disease ...