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

A new drug-free, minimally invasive intervention targets the root cause of progressive loss of neural function in spinal ...

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 new drug-free, minimally invasive intervention targets the root cause of progressive loss of neural function in spinal muscle atrophy (SMA), an inherited neuromuscular disease.

In a small human trial in SMA patients neurostimulation sessions improved motoneuron function, reduced fatigue, and improved leg muscle strength and walking.

Nerve cells have amazing strategies to save energy and still perform the most important of their tasks. Researchers from the ...

In 2004, a research group at Peking University First Hospital discovered a mutation in the gene coding for a sodium-channel ...

The connection between the body and the brain has preoccupied philosophers and researchers for thousands of years. A new study at the University of Haifa has now identified a neural circuit that ...

Nerve cells have amazing strategies to save energy ... Silvio Rizzoli, Director of the Department of Neuro- and Sensory Physiology at the University Medical Center Göttingen, spokesperson of ...

The model calculations in the present study show that proteins are therefore preferably synthesized in the branched, tapering ...

Nerve cells have amazing strategies to save energy and still perform the most important of their tasks. Researchers found that the neuronal energy conservation program determines the location and ...

The findings demonstrate that the brain and the immune system collaborate to prepare for future challenges and reveal how they "learn" to activate the immune system based solely on sensory information ...