Each year, according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), millions of people in the U.S. are affected by spinal cord ...

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is characterized by motor symptoms such as bradykinesia, rigidity and tremor that are caused by the progressive loss of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra (Lang & ...

Non-static Neuron identity emerges from the complementary synaptic transcriptional ... (2018) showed evidence of differences between the axonal transcriptome and the soma transcriptome from Spinal ...

The laboratory of Ege Kavalali, professor and chair of the Department of Pharmacology, published a paper in Nature ...

But the voices represent a vast improvement on previous communication technologies and are already improving the lives of people with motor neuron diseases, says Richard Cave, a speech and ...

SMA is a progressive condition that affects motor neurons, the specialized cells that control voluntary muscle movement. It has five subtypes, of which type 1 is considered to be the most severe ...

A two-and-a-half-year-old girl shows no signs of a rare genetic disorder, after becoming the first person to be treated for the motor-neuron condition while in the womb. The child’s mother took ...

Synapse connected financial technology firms with banks, helping startups that marketed flashy savings apps find a place to park their digital customers’ funds. The middleman managed billions of ...

Converting one type of cell to another - for example, a skin cell to a neuron - can be done through a process that requires the skin cell to be induced into a "pluripotent" stem cell, then ...

Motor neuron disease usually refers to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, but it can also refer to other kind of neurodegenerative disease that affect the motor neurons, such as progressive primary ...