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 ...

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

These supraspinal structures send information to the spinal cord, which acts as the final relay in translating motor commands into precise muscle actions. Despite years of research, much remains ...

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

Doctors diagnosed Carmen Lopez with spinal muscle atrophy (SMA) at birth, a rare genetic disorder that affects motor neurons ...

Three patients with spinal muscular atrophy had improved muscle strength and could walk farther after a month of daily spinal stimulation.

"To counteract neurodegeneration, we need two things—stop neuron death and restore function ... by transmitting signals from ...

A neurosurgeon and a neuroscientist discover promising new ways to help people with spinal cord injuries walk again ...

Electrical stimulation of the spinal cord strengthened the muscles of three people with spinal muscular atrophy, a rare motor neuron disease.

A toddler was successfully treated for a rare genetic disease, spinal muscular atrophy, after world-first in-womb therapy.

An experimental treatment that stimulates the spinal cord may help people with a paralyzing ... until that time is that this is really a motor neuron disease, and if you fix the motor neurons ...