Daily electrical stimulation of certain nerves in the spinal cord appeared to help three people with spinal muscular atrophy ...

The fundraising social dance organised by Mary Lynch in Nenagh last November raised a very impressive total of €4,120 for the Irish Motor Neurone Disease Association. This was the fifth staging of the ...

Spinal muscle atrophy or SMA is a genetic disease that gradually destroys motor neurons ... Stimulating the spinal cord with low levels of electricity has long been used to treat chronic pain ...

“Lack of SMN leads to selective death of spinal motoneurons and progressive muscle atrophy,” the team continued. While there is no cure for SMA ... the motor neurons and engaging the ...

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 ...

Bulbar muscles, those of the face and throat, are affected in spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), and researchers in Germany found that young children with SMA cannot open their mouths as well as ...

researchers reported what they called the first evidence that a spine-stimulating implant already being tested for paralysis might also aid neurodegenerative diseases like spinal muscle atrophy ...

Australia Objectives Motor Neurone Disease (MND) is fatal neurological disease. Hypermetabolism (increased resting energy expenditure (REE)) and loss of body weight occur in MND. We aimed to determine ...

Scholar Rock is asking the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to approve apitegromab, its experimental add-on therapy designed to boost motor function in people with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA ...

Pain is an example of an important sensory neuron ... movements. Motor neurons carry impulses away from the central nervous system (made up of the brain and spinal cord) and control the movement of ...

The trials have recently been extended after initial success. Trials are also now underway for gene silencing ASOs that could treat Parkinson’s and motor neurone disease. ASOs have shown to have ...

The doc mentions this disease you’ve vaguely heard of, don’t know much about. Motor Neurone Disease – MND, the doc calls it. Every time he mentions it, a look creeps across his face and he’s quick to ...