New neurons in your brain? A landmark study from Karolinska Institutet finds adults keep forming brain cells into the old age ...

A team of Indian American scientists led by Pallavi Gopal are working to learn more about the dynamics of a protein to help ...

Symptoms of motor neuron degeneration could start at as early as 3 months of age and lead to muscle atrophy, paralysis and death, often before the child's second birthday.

Early signs of motor neuron disease include weakness and slurred speech. Motor neurons are nerve cells that send electrical output signals to the muscles, affecting the muscles’ ability to function.

In contrast, the induction of TDP-43 in spinal motor neurons did not disseminate to other cortical or spinal neurons, but rather triggered widespread cell death among the motor neurons and their ...

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center developmental biologist Cecilia Moens, PhD recently received a prestigious Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award. The new grant will allow Moens to better understand the ...

They are the “input” part of the cell. Axon — this long projection carries information from the soma and sends it off to other cells. This is the “output” part of the cell.

ALS is a debilitating neurodegenerative disease with poor outcomes, but a pair of new studies may point towards a more optimistic future. In tests in human cells and live mice, scientists ...

They demonstrated the usefulness of the atlas by looking closely at motor neurons, which provide voluntary movement and motor control. Motor neurons, which degenerate and die in ALS, are large cells ...

Two genes, SMN1 and SMN2, are involved in production of survival motor neuron protein. SMN1 does most of the work to produce the full-length protein and is vital to motor neuron survival and function.

It’s not a fitness myth: There really is such a thing as muscle memory, although it may not mean exactly what you think it does. Although people colloquially refer to never forgetting how to ...

A University of Exeter team led by Professor Andrew Crosby and Dr Emma Baple has a long history of research in motor neurone degenerative diseases. The team developed a hypothesis to explain a common ...