Contact between a motor neuron and muscle cell is usually via a specialized synapse called a neuromuscular junction.

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 ...

Motor neurone disease is an uncommon condition that mainly affects people in their 60s and 70s. The family of a boy living with motor neurone disease have said it was a "massive shock" for him to ...

GB News Recalling the horrific ordeal, Sefton-Williams told the People's Channel: "I thought it might be Parkinson's, but I thought, please don't let it be Motor Neurone Disease, and it was. And he ...

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 ...

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The family of a boy living with motor neurone disease have said it was a "massive shock" for him to be diagnosed at the age of 13. Kyle Sieniawski, from Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taf, started to lose ...

The family of a boy living with motor neurone disease have said it was a "massive shock" for him to be diagnosed at the age of 13. Kyle Sieniawski, from Pontypridd, Rhondda Cynon Taf, started to ...

Neurons are cells in the body that are responsible for transmitting electrical signals through the nervous system. Different types of neurons affect the ability to move, which begins as an impulse, or ...

1994; Huang et al., 2005). In humans, such effects are often revealed with physiological outcome measures, such as Motor-Evoked Potentials (MEPs; Rothwell et al., 1999). For example, the commonly used ...

A man whose life has been turned upside down by a devastating diagnosis wants to educate people on how isolating living with motor neurone disease (MND) can be. Guy Williams, from Nottingham ...