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 ...

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

Studies on humans have generally been less definitive than those done on animals because it is substantially more difficult to record the activity of a single neuron in human brains. However ...

Whether these changes also occur in other forms of motor neuron disease (MND) is not well studied. We therefore systemically screened a large cohort of patients with primary lateral sclerosis (PLS) ...

1 MRC Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases, UCL Institute of Neurology, London, UK 2 The Graham Watts Laboratories for Research into Motor Neuron Disease, Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience and ...

Between the axon of a transmitting neuron and the dendrite of a receiving neuron is a gap called the synapse—the site at which signals are passed between the brain cells. The nervous system ...

A breakthrough study sheds new light on how brain cells relay critical information from their extremities to their nucleus, leading to the activation of genes essential for learning and memory.

A recent study published in the journal Brain has revealed new insights into the neurological underpinnings of levodopa-induced dyskinesia, a common and debilitating complication of Parkinson’s ...

Ongoing work explores how failures of motor neuron and neuromuscular junction development lead to disorders of the ocular motor system, including a common misalignment of the eyes called ...

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Ongoing work explores how failures of motor neuron and neuromuscular junction development lead to disorders of the ocular motor system, including a common misalignment of the eyes called ...