Rugby league player Jai Arrow's recently announced diagnosis of motor neuron disease has again brought this devastating ...

If you have upper motor neuron lesions, you have damage to certain nerve cells that help you move. Medicines and therapy can help control symptoms like muscle spasms and help you walk and talk more ...

AT MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM. OUR SERA CONGI IS LIVE IN CAMBRIDGE HEARING FROM ONE OF THE DOCTORS WHO TREATED HIM. SARA. ERICA. THE DOCTOR WITH MASS. GENERAL BRIGHAM IS GRATEFUL TO ERIC DANE FOR BEING SO ...

The test was developed by researchers at the US-based not-for-profit Brain Chemistry Labs, who analysed 788 blood samples – roughly half from patients with the disease and half from people without it.

A drug typically used to treat enlarged prostates and high blood pressure has shown promise as a potential new therapy for motor neuron disease (MND) -- also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ...

A pioneering study published in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences by researchers at Durham University has revealed promising results for a new treatment targeting motor neurone disease ...

Brains are the most complex systems in the universe, but their basic building blocks are surprisingly simple — the complexity arises from billions of neurons, axons and synapses working together.

Our bodies’ nerve cells are important for transmitting electrical and chemical information between different parts of the brain and between the brain and other parts of the nervous system. One of the ...