UW–Madison researchers used gene therapy to prevent hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP) in a rat model, introducing a healthy ...

A funding boost of more than £78 million will help UCL scientists working to develop a potential treatment for motor neurone ...

Exercise can have benefits at the level of neurons, through chemical and mechanical effects, MIT researchers find. The discovery could inform exercise-related therapies for repairing damaged and ...

Scientists are working on a way to restore the production of a protein that is essential for communication in the brain and ...

Motor neurone disease (MND ... It causes the degeneration of nerve cells, known as motor neurones, which run from the spinal cord to the brain, controlling muscle movement. The most famous ...

New research from King's College London has revealed a connection between ancient viral DNA embedded in the human genome and the genetic risk for two major diseases that affect the central nervous ...

A funding boost of more than £78 million will help UCL scientists working to develop a potential treatment for motor neurone disease (also known as ...

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is the most common form of MND and there is currently no cure for the condition which ...

The team’s in vitro, cell-based experiments found that in the presence of ... while such results indicate a potential role for muscle contraction in mediating motor neuron growth, “the difficulty of ...

University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers targeting a group of hereditary neurodegenerative diseases have found success ...

University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers targeting a group of hereditary neurodegenerative diseases have found success ...