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

Funding from FightMND enables Professor Heath Ecroyd and team to continue cutting-edge research Professor Heath Ecroyd and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Today the victim of motor neurone disease, he hasn't the strength to open a packet of crisps. Here he tells how his life has changed beyond recognition in less than a year. Eight months ago I ...

But sheriff Alastair Carmichael is slowly being robbed of his ability to speak after being diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease ... him to have conversations in real time and he is even practicing ...

Motor neurone disease is a rare condition of the nervous system that leads to loss of muscle control. The disease leads to progressive weakness, muscle wastage and eventually disability.

An Australian researcher who wants to calm “overexcited” nerve cells to treat motor neurone disease is the first recipient of ...

Raman is the senior author of the team’s paper in Advanced Healthcare Materials, titled “Actuating Extracellular Matrices Decouple the Mechanical and Biochemical Effects of Muscle Contraction on Motor ...

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

Drugs that "switch on" vitamin A in the body may also help stave off conditions such as motor neuron disease (MND). The largest-ever trial of a psychological intervention for patients with motor ...