More than two-thirds of stroke survivors have upper extremity paresis (ie, motor impairment affecting the arms and hands),1 and this impairment is typically treated with some amount of rehabilitation ...

Barry Jones' life was thrown into turmoil when he was told he has motor neurone disease (MND), and roughly two years left to live. The pipe fitter from Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, who tied the ...

Kathleen Anderson died aged 39 in 2011, leaving behind her three young boys. She was diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease when she was 36 and her son, Calum Anderson, remembers how her sore legs ...

Experts warn that difficulty swallowing, producing excess saliva or even drooling could be a sign of motor neurone disease (MND). The progressive condition affects the brain and nerves that ...

People who walked, ran, swam and cycled in memory of former Scottish rugby international Doddie Weir have raised more than £1 million for motor neurone disease (MND) research, a charity has announced.

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal disease, characterized by the degeneration of both upper and lower motor neurons ... Excitability is an electrophysiological property of a neuron, ...

In relation to the upper ... limb motor recovery and points towards methodologies that might be used to stratify patients in future restorative clinical trials. In this study, we investigated 30 ...

Enhancing levels of ‘healthy fats’ like omega-3s in the brain could be beneficial in motor neurone disease (MND) finds a new study in fruit flies and brain cells, led by UCL researchers. Previous ...

SMA is a progressive condition that affects motor neurons, the specialized cells that control voluntary muscle movement. It has five subtypes, of which type 1 is considered to be the most severe ...

and capabilities in distinguishing neuron or non-neuron factors in upper motor neuron lesion. A series of new approaches are developed for improving the effectiveness of current clinical used ...