which contains instructions for how to make a protein called survival motor neuron (SMN) protein. This protein is critical for motor neurons to make proteins and grow the "wires" that send signals ...

A 'devoted mother' has been diagnosed with motor neurone disease (MND) after her symptoms were initially mistaken for benign muscle twitches caused by stress. Holly Turner, 45, had already lost ...

Lesions of the tegmentum of the midbrain, therefore, frequently produce a combination of lower-motor-neuron paralysis and supranuclear involvement of extraocular muscles. The following syndromes ...