New research is revealing how specialized neurons give our brains an edge artificial intelligence can only dream of ...

"Moreover, the duration of follow-up is among the longest reported for a lentiviral vector-based gene therapy; 13 patients ...

Motor improvements in SMA adults treated with Spinraza paralleled a boost in electrical impulses along nerves that supply ...

Between 1991 and 2019, 16 people – almost a tenth of the area's 200-strong population – were diagnosed with amyotrophic ...

A groundbreaking study used a brain-machine interface to explore how intentions, actions, and their outcomes are temporally ...

Findings challenge the idea that neurons follow a single learning strategy and offer a new perspective on how the brain learns and adapts behavior.

Shedding light on how the brain fine-tunes its wiring during learning, a new study finds that different dendritic segments of a single neuron follow ...

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A team of researchers from the University of Wollongong (UOW) have discovered that a unique trio of medications could hold ...

Scottish rugby great Kenny Logan has pledged to “keep going” until a cure for motor neurone disease (MND ... Earlier this year, the foundation made its biggest single investment to date when it ...

For, the 52-year-old man has been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a type of motor neurone disease. While Dr Sloan was often able to be the hero, there is no cure for ALS - the ...