"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 ...

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 ...

He can access ... Enhancing levels of "healthy fats" like omega-3s in the brain could be beneficial in motor neuron disease (MND) finds a new study in fruit flies and brain cells, led by UCL ...

Actor Eric Dane has revealed he has been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a form of motor neurone disease. The US actor, who is best known for his role as doctor Mark Sloan on ...

Prof Malaspina, who is also the clinical academic lead at UCL’s Motor Neuron Disease Centre, explains that the first signs of ALS are normally muscle weakness or pain, twitching or speech ...