An infant with a fatal genetic disease has survived past the age of 2 with no signs of the condition, thanks to treatment ...

A baby diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) was successfully treated in the womb for the first time. Now over two ...

The vagus nerve is so named because it “wanders” like a vagabond, sending out sensory fibers from your brainstem to your ...

Problems with sleep likely develop before motor symptoms in people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a new study shows.

Motor neurons in the different cranial motor nuclei extend axons, forming the cranial nerves, to innervate muscles and parasympathetic ganglia in the head and neck. The specification of the ...

A new electrical stimulation therapy for spinal muscle atrophy (SMA) has shown promise in reactivating motor neurons and ...

Messages or signals from nerve cells in the brain’s upper motor neurons are typically transmitted to nerve cells in the brainstem and spinal cord (lower motor neurons), which then send signals ...

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh say a new minimally invasive intervention can target the root cause of neural ...

The nervous system consists of the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord) and the peripheral nervous system (motor nerves, sensory nerves, cranial and spinal nerves, autonomic ganglia ...

An intervention, which involves electrical stimulation of the sensory spinal nerves, can gradually reawaken functionally silent motor neurons in the spinal cord and improve leg muscle strength and ...