motor neurons

The discovery of gene variants in cases of hereditary spastic dysplasia could provide a diagnosis to affected families where no genetic cause could be found before.

Acute stress makes immune cells migrate immediately to the bone marrow, which prepares the body for injury at the expense of increasing infectious disease susceptibility.

The patient, who has ALS, is able to communicate in complete sentences by deliberately altering his brain’s activity.

Manipulating the activity of neurons active during training had similar effects on the mice’s behavior.

A gene helps motor neurons successfully venture out from the spinal cord to muscles during mouse development.

By stifling autophagy in the motor neurons of a mouse model of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), scientists stem later-stage disease progression.