University of Wollongong (UOW) scientists have developed a breakthrough therapy that clears toxic proteins from nerve cells—a discovery that advances the work of the late Professor Justin Yerbury and ...

A new medicine, discovered by scientists, protects nerve cells damaged by motor neurone disease (MND), offering hope of substantially slowing the progression of "one of the cruellest diseases".

Scanning MRI of a person’s tongue may help in the early detection and ongoing monitoring of Motor Neurone Disease (MND), a neurodegenerative disease, according to a study. Researchers from the ...

Motor neuron diseases, such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP), share physical similarities but have been largely viewed as genetically distinct. However, ...

Former England captain Lewis Moody has been touched by the "outpouring of love and support" which followed his motor neurone disease diagnosis. The 2003 World Cup winner revealed last month he had the ...

A new medicine, discovered by scientists, protects nerve cells damaged by motor neurone disease (MND), offering hope of substantially slowing the progression of "one of the cruellest diseases".

The authors have performed a potentially valuable new kind of analysis in connectomics, mapping to an interesting developmental problem of synaptic input to sensory neurons. While the analysis itself ...

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a rare motor neuron disorder. Currently, there is no cure for ALS and no treatment to stop or keep the disease from worsening over time. ALS mainly involves ...

Motor neurons project from the central nervous system to innervate muscle cells to either directly or indirectly control their activity. Contact between a motor neuron and muscle cell is usually via a ...

White matter gets its color from myelin, a fatty substance that insulates nerve fibers (axons). This insulation speeds up the ...

Jonathan Dimbleby: ‘MND is a death sentence. My brother behaved with fortitude but he was frightened’ The broadcaster reflects on younger brother Nicholas’s motor neurone disease, assisted dying and ...