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Understanding Autoimmune Neuromuscular Diseases: Signs, Causes & Treatment

THURSDAY, Oct. 23, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Autoimmune neuromuscular diseases may sound complex, but understanding them is the first step to getting the right care and support. Conditions such as ...
Medical Xpress

Scanning the tongue to detect and track motor neuron disease

Standard MRI scans of a person's tongue could assist in the early detection and ongoing monitoring of motor neuron disease. Dr. Shaw said this could serve as an early indication of neurodegenerative ...
New York Post

Woman who suffers from motor neuron disease finds her voice after finding old VHS video

An MND sufferer who spoke like a ‘robot’ for years can now use her own voice – thanks to an old VHS clip of her changing her baby’s nappy. Sarah Ezekiel was left without a voice or use of her hands, ...
Cochrane

Gamma aminobutyric acid modulators for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis/motor neuron disease

ALS, which is also known as motor neuron disease (MND), is a condition that affects motor neurons in the brain and spinal cord. A person with ALS gradually loses the ability to control movement. In ...
Medical Xpress

'ALS on a chip' model reveals altered motor neuron signaling

Using stem cells from patients with ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), Cedars-Sinai has created a lifelike model of the mysterious and fatal disease that could help identify a cause of the illness ...
verywellhealth

What’s Causing Your Muscle Twitch and How to Treat It

Muscle twitches, also called fasciculations, are fast, spontaneous contractions of muscle fibers that can be seen on the surface of the skin. Muscle twitches are different from muscle spasms, which ...
SMA

In SMA, Spinraza boosts signals in nerves that supply muscles

Motor improvements in adults with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) treated with Spinraza (nusinersen) paralleled a boost in the strength and duration of electrical impulses along nerves that supply the ...
MIT Technology Review

Motor neuron diseases took their voices. AI is bringing them back.

AI-generated voice clones are bringing back the voices of people with MND, allowing some to communicate, connect, and even perform comedy routines. Jules Rodriguez lost his voice in October of last ...
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Motor Neuron stock illustrations

Close-up of neuron anatomy. motor neuron stock illustrations Motor neuron and muscle cell structure. Neuromuscular junction.... Motor neuron Motor neurone is a cell body is located in the brain, or ...
eLife

Scalable, optically-responsive human neuromuscular junction model reveals convergent mechanisms of synaptic dysfunction in familial ALS

This is an important study describing a neuromuscular junction co-culture system using human cells that the authors use to study the synaptic consequences of ALS mutations. The data supporting the ...
GEN

Base Editing Strategy for Spinal Muscular Atrophy Rescues Patient Fibroblasts, Reverses Mouse Pathology

A new study describes a base editing method for treating spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). This supports early signs that “single-shot” treatments from clinical trials using genome editing technologies ...