Doctors diagnosed Carmen Lopez with spinal muscle atrophy (SMA) at birth, a rare genetic disorder that affects motor neurons ...

A two-and-a-half-year-old girl shows no signs of a rare genetic disorder, after becoming the first person to be treated for ...

A photothermal, nanoparticle-based deep brain stimulation system restored motor skills in mice with Parkinson’s-like disease ...

Researchers led by Zhentao Zhang at Wuhan University, China have discovered a cholesterol metabolite that plays a critical role in the development of Parkinson's disease in mice.

Researchers led by Zhentao Zhang at Wuhan University, China have discovered a cholesterol metabolite that plays a critical ...

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A team of researchers from the Sant Pau Research Institute (IR Sant Pau) has published a study in the Journal of ...

Evrysdi, marketed by Genentech, a Roche company, is a disease-modifying therapy designed to target the genetic root cause of SMA by increasing the production of the missing functional survival motor ...

A new UCLA Health study has discovered in mouse models that genes associated with repairing mismatched DNA are critical in eliciting damages to neurons that are most vulnerable in Huntington's disease ...

Patients begin to lose neurons in specific regions of the brain responsible for movement control, motor skill learning ... no known cure or therapy that alters the course of the disease. The cause of ...

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