News tagged with motor performance

Transplanted neural stem cells treat ALS in mouse model

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, is untreatable and fatal. Nerve cells in the spinal cord die, eventually taking away a person's ability to move or even breathe. A ...

Medical research Dec 19, 2012 | 5 / 5 (4) | 0 |

New understanding of nerve damage caused by spinal cord injury could improve treatment design

More than half of traumatic spinal cord injuries (SCI) in humans are cervical lesions, resulting in chronic loss of limb function. A better understanding of the link between the neurologic damage caused by ...

Neuroscience Jan 03, 2013 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0