Simple urine test for motor neurone disease
A researcher at Flinders University has developed a simple urine test that gives a quantitative measure of the severity of motor neurone disease.
Sep 21, 2016
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A researcher at Flinders University has developed a simple urine test that gives a quantitative measure of the severity of motor neurone disease.
Sep 21, 2016
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The motor cortex controls the voluntary movement of muscles. It remains largely unclear why its electrical or magnetic stimulation can alleviate therapy-resistant chronic pain—albeit unreliably. An interdisciplinary research ...
Dec 27, 2022
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Emory researchers are conducting a prospective clinical study to examine the possibility of diagnosing Parkinson's disease (PD) before motor symptoms occur. The study is an arm of the Parkinson's Progression Markers Initiative ...
Jul 19, 2013
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Researchers have linked newly discovered gene mutations to some cases of the progressive fatal neurological disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. Shedding light on how ALS destroys ...
Jul 15, 2012
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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease) is a progressive disorder that devastates motor nerve cells. People diagnosed with ALS slowly lose the ability to control muscle movement, and are ultimately unable ...
Aug 3, 2016
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New research suggests that an already-approved drug could dramatically reduce the debilitating impact of strokes, which affect nearly a million Americans every year.
Feb 4, 2015
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Patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, lose muscle control as nerve cells or neurons in the brain and spinal cord degenerate and can no longer send signals to muscles. Previous ...
May 28, 2020
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Currently, there is no cure for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Things could soon change, however. Researchers at FAU and the University of California San Diego (UCSD) have identified a protein that already displays ...
Jul 19, 2022
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Scientists have solved a longstanding mystery of the central nervous system, showing how a key protein gets to the right spot to launch electrical impulses that enable communication of nerve signals to and from the brain.
Jan 9, 2014
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Support cells in the nervous system help protect motor neurons in the early-stages of sporadic motor neuron disease, according to new research from the Crick and UCL.
Feb 10, 2020
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