Researchers found that exercise promotes neuron growth through both biochemical signals (myokines) and physical stretching.

Exercise can have benefits at the level of neurons, through chemical and mechanical effects, MIT researchers find. The discovery could inform exercise-related therapies for repairing damaged and ...

Scientists are working on a way to restore the production of a protein that is essential for communication in the brain and ...

As the team further acknowledged in their newly released paper, while such results indicate a potential role for muscle contraction in mediating motor neuron growth, “the difficulty of deconvolving ...

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is the most common form of MND and there is currently no cure for the condition which ...

New research shows that the neural circuit responsible for stabilising gaze can develop in the absence of motor neurons, contrary to a long-standing model in the field.

But sheriff Alastair Carmichael is slowly being robbed of his ability to speak after being diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease ... with the progressive muscle wasting disease, which claimed ...

Motor Neurone Disease is a rapidly progressing neurological disease affecting the brain and spinal cord, stripping ...

A FORMER Premier League star battling motor neurone disease now has to eat through a tube after a “life-changing” procedure.

Researchers have uncovered a mechanism that may trigger ALS’s earliest stages, identifying proteins that mislocalize, causing ...