Boosting communication between the spinal nerves and the muscles using the spinal cord stimulation reverses spinal muscle atrophy (SMA) progression and could be applied to other motoneuron diseases, ...

Scratching an itchy rash worsens inflammation by triggering pain-sensing neurons and activating mast cells, creating a ...

A new drug-free, minimally invasive intervention targets the root cause of progressive loss of neural function in spinal muscle atrophy (SMA), an inherited neuromuscular disease.

Researchers at FORTH have developed a new type of artificial neural network (ANN) that incorporates features of biological ...

Three patients with spinal muscular atrophy had improved muscle strength and could walk farther after a month of daily spinal ...

Electrical stimulation of the spinal cord strengthened the muscles of three people with spinal muscular atrophy, a rare motor neuron disease.

A new non-opioid painkiller, suzetrigine, has just been approved by the US drug regulator, the FDA. It is the first ...

Neurons in the brains of mice tell them to stop eating when they’ve had enough food – and since people probably have the same ...

Columbia scientists have found specialized neurons in the brains of mice that order the animals to stop eating. Though many feeding circuits in the brain are known to play a role in monitoring food ...

Columbia scientists have found specialized neurons in the brains of mice that order the animals to stop eating. The findings ...

As a healthcare professional, I often hear about new supplements that patients come across in their search for relief from ...