Areflexic, or flaccid, bladder and bowels occur when the spinal cord injury is low enough to damage the cauda equina and alpha motor neurons. It also occurs in all spinal cord injury patients during ...

Footballer Ezekiel Otuoma and his wife Rachael Otuoma. Otuoma died after a long battle with Motor Neurone Disease (MND). [File, Standard] Former AFC Leopards winger Ezekiel Otuoma passed away at the ...

Developing motor neurons from stem cells taken directly from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patients offers new hope for better understanding and treatment of the fatal neurodegenerative disorder ...

AI-generated voice clones are bringing back the voices of people with MND, allowing some to communicate, connect, and even perform comedy routines. Jules Rodriguez lost his voice in October of last ...

Primary lateral sclerosis (PLS) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) are neurodegenerative diseases. PLS typically develops slowly, while ALS rapidly affects mobility and can become fatal.

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a degenerative neurological disorder that involves the death of nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord. This, over time, leads to the brain losing its ability ...

Progressive muscular atrophy (PMA) is a rare adult-onset motor neuron disease. Although there’s no cure, treatments may slow down nerve damage and reduce symptoms. Progressive muscular atrophy (PMA) ...

Stay up to date on the latest science with Brush Up Summaries. Nerve cells, or neurons, are the basic functional units of the nervous system. Multiple interconnected neurons form a neural circuit and ...

Dysarthria is a speech disorder caused by a lack of muscle control that happens when the parts of the brain that control speaking are damaged. It may also be caused by problems that do not involve the ...