A new electrical stimulation therapy for spinal muscle atrophy (SMA) has shown promise in reactivating motor neurons and ...

Animals, including humans, rely on multiple senses to navigate their environments and make decisions. This integration of ...

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, ...

Three people with a muscle-destroying disease destined to worsen got a little stronger when an implanted device zapped their ...

Recognizing that emergency situations can overwhelm people with special needs, Murray and fellow Friends of Unified Sports members have made and distributed hundreds of sensory kits to local ...

In a new study, scientists at the Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology (LIN) and University Hospital Magdeburg demonstrated ...

4 Types of Memory: Sensory, Short-Term, Working & Long-Term Neurons Specialized cells that send messages between different parts of the brain, and from the brain to the muscles and organs of the body.

Diseases spread through saliva include mononucleosis, strep throat, rotavirus, and even tooth decay. Many diseases can be spread through saliva alone, including viral and bacterial infections. Our ...

While the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 1 in 36 ... But one South Jersey Hospital has created a sensory-friendly environment that will open this spring for adults and kids ...

High blood pressure affects multiple organs. Not only can hypertension add stress to the heart and damage arteries, leading to heart disease, but it also can cause strokes and kidney disease as ...

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a group of intestinal disorders that cause prolonged inflammation of the digestive tract. It can include ulcerative colitis (UC) or Crohn’s disease.