Speaking, singing, coughing, laughing, yelling, yawning, chewing—we use our jaws for many purposes. Each action requires a ...

Former children's TV star Fiona MacDonald's death just three years after she was diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease has renewed calls for Aussies to watch out for early signs of the ...

Within the human brain, movement is coordinated by a brain region called the striatum, which sends instructions to motor ...

Motor neuron disease usually refers to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, but it can also refer to other kind of neurodegenerative disease that affect the motor neurons, such as progressive primary ...

A molecular biologist has warned of the dangers of the 5:2 fasting diet after developing motor neurone disease. Dr Vivienne Cox, who worked at two leading pharmaceutical companies and co-founded ...

Drugs that increase vitamin A in the body could help stave off deadly motor neurone disease (MND), promising new research has suggested. Scientists in Scotland discovered the medications ...

Among all the primary sensory neurons, those innervating muscle spindles in the jaw-closing muscles are exceptionally located in the brainstem as the mesencephalic trigeminal nucleus (MTN), thereby ...

'I thought my excessive yawning was tirdness - but it was devastating disease' ...

When we sat down in the specialist’s office, he cut to the chase: ‘I’m sorry to say you have motor neurone disease [MND].’ I fell apart, but Corinne sat there silently. She’d suspected ...

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), the most common degenerative motor neuron disease in adults ... it clumps together (aggregates) in the cytoplasm. A new study, led by Prof. Sandrine Da Cruz at the ...

The HOT ROD Power Tour is a week long, multi-city event featuring more than 6,000 vehicles and as many as 100,000 spectators. It’s not a stretch to call the Power Tour the largest traveling car ...