For instance, when you touch something hot, your sensory nerves send a message to your brain telling you, ‘This is hot!’ But it’s the motor nerves that take action—like pulling your hand away.

The cerebral cortex processes sensory information via a complex network of neural connections. How are these signals ...

A new study by UT Health San Antonio and Stanford University scientists brings us closer to understanding how the body detects different sensations such as pain, itch and touch.

Motor neurons are nerve cells located in the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nerves. The neurons throughout the pathway travel from the motor areas of the brain to the muscles telling your ...

The occupation at higher risk of developing motor neurone disease Unlike many chronic conditions linked to lifestyle, where being ‘unhealthy’ increases risk, MND doesn’t follow the usual rules ...

Two genes, SMN1 and SMN2, are involved in production of survival motor neuron protein. SMN1 does most of the work to produce the full-length protein and is vital to motor neuron survival and function.

They then examined how the TDP-43 in specific motor neurons initiates disease progression to other motor-related neurons. Their study was published in Acta Neuropathologica on Aug 9, 2023.

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