In an aging society, one of the most important and urgent tasks of scientific research is to counteract the decline in motor function and muscle weakness that accompanies the aging process. A research ...

A research group conducted experiments using aged mice to demonstrate that muscle denervation at the neuromuscular junction (NMJ, *1) could be appreciably offset by an NMJ formation-enhancing ...

Incomplete spinal cord injuries disrupt motor unit coordination. The nervous system struggles to sync muscles at low effort and overcompensates with rigid signals at high effort.

UCF researchers have uncovered evidence that some movement-related symptoms of Alzheimer's disease may originate outside the brain, which could change how the disease is diagnosed and treated in the ...

Does Alzheimer’s start in the muscles? Research reveals that motor neuron mutations disrupt the neuromuscular junction independent of the brain.

What Is the Psoas Muscle? The psoas (pronounced so-ezz) muscles are two large muscles in your lower back. You have one on either side of your spine. They're the main muscular connection between your ...

Scientists have traced connectivity between neurons to identify how the brain communicates with the spinal cord. A new brain map visualizes the connections between the brain and spinal cord at the ...

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, attacks nerve cells known as motor neurons in the brain and spinal cord, gradually leading to paralysis. The loss of function of an important gene, C9orf72, may ...

Injury to the spinal cord triggers a cascade of biological events that unfold within seconds and that proceed for months or even years. The events affect three major bodily systems: the nervous system ...