A reflex action is a rapid automatic response to a stimulus (anything an organism can detect). Reflex actions are involuntary and do not necessarily involve the brain. Reflex actions protect the ...

Hyperrelexic, overactive or spastic bladder or bowels occur with spinal cord injury at or above T12. The primary characteristic of this type of injury is increased organ spasms. The UMN bladder may ...

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 ...

Motor neurone disease (MND) is a group of diseases with multiple causes, rather than a single disease with a single target. This is likely to have major implications for potential MND therapies. We ...

Motor Neurone Disease is an uncommon condition that affects the brain and nerves and causes weakness that gets worse over time. Treatment for motor neurone disease aims to ease the symptoms as ...

A scientist who was keen to get fit before her 60th birthday has claimed that a popular diet may have triggered motor neurone disease (MND). Dr Vivienne Cox, a former microbiologist for top ...

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Scientists have developed a new test for a biomarker in brain tissue that could detect people who will go on to develop motor neuron disease (MND) before they show symptoms. The team, led by Dr ...

The findings have been made in a study led by the University of Aberdeen and could provide a breakthrough in treating motor neurone disease Drugs that switch on vitamin A in the body may also help ...