More research is needed to confirm gray matter, the darker tissue found in the brain and spinal cord, “as a potential disease ...

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a rare hereditary neuromuscular disorder in which the spinal cord does not form normally. This inhibits voluntary muscle action, leading to a gradual decrease in ...

One such condition is Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA), a genetic disorder affecting infants and young children, impacting their movement and muscle function. SMA is a genetic disorder of movement ...

A Lincoln doctor who suffered a spinal cord injury now leads a spinal cord injury unit, and tries to be open with his ...

Researchers found spinal disinhibition in people with fibromyalgia, adding new clues about the role of central pain ...

For children with SMA, assistive devices -- walkers, wheelchairs, standers, and more -- are the key to staying active. Learn which ones may help your child.

Back to Healio Topline results from a phase 3 clinical trial showed an investigational gene therapy for young people with spinal muscular atrophy type 2 increased mobility and slowed disease ...

Typically, patients do not attend these meetings, with their family or caregivers representing them, says Unnikrishnan. But, in the case of Maldivian disability activist Mohamed Raishan Ahmed's ...

37 Neurodegenerative DGM atrophy continues to progress throughout ... of the natural history of MS in the brain and spinal cord. Although MRI evaluation is the standard tool for the diagnosis ...

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the cervical spine in the supine position showed segmental myelopathy with cervical spinal cord atrophy of cervical vertebrae C5–C6 in the absence of ...