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 ...

Motor neurone disease (MND ... ALS affects both the upper motor neurones that travel from the brain to the spinal cord and the lower motor neurones, which branch out to the various muscle groups ...

Motor neurone disease is a group of diseases that ... known as the "spastic paraplegias", where the malfunction is in the upper part of the spinal cord. Dr Emma Baple, also from the University ...

Motor neurone disease (MND ... twitch in my arm has now slowly progressed into twitching in most of my upper body and now little to no strength in my arms and hands. “The progressive nature ...

Patients do not typically transition to an upper motor neuron bladder or bowels Bladder and bowel anal-rectal sphincter remains flaccid, becomes highly complaint and is characterized by underactivity ...

The copy number of survival motor neuron 1 and survival motor neuron 2 genes was determined with a commercially available multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification kit. Results: Twenty-one ...

Researchers at Nagoya University in Japan have uncovered in anglerfish a specialized motor neuron population for the first ...

Researchers have uncovered in anglerfish a specialized motor neuron population for the first dorsal fin used for 'fishing'. When the first dorsal fin evolved from a swimming and buoyancy aid to a ...