Oral function should be measured routinely to determine individual bulbar involvement stages in spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) ...

The incidence of ALS is highest among whites, according to the scientific literature. Among people with African ancestry, ...

BOSTON, October 22, 2024--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nido Biosciences (Nido Bio), a clinical stage company developing precision medicines for debilitating neurological diseases, announced today that the ...

About Spinal and Bulbar Muscular Atrophy (SBMA) and NIDO-361 SBMA, also known as Kennedy’s disease, is a rare inherited X-linked neuromuscular disorder caused by a genetic mutation of the androgen ...

Spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy (SBMA) is a hereditary neuromuscular disorder caused by CAG trinucleotide expansion in the gene encoding the androgen receptor (AR). In the central nervous system, ...

OBJECTIVES to find out if conventional and automatic needle EMG of the tongue can be helpful in the diagnosis and differentiation of limb and bulbar onset amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. METHODS Motor ...

The pharmaceutical industry continues to be a hotbed of innovation, with activity driven by the evolution of new treatment paradigms, ...

The mutations were mapped by a group at the Federal University of São Paulo and collaborators in an analysis of mitochondrial genomes. Thirteen increase the risk of ALS and 38 are protective.

Specifically, the system consistently evaluated key myasthenia gravis domains, including ocular, bulbar, respiratory, and ...

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disorder in which neurons in the central nervous system that help ...

Oral functions were found to be diminished in adults with spinal muscular atrophy in three out of five tests in a new study.

The authors were supported in part by the National Institutes of Health Center core grant (P30EY014801), Research to Prevent Blindness Medical Student Fellowship, Department of Defence grant ...