News tagged with muscle movement
Researchers isolate first 'neuroprotective' gene in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
May 12, 2009 |
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A genetic variant that substantially improves survival of individuals with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, has been indentified by a consortium of researchers led by John Landers, ...
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Grouping muscles to make controlling limbs easier
Apr 20, 2009 |
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With more than 30 muscles in your arm, controlling movement -- whether it's grasping a glass or throwing a baseball -- is a complex task that potentially takes into account thousands of variables.
How embryo movement stimulates joint formation
May 18, 2009 |
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A new study uncovers a molecular mechanism that explains why joints fail to develop in embryos with paralyzed limbs. The research, published by Cell Press in the May issue of the journal Developmental Cell, answers a long ...
Mighty mice: Treatment targeted to muscle improves motor neuron disease
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 12, 2009 |
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New research with transgenic mice reveals that a therapy directed at the muscle significantly improves disease symptoms of a genetic disorder characterized by destruction of the neurons that control movement. The study, published ...
Decreased activity of basal ganglia is the main cause of abnormal muscle constrictions in dystonia
Dec 17, 2008 |
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Dystonia is a neurological disorder characterized by involuntary abnormal muscle constrictions. More than 300,000 people in North America are affected, but the mechanism of abnormal muscle constrictions has not been well ...
Muscle atrophy through thick but not thin
Jun 08, 2009 |
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During desperate times, such as fasting, or muscle wasting that afflicts cancer or AIDS patients, the body cannibalizes itself, atrophying and breaking down skeletal muscle proteins to liberate amino acids. In a new study ...
The bionic arm is the future of prosthetics, and it's here today
Oct 07, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Alberta Health Services' Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital is pioneering a major advancement in upper-limb amputation surgery and rehabilitation with the Canadian debut of the Targeted Muscle Reinnervation ...
U of T research finds glycine could be key to REM Sleep Behavior Disorder
Mar 27, 2008 |
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There is new promise on the horizon for those who suffer from REM Sleep Behaviour Disorder (RBD) according to researchers at the University of Toronto.
Key finding in rare muscle disease
Jan 17, 2007 |
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The finding is in the current issue of Annals of Neurology, a leading international neurology journal, in work led by Professor Nigel Laing and Dr Kristen Nowak of the Laboratory for Molecular Genetics at the Western Austra ...
Robotic exoskeleton replaces muscle work
Feb 08, 2007 |
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A robotic exoskeleton controlled by the wearer's own nervous system could help users regain limb function, which is encouraging news for people with partial nervous system impairment, say University of Michigan researchers.
Smile as you read this: Language that puts you in touch with your bodily feelings
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 07, 2009 |
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Louis Armstrong sang, "When you're smilin', the whole world smiles with you." Romantics everywhere may be surprised to learn that psychological research has proven this sentiment to be true — merely seeing a smile (or a frown, ...
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