Think your cerebellum only coordinates fluid movements? New 2026 research reveals how your "little brain" also creates the ...

A farmer from Dorset has raised more than £7,000 for the Motor Neurone Disease Association charity by driving his ...

For Sue Rogers, denial wasn’t a weakness, it was a way to keep living without the weight of what the future had in store.

How do electrical signals become "about" something? Through purely physical processes, neural networks transform activity ...

The scientist Stephen Hawking lived with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), the most common type of motor neurone disease, for 55 years. He was one of the longest-surviving people with the condition ...

An initiative by a UK-based charity, supported by technology companies and universities, has developed an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered digital twin that allows people with communications ...

Coronation Street star Lynne Verrall has died aged 76. The actress - who had a long-spanning career across theatre and TV - starred as Geraldine Spellman on Coronation Street from 2017 - 2018. Verrall ...

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and other motor neuron diseases (MNDs) are major global causes of death. However, their global incidence, mortality, and disability-adjusted life years remain ...

A new generation of laboratories orbiting the Earth in space could offer hope for motor neurone disease (MND) sufferers, with scientists increasingly optimistic they could be the key to unlocking a ...

From left: Joost van der Westhuizen, Ed Slater, Doddie Weir and Lewis Moody – all rugby players diagnosed with MND Photos: Getty Images; design: Demetrius Robinson As motor neurone disease started to ...

When Basic Books Group president and publisher Lara Heimert told her mom that she was going to work at the Hachette division's flagship imprint, back in 2005, she was elated. "My mother said, Oh, they ...

Motor neurons are some of the largest cells in the human body. In particular, upper neurons—extending from the cerebral cortex to the brain stem or spinal cord—average 60μm in diameter. 3,4 These ...