Within a nervous system, a neuron, neurone, or nerve cell is an electrically excitable cell that fires electric signals called action potentials across... 78 KB (8,964 words) - 01:36, 29 April 2024 |
ALS (redirect from Motor Neurone Disease) Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as motor neurone disease (MND) or Lou Gehrig's disease in the United States, is a rare but terminal neurodegenerative... 130 KB (14,009 words) - 11:15, 19 April 2024 |
The Motor Neurone Disease Association (MND Association) focuses on improving access to care, research and campaigning for those people living with or... 8 KB (607 words) - 18:54, 16 April 2024 |
Upper motor neuron (redirect from Upper motor neurone) Upper motor neurons (UMNs) is a term introduced by William Gowers in 1886. They are found in the cerebral cortex and brainstem and carry information down... 6 KB (520 words) - 19:47, 5 December 2023 |
Motor neuron diseases (redirect from Motor neurone diseases) Motor neuron diseases or motor neurone diseases (MNDs) are a group of rare neurodegenerative disorders that selectively affect motor neurons, the cells... 21 KB (2,137 words) - 12:30, 23 March 2024 |
Lower motor neuron (redirect from Lower motor neurone) Lower motor neurons (LMNs) are motor neurons located in either the anterior grey column, anterior nerve roots (spinal lower motor neurons) or the cranial... 5 KB (525 words) - 21:24, 1 December 2023 |
Sensory nerve (redirect from Sensory neurone) A sensory nerve, or afferent nerve, is an anatomic term for a nerve that contains exclusively afferent nerve fibers. Nerves containing also motor fibers... 4 KB (450 words) - 16:55, 17 December 2023 |
Lower motor neuron lesion (redirect from Lower motor neurone lesion) A lower motor neuron lesion is a lesion which affects nerve fibers traveling from the lower motor neuron(s) in the anterior horn/anterior grey column of... 4 KB (356 words) - 00:01, 1 May 2024 |
Upper motor neuron lesion (redirect from Upper motor neurone lesion) 120–. ISBN 978-0-7817-7245-7. Retrieved 17 November 2010. "upper motor neurone signs". GPnotebook. "The Precise Neurological Exam". Retrieved 2009-11-28... 4 KB (428 words) - 07:18, 7 September 2021 |
Sympatholytic (redirect from Adrenergic neurone blockers) transporter. Such transports allows the drugs to accumulate within sympathetic neurones, where they can act to inhibit sympathetic function. Such drugs include... 11 KB (1,303 words) - 21:40, 3 December 2023 |
Projection fiber (redirect from Projection neurone) The projection fibers consist of efferent and afferent fibers uniting the cortex with the lower parts of the brain and with the spinal cord. In human neuroanatomy... 4 KB (419 words) - 19:12, 23 February 2024 |
Purkinje cell (redirect from Purkinje neurone) Purkinje cells or Purkinje neurons, named for Czech physiologist Jan Evangelista Purkyně who identified them in 1837,[citation needed] are a unique type... 29 KB (3,275 words) - 07:46, 30 April 2024 |
Motor neuron (redirect from Motor neurone) A motor neuron (or motoneuron or efferent neuron) is a neuron whose cell body is located in the motor cortex, brainstem or the spinal cord, and whose axon... 26 KB (2,987 words) - 08:15, 27 April 2024 |
Mirror neuron (redirect from Mirror neurone) A mirror neuron is a neuron that fires both when an organism acts and when the organism observes the same action performed by another. Thus, the neuron... 84 KB (10,038 words) - 05:12, 19 February 2024 |
Acclimatisation (neurons) (redirect from Acclimatisation (neurones)) Acclimatisation is the process by which the nervous system fails to respond to a stimulus, as a result of the repeated stimulation of a transmission across... 846 bytes (100 words) - 17:51, 6 October 2019 |
Non-spiking neuron (redirect from Non-spiking neurones) Non-spiking neurons are neurons that are located in the central and peripheral nervous systems and function as intermediary relays for sensory-motor neurons... 19 KB (2,502 words) - 00:15, 27 April 2024 |
Alpha motor neuron (redirect from Alpha motor neurone) Alpha (α) motor neurons (also called alpha motoneurons), are large, multipolar lower motor neurons of the brainstem and spinal cord. They innervate extrafusal... 16 KB (1,982 words) - 06:24, 16 November 2023 |
Olfactory receptor neuron (redirect from Olfactory neurone) An olfactory receptor neuron (ORN), also called an olfactory sensory neuron (OSN), is a sensory neuron within the olfactory system. Humans have between... 11 KB (1,191 words) - 05:01, 21 March 2024 |
Type Ia sensory fiber (redirect from 1α neurones) A type Ia sensory fiber, or a primary afferent fiber is a type of afferent nerve fiber. It is the sensory fiber of a stretch receptor called the muscle... 5 KB (571 words) - 20:45, 22 March 2022 |
Gamma motor neuron (redirect from Gamma motor neurone) A gamma motor neuron (γ motor neuron), also called gamma motoneuron, or fusimotor neuron, is a type of lower motor neuron that takes part in the process... 20 KB (2,801 words) - 06:12, 1 April 2024 |
Golgi tendon organ (redirect from 1β afferent neurones) The Golgi tendon organ (GTO) (also called Golgi organ, tendon organ, neurotendinous organ or neurotendinous spindle) is a proprioceptor – a type of sensory... 10 KB (946 words) - 15:06, 4 March 2024 |
only two neurones: a sensory neurone (the muscle spindle fibre) and the motor neurone. The sensory neurone synapses onto the motor neurone in the spinal... 22 KB (2,345 words) - 15:58, 5 April 2024 |
Hawking was diagnosed with an early-onset slow-progressing form of motor neurone disease that gradually, over decades, paralysed him. After the loss of... 183 KB (17,736 words) - 21:16, 28 April 2024 |
research when he discovered that his family has the genetic form of motor neurone disease (MND). He held the position of Professor in Neurodegenerative Disease... 17 KB (1,601 words) - 20:00, 16 April 2024 |
regime. Gordon Aikman (1985–2017), British political researcher and motor neurone disease campaigner. Frank Alamo (1941–2012), French singer. Bruce Allpress... 80 KB (6,015 words) - 21:50, 26 April 2024 |
just over a year later at the age of 29 after being diagnosed with motor neurone disease. Darby was brought up in Maghull, Merseyside, where he attended... 25 KB (2,123 words) - 11:11, 21 April 2024 |