We can't help but wonder if people aren't getting a little too sensitive. First Ubisoft's Mind Quiz for the DS and PSP was yanked, and now Mario Party 8 suffered the same fate right after its UK ...

After more than six decades in business, the Spastic Centre has renamed itself the Cerebral Palsy Alliance, arguing that these days the word spastic has too many negative connotations. To mark the ...

While it might have given our ancestors an evolutionary advantage, an "unstable" region on human chromosome 15 is also the source of a set of inherited neurological diseases. Researchers at ...

Researchers found a way to inhibit the mitochondrial fission in nerve cell axons, which can promote normal growth and potentially stop further damage in neurodegenerative disorders like hereditary ...

Spastic limb paralysis due to injury to a cerebral hemisphere can cause long-term disability. We investigated the effect of grafting the contralateral C7 nerve from the nonparalyzed side to the ...

Hereditary spastic paraplegias refers to a clinically and genetically heterogenous disorders that are characterised by lower extremity spasticity and weakness. When the symptoms of this disease behind ...

Hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP), also known as familial spastic paraparesis, is a term used for a group of inherited diseases that affect the upper motor neurons traveling from the brain through ...

Paraparesis is the partial paralysis of both legs due to disrupted nerve signals from the brain to the muscles. Paraparesis can be caused by genetic factors and viral infections. In this article, we ...

There is no cure for the rare disease Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia (HSP), but researchers from Drexel University's College of Medicine and the UMass Chan Medical School have achieved ...