Our bodies’ nerve cells are important for transmitting electrical and chemical information between different parts of the brain and between the brain and other parts of the nervous system. One of the ...

To understand how the nervous system controls movements, it is necessary to understand the repertoire of motor neuron-driven movements available to the brain when choreographing the motion of the body ...

A recent study published in Nature 1 used an optogenetically-activated behavioral paradigm in fruit flies to demonstrate that individual motor neurons command their target muscles in a biased manner ...

If you have upper motor neuron lesions, you have damage to certain nerve cells that help you move. Medicines and therapy can help control symptoms like muscle spasms and help you walk and talk more ...