Internal receptors respond to changes inside the body. For example, they can detect changes in the blood’s chemical properties or respond to potentially damaging stimuli by causing the perception of ...

Neurons are cells in the body that are responsible for transmitting ... and muscles that control the body. The three neuron types (sensory, motor, interneuron) are separated into two categories ...

But the voices represent a vast improvement on previous communication technologies and are already improving the lives of people with motor neuron diseases, says Richard Cave, a speech and ...

According to Dr Matilda Wendo, a Neurologist at The Aga Khan Hospital, MNDs are a group of progressive neurological disorders that destroy motor neurons, the cells that control skeletal muscle ...

A reflex action follows this general sequence and does not involve the conscious part of the brain. This is why the response is so fast. Receptor in the skin detects a stimulus (the change in ...

Selective death of motor neurons beginning in mid life is the hallmark of the most abundant motor-neuron disease of adults ... the vascular endothelial cell growth factor (VEGF).

Otuoma died after a long battle with Motor Neurone ... to nerve cells in the brainstem and spinal cord (lower motor neurons), which then send signals to muscles throughout the body.