A recent study by Dr. Jordan Verplank, Assistant Professor in the Department of Anatomy, Physiology, and Genetics at the ...

A group of inherited disorders which cause nerve damage mostly ... Other laboratory tests to confirm the condition. Treatments can help manage condition, no known cure Diagnosed by medical ...

and an estimated one million individuals with an inherited degenerative nerve condition called Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease type 2 (CMT2). Peripheral neuropathy can cause severe disability and ...

Charcot-Marie-Tooth affects 1 in 2,500 people or approximately 2.6 million people worldwide. The disease causes progressive nerve damage ... Currently there is no cure and treatment focuses on ...

Avicenna received a patent covering ROCK inhibitor compounds for ALS, Parkinson’s, and other neurodegenerative conditions.

The SynGAP Research Fund 501(c)(3) has awarded a pair of grants to Dr. Clement Chow, a geneticist and Associate Professor in the Department of Human Genetics at the University of Utah. These grants ...

With a history of spinal injury and having not undergone a surgical stabilization, a syrinx was suspected. A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) study of the patient's cervical and thoracic spine was ...

Mitochondria In Motion Inc. has identified new N-(trans-4-hydroxycyclohexyl)-6-phenylhexanamide derivatives acting as mitofusin activators and reported to be useful for the treatment of Alzheimer’s, ...

An east Auckland teenager with a rare genetic condition is grateful for having received equipment that will make it easier ...

Actio is advancing two lead rare disease programs with first-in-class potential for the treatment of Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease, Type 2C (CMT2C) and genetic epilepsy. The CMT2C program is ...

Neuropathic osteoarthropathy, otherwise known as Charcot neuroarthropathy, is a chronic, degenerative arthropathy and is associated with decreased sensory innervation. Numerous causes of this ...