A neuromuscular disease is any disease affecting the peripheral nervous system (PNS), the neuromuscular junctions, or skeletal muscles, all of which are...

Neuromuscular junction disease is a medical condition where the normal conduction through the neuromuscular junction fails to function correctly. In diseases...

A neuromuscular junction (or myoneural junction) is a chemical synapse between a motor neuron and a muscle fiber. It allows the motor neuron to transmit...

Below is a partial list of neuromuscular disorders. Duchenne muscular dystrophy Becker muscular dystrophy DMD-associated dilated cardiomyopathy Limb girdle...

on Motor Neuron Diseases/Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis of the World Federation of Neurology Research Group on Neuromuscular Diseases and the El Escorial...

neuromuscular function at the neuromuscular junction (NMJ). The neuromuscular junction is abnormal in CMT2D mice, with subjects showing neuromuscular...

Muscular disease can be classified as neuromuscular or musculoskeletal in nature. Some conditions, such as myositis, can be considered both neuromuscular and...

Myasthenia gravis (MG) is a long-term neuromuscular junction disease that leads to varying degrees of skeletal muscle weakness. The most commonly affected...

distinguish it from myasthenia gravis, a related autoimmune neuromuscular disease. If the disease is associated with cancer, direct treatment of the cancer...

also a factor in some neurodegenerative diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or the neuromuscular disease myotonic dystrophy. The sources of genome...

"Construction of a Quality of Life Questionnaire for slowly progressive neuromuscular disease". Qual Life Res. 24 (11): 2615–23. doi:10.1007/s11136-015-1013-8...

tool in the classification of inherited neuromuscular disease and diagnosis of many other neurogenetic diseases. The role of genetic influences on the...

Neuromuscular medicine is a subspecialty of neurology and physiatry that focuses the diagnosis and management of neuromuscular diseases. The field encompasses...

applications. Needle EMG is used as a diagnostics tool for identifying neuromuscular diseases, or as a research tool for studying kinesiology, and disorders of...

neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (Batten disease): current insights". Degenerative Neurological and Neuromuscular Disease. 6: 73–83. doi:10.2147/DNND.S111967...

volume due to reduced respiratory muscle activity, e.g. in acute neuromuscular disease); this form can also cause type 2 respiratory failure if severe...

deformity or neuromuscular disease, NIV may be commenced if the CO2 level is elevated even if it has not yet caused acidosis. In neuromuscular disease, a breathing...

Supportive care is focused on preventing disease complications and maintaining independence.  Neuromuscular symptoms include muscle weakness and wasting...

supporting people living with muscular dystrophy, ALS, and related neuromuscular diseases. Founded in 1950 by Paul Cohen, who lived with muscular dystrophy...

Pharmaceuticals has started to investigate it for the treatment of neuromuscular diseases. In 2010, early clinical trials for the treatment of Friedreich's...

(2005). "Electrophysiologic and laboratory aids in the diagnosis of neuromuscular disease". In Ropper AH, Brown RH (eds.). Adams and Victor's Principles of...

function. A subclass of these diseases that have neuromuscular symptoms are known as mitochondrial myopathies. Mitochondrial disease can manifest in many different...

underlying lung disease. Furthermore, the vital capacity is used to determine the severity of respiratory muscle involvement in neuromuscular disease, and can...

Presenting With Rapidly Progressive Sensory Ataxia". Journal of Clinical Neuromuscular Disease. 6 (1): 40–47. doi:10.1097/01.cnd.0000133065.28161.00. ISSN 1522-0443...

congenital neuromuscular channelopathy that affects skeletal muscles (muscles used for movement). It is a genetic disorder. The hallmark of the disease is the...

TREAT-NMD (treat NeuroMuscular Disease) is a global academic network that focuses on advancing research in neuromuscular disorders. It was established...

insufficiency. Diseases disrupting the neuromuscular junction can cause abnormal muscle fatigue, such as myasthenia gravis, an autoimmune disease. Similar,...

is an inherited neuromuscular disorder caused by defects of several types at the neuromuscular junction. The effects of the disease are similar to Lambert-Eaton...

Evidence Current Biomarker Findings† Degenerative Neurological and Neuromuscular Disease Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity: Targets and Therapy Drug...

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a rare neuromuscular disorder that results in the loss of motor neurons and progressive muscle wasting. It is usually...