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Motor Neuron Disease

Known as: disease motor neuron, motor neurone disease, disease motor neurone 
Diseases characterized by a selective degeneration of the motor neurons of the spinal cord, brainstem, or motor cortex. Clinical subtypes are… 
National Institutes of Health

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Abnormal involuntary movementAtaxiaIn BloodMicrobiological

Narrower (16)

Amyotrophic Lateral SclerosisAnterior Horn Cell DiseaseFamilial Motor Neuron DiseaseLateral Sclerosis

Broader (6)

CNS disorderDegenerative Diseases, Central Nervous SystemDiseaseNeurodegenerative Disorders

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Highly Cited
2008
Highly Cited
2008
Motor Skill Training, but not Voluntary Exercise, Improves Skilled Reaching After Unilateral Ischemic Lesions of the Sensorimotor Cortex in Rats
Background and Purpose . Exercise and rehabilitative training each have been implicated in the promotion of restorative neural… 
Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Involvement of the subthalamic nucleus in glutamatergic compensatory mechanisms
The purpose of the present study was to investigate whether the subthalamic nucleus (STN) was implicated in the glutamatergic… 
Review
1993
Review
1993
Issues & Opinions: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: Lower motor neuron disease spreading to upper motor neurons
Contrary to the recently reemphasized notion that the primary neuron involved in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is the… 
Highly Cited
1993
Highly Cited
1993
Alcohol and drug use among motor vehicle collision victims admitted to a regional trauma unit: demographic, injury, and crash characteristics.
Highly Cited
1987
Highly Cited
1987
Multiple neuropeptides in cholinergic motor neurons of Aplysia: evidence for modulation intrinsic to the motor circuit.
Changes in Aplysia biting responses during food arousal are partially mediated by the serotonergic metacerebral cells (MCCs). The… 
Highly Cited
1985
Highly Cited
1985
Preschool performance of children with normal intelligence who were very low-birth-weight infants.
Highly Cited
1979
Highly Cited
1979
The size of motor units during post‐natal development of rat lumbrical muscle.
1. The number of muscle fibres innervated by individual motor neurones (motor unit size) was measured in lumbrical muscles of… 
Highly Cited
1979
Highly Cited
1979
Visual-motor adaptation. Quantitative demonstration in patients with posterior fossa involvement.
Short-term visual-motor adaptation to magnifying spectacle lenses was studied in normal subjects and in patients with nonacute… 
Highly Cited
1978
Highly Cited
1978
Facility of motor unit control during tasks defined directly in terms of unit behaviors
Highly Cited
1976
Highly Cited
1976
Correlation analysis of muscle spindle responses to single motor unit contractions.
1. Cross‐correlation techniques have been used to study the responses of muscle spindle afferents from the soleus muscle of the… 
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