Sentence examples for motor neuron involvement from inspiring English sources

Second, the core cerebral white matter involvement, mainly involving the corticospinal tracts, is linked more strongly to clinical upper motor neuron involvement rather than disability score as measured by the ALSFRS-R.

Twenty years later, he showed signs of upper motor neuron involvement.

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is the most common adult motor neuron disorder and, depending on the extent of lower motor neuron involvement, death generally occurs within 2 to 5 years following diagnosis.

Their manifestations include mental subnormality, bilateral corneal opacification starting in the second year of life and leading to severe visual impairment, and slowly progressive cerebellar abnormalities with variable dorsal column and upper motor neuron involvement.

In contrast, two recent studies provide evidence that the Loa/+ and Cra1/+ mice exhibit a sensory neuropathy without motor neuron involvement.

The oldest is based on the distinction between upper and lower motor neuron involvement and site of predominant disease burden, with categories progressive bulbar palsy, pseudobulbar palsy, progressive muscular atrophy, primary lateral sclerosis and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

Another possibility that deserves further study is that patients with left limb-onset may represent the ALS patients who were younger than 45 years old at the time of disease onset and characterized in prevalent upper motor neuron involvements, thus, leading to widespread GM abnormalities [ 65].

Investigation is designed to exclude other diseases and therefore includes neuroimaging, a number of biochemical and hematological tests, and an electromyography (EMG) to ascertain the extent of lower motor neuron (LMN) involvement.

Classic ALS was defined as concomitant UMN and lower motor neuron (LMN) involvement of either limb or bulbar onset with rapid symptoms generalization.

8 Conventional neuroimaging techniques that evaluate structural changes lack the specificity and sensitivity to serve as an "EMG" surrogate of upper motor neuron (UMN) involvement for ALS and detect clinically occult UMN signs.

80, 91 Recent studies 35 showing motor activation for particular components of language provide no special evidence for motor (or mirror neuron) involvement with language more broadly, because many linguistically structured concepts (color, clouds, beauty) have no motor component.