The Neuromuscular Disease Center has a long history of providing excellent ... normal communication between the nerve and muscle is interrupted at the neuromuscular junction. Normally when impulses ...

Congenital myasthenic syndromes (CMSs) are a heterogeneous group of disorders that affect the safety margin of neuromuscular transmission — the depolarization that is required for propagation of ...

A treatment that could potentially slow the progression of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is being studied at the ...

The neuromuscular junction (NMJ, yellow) and myotendinous junctions (MTJ ... Individual muscles also have different susceptibilities to diseases like muscular dystrophy, muscle myopathies, and ...

motor neuron disease, neuromuscular junction transmission disorder, and myopathy, both in adults and children. Fellows will perform and interpret electrodiagnostic tests under faculty supervision.

Neuromuscular disorders (NMDs) are like random WiFi outages ... Repetitive stimulation: This checks for neuromuscular junction issues by sending a series of signals to see if your muscles respond ...

Moving forward, Dr. Schoppik's team will study their newly detailed circuit in the context of human disorders. Ongoing work explores how failures of motor neuron and neuromuscular junction ...