That's why Christopher Moore and Hyeyoung Shin, researchers at Brown University who study gamma rhythms, were surprised when they found a type of neuron that not only fired at a relatively steady ...

Transgenic mice expressing a mutant form of dynactin in neurons are a useful new model for motor neuron disease, report Laird et al. in this week’s Journal. As part of a complex with dynein ...

To study how the movement of mitochondria is related to motor neuron disease, Nguyen developed two mouse models in which the gene that makes Miro1 was knocked out. In one model, mice lacked Miro1 ...