4 North Medical Center, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan Correspondence to Dr Yu-ichi Noto, Department of Neurology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine Graduate School of ...

Niemann-Pick type C disease (NPC) is a rare autosomal recessive lysosomal storage disorder, most often caused by biallelic pathogenic variants in the NPC1 gene (~95 %). While the central nervous ...

Your muscles move when nerve signals from the brain tell them to get to work. Electromyography (EMG), a diagnostic test, measures how well your muscles respond to those signals. Movement is a complex ...

Amy Kwan, DPT, PT, is a physical therapist based in New York City who specializes in providing care to patients with a variety of orthopedic and neurological conditions. Carpal tunnel syndrome is a ...

There are several tests clinicians use to diagnose muscular dystrophy (MD), a group of genetic disorders characterized by progressive muscle weakness. An early and accurate MD diagnosis is important ...

In this Journal feature, information about a real patient is presented in stages (boldface type) to an expert clinician, who responds to the information by sharing relevant background and reasoning ...

You can have a normal electromyography (EMG) test result and have amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). It depends on the stage of your ALS and the type of ALS you have. EMG is an electrical test that ...

Abstract: Electrophysiological tests, especially, electromyogram (EMG) and nerve conduction velocity (NCV) test are commonly used in clinical practice for diagnosis of muscle and nerve diseases.

Objectives Chronic inflammatory axonal polyneuropathy (CIAP) is defined on the basis of the clinical, electrophysiological and nerve biopsy findings and therapeutic responses of ‘immunotherapy ...