usually experience muscle weakness that impacts movement. New research suggests that electrical spinal cord stimulation could improve muscle function for these patients, even restoring the ...

You can train like that, but it's not the best way. Here's why you should train movements, not muscles, to get better results ...

A muscle that we thought served no purpose beyond enabling some people to wiggle their ears is actually active when we are ...

The phenomenon is caused by the tensor tympani, a tiny muscle inside the ear responsible for dampening loud noises, like thunder or chewing. While most people's ears activate this muscle ...

A biohybrid hand which can move objects and do a scissor gesture has been built by a team at the University of Tokyo and Waseda University in Japan. The researchers used thin strings of lab-grown ...

So, while anxiety can trigger involuntary muscle movement, involuntary muscle movement can also trigger anxiety. Since involuntary muscle movement is often associated with serious neurological ...

New research shows that a network of subcellular structures similar to those responsible for propagating molecular signals that make muscles contract are also responsible for transmitting signals in ...

Why do our mental images stay sharp even when we are moving fast? A team of neuroscientists led by Professor Maximilian Jösch at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) has identified a ...

Adults exhibited higher large muscle group leg movement indices during REM vs NREM sleep. Large muscle group movements during sleep are more frequent among older adults than younger people ...