Medically reviewed by Nicholas R. Metrus, MD Multiple sclerosis (MS) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, also called Lou Gehrig's disease) are both diseases that affect your central nervous system ...

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) involves a complex interaction between genetic susceptibility and environmental insults. In this Review, Paez-Colasante and colleagues discuss various disease ...

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, known as ALS, is a neurodegenerative disorder which affects motor neurons. These are the neuronal cells responsible for muscle innervation, whose degenerations leads ...

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, attacks nerve cells known as motor neurons in the brain and spinal cord, gradually leading to paralysis. The loss of function of an important gene, C9orf72 ...

Intakes of vitamin C and carotenoids and risk of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: Pooled results from 5 cohort studies. Annals of Neurology, 2012; DOI: 10.1002/ana.23820 ...

July 7, 2022 Degradation of motor neurons, conceptual computer illustration. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also referred to as Lou Gehrig's disease is the most common of the motor neuron diseases.

Long-term exposure to sulfur dioxide, an air pollutant generated by the burning of fossil fuels, increases the risk of ALS, a ...

Raffaella Uccelli, Alessandra Binazzi, Pierluigi Altavista, Stefano Belli, Pietro Comba, Marina Mastrantonio, Nicola Vanacore, Geographic distribution of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis through motor ...

• Key Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Pipeline Therapies: ION363, FB418, SRK-015, RNS60, QRL-201, SAR443820, MN-166, VM202, VRG-50635, Zilucoplan, and others.

New advances in brain-computer interface (BCI) technology may make speech for those who've lost the ability to do easier than ...