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Month: December 2012

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Season’s Greetings!

24 December 201214 April 2022

Reading Time: < 1 minuteWe thought we’d share this fantastic festive photo of (to our knowledge) the world’s first ‘gingerbread MRI scanner’, lovingly created by students at the Oxford

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Structure of C9ORF72 repeat identified by MND Association funded researchers

21 December 201214 April 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutesNew exciting findings announced today provide the first insight into the structure and function of a repeated six letter genetic sequence in an MND gene

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23rd Symposium: Chicago 2012 MND Research Symposium

A Summary of the news from the 23rd International symposium on ALS/MND

12 December 201214 April 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutesEach year we proudly organise the International Symposium on ALS/MND, and this year was a record breaker! The symposium was held in Chicago where over 900 clinicians, scientists and healthcare professionals

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23rd Symposium: Chicago 2012 MND Research Symposium

Reading the stars – why are ‘astrocytes’ toxic?

11 December 2012

Reading Time: 3 minutesOn the last day of the 23rd International Symposium on ALS/MND in Chicago last week there was an excellent session on ‘the role of non-neuronal

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Vive la difference!

7 December 2012

Reading Time: 3 minutesIt could be easy to assume that one motor neurone is pretty much like another, but a series of presentations on Thursday clearly showed that

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23rd Symposium: Chicago 2012 Healthcare MND Research Symposium

Reflections on the poster session

7 December 201214 April 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutesIn Chicago, it’s the beginning of the third day of the International Symposium on ALS/MND. I feel that I’ve become almost institutionalised: I get up,

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The clinical trials session

6 December 2012

Reading Time: 3 minutesA very much ‘must report on’ session of the 23rd International Symposium on ALS/MND was the clinical trials and trial design session. There are many

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Mastering Pac-Man

6 December 201214 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesGrowing up in a seaside town in the 1980s led to me spending a lot of my “formative years” in the local amusement arcades, playing

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A prize-winning story worth repeating

6 December 2012

Reading Time: 2 minutesMany congratulations to Rosa Rademakers from Mayo Clinic Florida USA, winner of this year’s Paulo Gontijo Young Investigator award. She won the award for her

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23rd Symposium: Chicago 2012 Healthcare MND Research Symposium

Recognising and supporting the role of informal carers

6 December 201214 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe symposium session ‘Carer and Family Support’ provided a platform to better understand the role that informal carers play in the lives of people with

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