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Month: October 2015

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Palliative Care Research – new funding available

27 October 201528 April 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutesToday an exciting announcement was made about three organisations working together to increase our knowledge on the best way to provide palliative and end of

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MND Research News

How MND research happens: Manchester Science Festival

22 October 201528 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesOn Tuesday, we posted news of the two MND Awareness engagement events taking place in Manchester during the Manchester Science Festival (on 25 and 31

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Movement Making in Manchester

20 October 201528 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesManchester this half term will be the showcase for two MND awareness events we’ve been working on with Dr Emma Hodson-Tole and Dr Rickie Patani.

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Healthcare Research we fund

Are there differences between FTD alone and FTD-MND?

10 October 201528 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe last of our FTD awareness week blog posts is focussing on a healthcare project looking into FTD (frontotemporal dementia) and FTD-MND (FTD when combined with

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Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research Research we fund

Hunting for clues about the genetic causes of FTD and MND

9 October 20152 August 2024

Reading Time: 3 minutesYesterday we published an introductory blog on frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and described how it is sometimes found in combination with MND. Today we are looking

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Research we fund

Cognitive Change and MND

8 October 201528 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesIn addition to the muscle weakness and wasting, MND also presents with non-motor symptoms, one of the most common being cognitive change. Research has already

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Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research

Do retroviruses contribute to the common, sporadic form of MND?

1 October 2015

Reading Time: 2 minutesNew research from scientists at the American National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke in Bethesda suggest that they might. In a research paper published

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