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The MND Association’s vision is a world free from MND. Realising this vision means investing more in research, further developing partnerships with the research community, funding bodies and industry, while ensuring that advances in understanding and treating MND are communicated as quickly and effectively as possible.

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Happy New Year – Quiz answers and round up of 2011!

1 January 201213 April 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutesAnd the answers to our Christmas Quiz are: How many neurones does a human have? Billions Which animal has the largest brain? Bottlenose dolphin How

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Round up of news from the 22nd International Symposium on ALS/MND

6 December 2011

Reading Time: 2 minutesWe organise the International Symposium on ALS/MND every year, and it is regarded as the premier medical conference on MND and a highlight of the

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Healthcare

A summary of the Holistic Care and Quality of Life session

1 December 2011

Reading Time: 4 minutesI wanted to write a ReCCoB blog about the Holistic Care and Quality of Life session, which is closely related to my interests, not least

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MND Association funded researcher featured on JNNP podcast

19 August 2011

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAt last year’s 21st International Symposium on ALS/MND, we told you about a study which suggested that handedness is linked to the site of onset

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Read all about the New York Stem Cell Conference

12 August 2011

Reading Time: < 1 minute ….or at least, read even more about it!   Back in January, we reported that sixty of the world’s leading stem cell research experts from

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Happiness is…

6 July 2011

Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhat brings you happiness? What makes life worth living? Is it going on holiday, spending time with loved ones or just being able to get

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Clinical Trials Treatments

UK arm of worldwide dexpramipexole trial opens!

11 May 2011

Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’m glad to finally announce that UK recruitment for the dexpramipexole clinical trial is now open! So far, we are aware that Liverpool has opened

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Deanna – incurable optimist

28 June 2010

Reading Time: < 1 minuteI have been lucky in the past two years to work at the International Symposium on ALS/MND, and am always inspired by the enthusiasm, and

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Marion – incurable optimist

25 June 2010

Reading Time: 2 minutesMy reasons for being an ‘incurable optimist’ is the increasing amount of research being carried out and the number of researchers interested in MND and

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