Reading Time: 2 minutes Huge congratulations to Professor Ammar Al-Chalabi for winning the prestigious Sheila Essey Award at the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) research conference taking place in Vancouver, Canada. Professor
Author: Sara Bolton
Reading Time: 4 minutes The recent announcement about the use of stem cells to treat a form of multiple sclerosis (MS), together with early results from the BrainStorm stem
Reading Time: 5 minutes Clinical trials determine if potential treatments are safe and aim to prove beyond reasonable doubt whether a drug is beneficial. They are therefore the gold
Reading Time: 5 minutes Different ways to support breathing were the main focus of the second clinical session on day two of the Symposium. Researchers from two MND Association
Reading Time: 4 minutes A huge ‘atlas’ mapping the locations of motor neurone disease (MND) causing mutations within the genetic code has been collated. This has followed years of
Reading Time: 4 minutes Could there be a small number of people for whom there is a pause or a reversal in their disease progression? A talk at the
Reading Time: 3 minutes While muscle cramps are a very common symptom of motor neurone disease (MND) there is currently few effective ways of management and treatment. Even though
Reading Time: 3 minutes Update (February 2017): All sites are now closed and not recruiting for participants. If you would like to be added to a waiting list for
Reading Time: 3 minutes The 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