Reading Time: 2 minutesAlternative treatments can be tempting if you have a disease like MND, for which conventional medicine can only offer one moderately effective drug. Unfortunately this temptation is easily
Category: MND Research
Reading Time: 3 minutesOn Tuesday morning we received an email from The Scotsman – a Scotland based newspaper asking us for a quote on a new research finding
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Programme Committee have now finalised the list of platform presentations for the 21st International Symposium on ALS/MND. We are now in the process of informing
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMND Research is now officially on Twitter! So, not only are we blogging to take you behind the scenes of MND research but now we’re tweeting!
Reading Time: 2 minutesStephanie Rainey-Smith (pictured left) has recently passed her MND Association funded PhD studentship. Congratulations Stephanie! This studentship was somewhat different from the others that we fund as it
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn the past 15 years, I have seen MND move from a scientific ‘backwater’ to the forefront of neurodegenerative disease research. It is noticeable these
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
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
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI am optimistic every time I prepare a talk when I look for something new to say about advances in research. Since the discovery of
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAfter being asked to write about why I am a research optimist, I tried to think about the achievements in MND research. After attending the Care Centre