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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Reporting from the 23rd International Symposium on ALS/MND
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
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
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,
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
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
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
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
Reading Time: 3 minutesTrying to understand what the different underlying factors are towards developing MND has always been a goal for ALS research. MND Association funded researcher and
Reading Time: < 1 minuteNovember has been an incredibly busy time for us, not because of Christmas, but because the 23rd International Symposium on ALS/MND is now only one week away!