Reading Time: 2 minutesKaren Pearce, the MND Association’s Director of Care, blogs about presenting the Association’s wheelchair project at the Allied Professionals Forum, which happened prior to the
Category: Symposium
Reading Time: 3 minutesEvery day there are two sets of talks going on at the same time during the International Symposium. On Saturday morning there was a symmetry
Reading Time: 4 minutesA 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: 3 minutesWith motor neurone disease (MND), the muscle weakness almost always starts in a single part of the body, with the weakness then spreading to other
Reading Time: 3 minutesYesterday at the International Symposium on ALS/MND Prof Ammar Al-Chalabi (Director of King’s Care Centre and Professor of Complex Genetics at King’s College London) cautioned
Reading Time: 3 minutesResearch into the neurodegenerative condition known as Guam ALS-Parkinson Dementia Complex (ALS-PDC) has tended to find itself slightly isolated from the mainstream MND/ALS research world
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe MND Association’s Director of Care (South), Karen Pearce, gives her thoughts on one of the clinical sessions on the first day of the Symposium.
Reading Time: 4 minutesCould 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 minutesWhile muscle cramps are a very common symptom of motor neurone disease (MND) there is currently few effective ways of management and treatment. Even though