Reading Time: 2 minutesIt wouldn’t be the Symposium without a new gene discovery. Although technology has allowed incredible advances in the gene-hunting field, this is countered by the
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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
Reading Time: 3 minutesAdult onset condition, those with genetic mutations associated with the disease don’t get it until they’re adults, starts in one place and then it spreads,
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe August Bank holiday weekend is always greeted with a sigh of relief from the Research Development Team as it signals the sending off of
Reading Time: < 1 minute“On the third day of Christmas MND research gives to you… THREE days of the 25th International symposium on ALS/MND” From 5 – 7 December