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Global MND awareness day: Hidden challenges of MND research

20 June 202520 June 2025 Eleanor Green

Understanding the ‘hidden middle’ of cognitive change in MND

11 June 202511 June 2025 Mandy Spencer

MIROCALS: breaking down the trial results

9 May 202512 May 2025 Research Information Team

Improving Care at Home: A New Study into Complex Homecare in MND (CHiMND)

1 May 20251 May 2025 Gen Temple

Symposium Highlights: Cells and MND

26 March 202526 March 2025 Katy Barnes

Symposium highlights: A spotlight on glial cells in MND

19 March 202519 March 2025 Libby Moody
MND Research Research we fund

Summary Applications Explained

23 October 201314 April 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutesOur call for preliminary summary applications for project grants is in full swing with the Online Summary Application Form currently live on our website. The

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MND Research News Treatments

A view from the President

11 October 201314 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesAfter we posted yesterday’s blog (Thursday 10 October) about Giovanna Mallucci’s research in Leicester, we received a report on the story from the President of the

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MND Research News

A PERK for neurodegenerative disease?

10 October 201314 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesOur bodies need to be able to make new proteins, to maintain long term memory. So if the ability to make new proteins is switched

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Healthcare MND Research News Research we fund

Screening for Cognitive and Behavioural Change in MND

4 October 201314 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesMND Association-funded researcher Dr Sharon Abrahams (University of Edinburgh) has recently published an article on the Edinburgh Cognitive ALS Screen (ECAS) in the prestigious journal

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Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research News Research we fund

The UK MND DNA Bank opens its doors to researchers around the world

1 October 201314 April 2022

Reading Time: 5 minutesBy 2011 the UK motor neurone disease (MND) DNA Bank had collected over 3,000 samples from people living with MND in the UK, their family

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Researchers in Australia identify how blue-green algae may cause some cases of MND

26 September 201314 April 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutesA toxin known as β-N-methylamino-l-alanine (BMAA), which is found in blue-green algae, has been shown to cause proteins inside cells to clump together and cause cell

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MND Research News Research we fund

Attracting Promising Research – Project Grant Applications

19 September 201314 April 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutesSummer has gone and autumn has arrived, which means it is time to open our Online Summary Application Form for our next round of research

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MND Research News Unproven treatments

Unproven treatments: Have you really got nothing to lose by trying it?

16 September 201314 April 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutesThe only ‘proven’ treatment to slow the progression of MND is Riluzole. There are, however, many organisations offering expensive ‘unproven’ and ‘alternative’ treatments for MND.

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MND Research Symposium

Abstract statistics

28 August 201314 April 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutesIn the heat of August (for once I can actually write that, without my fingers crossed behind my back!), statistics relating to the production of

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MND Research Symposium

The International Symposium on ALS/MND

23 August 201314 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesEvery year in December the MND Association organizes the largest medical and scientific conference specific to MND in the world. The International Symposium on ALS/MND attracts over

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