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32nd Symposium: Virtual Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research

Do lifestyle and environment play a part in MND?

3 November 202123 November 2021

Reading Time: 4 minutesThis is blog number 3 in our ‘Symposium Blogathon’ – counting down to the 32nd International Symposium on ALS/MND. Numbers in bold green text correspond

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Genetics and MND

2 November 202123 November 2021

Reading Time: 5 minutesThis is blog number two in our ‘Symposium Blogathon’ – counting down to the 32nd International Symposium on ALS/MND. Numbers in bold green text correspond

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10 years of the MND Research Blog

14 April 202010 September 2020

Reading Time: 6 minutesToday marks 10 years since the MND Association’s research blog first started, making it our ‘blogiversary’. It officially began with a welcome post from our

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Clinical Trials MND Research News Treatments

Edaravone (Radicava) approved to treat MND in USA – what does this mean for people with MND in the UK

6 May 2017

Reading Time: 2 minutesOn Friday 5 May in America, the FDA, the organisation that approves drugs, announced that they’d granted a licence for the drug known as a

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Families for the Treatment of Hereditary MND (FaTHoM)

20 February 2017

Reading Time: 2 minutesScientists from the University of Oxford have set up ‘Families for the Treatment of Hereditary MND’ (FaTHoM), an initiative to bring together the community of

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The Cinderella symptom: Muscle cramps in MND

12 December 201528 April 2022

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

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Changing the way we think about the causes of MND

12 December 201528 April 2022

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,

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The causes of MND – what about head injury?

6 December 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutesHead injury has been a hot topic in the media in relation to MND. I also receive a number of enquiries from people living with

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Lessons learnt from cancer – identifying the causes of MND

14 November 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutesPublished in Lancet Neurology on 7 October 2014, Association-funded researcher, Prof Ammar Al-Chalabi based at King’s College London, and an international team of researchers have used

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Sally Light – my MND research blog

30 June 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutesTo end MND Awareness month our final blog for our MND Research ‘blog a day’ is from Sally Light, CEO of the MND Association. After joining the Association back in

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