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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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Switching the light on for MND

7 April 201419 April 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutesMND Association-funded researcher, Prof Linda Greensmith, based at University College London, together with her collaborator Dr Ivo Lieberam from Kings College London, have introduced stem

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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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Discussing MND in Dublin

28 May 2012

Reading Time: 5 minutesDelegates to last weekend’s ENCALS (European Network for the Cure of ALS) meeting in Dublin were met with uncharacteristic hot and sunny weather – enjoyed

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Debunking claims of risk of MND and being born between April and August

10 June 2011

Reading Time: 2 minutesThis morning we read with interest an article in the Daily Mail newspaper which links MND to the month that you were born in. According to

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Studying the risk of developing MND

12 December 2010

Reading Time: 2 minutesA very natural response to receiving a diagnosis of MND is to ask ‘Why me?’. Many people with the disease question whether their MND could

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