Reading Time: 2 minutes Each year we proudly organise the International Symposium on ALS/MND, and this year was a record breaker! The symposium was held in Chicago where over 900 clinicians, scientists and healthcare professionals attended the three-day event. With 86 international speakers and over 300 posters we managed to write about it all in just over 5,000 words in our daily articles on this blog. Here’s a brief guide…
Reading Time: 3 minutes On the last day of the 23rd International Symposium on ALS/MND in Chicago last week there was an excellent session on ‘the role of non-neuronal cells’ – it was an exciting session – below is a flavour of some of the topics discussed. As its name suggests, motor neurone disease causes the degeneration of motor…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Growing up in a seaside town in the 1980s led to me spending a lot of my “formative years” in the local amusement arcades, playing iconic video games like Space Invaders (at which I was average) and Asteroids (I was the kid to beat!). One game I never got the hang of was Pac Man,…
