Reading Time: 7 minutesLast month, we hosted the 35th International Symposium on ALS/MND in Montreal, Canada. The International Symposium brings together researchers, healthcare professionals and people with and affected
Tag: cognitive change
Reading Time: 4 minutesIt is known that people with MND experience different symptoms, and these are not just movement related. People with MND can experience difficulty speaking, breathing
32nd Symposium: Virtual Causes and disease mechanisms Healthcare Markers of Disease Progression MND Research Models of MND
32nd International Symposium: meet our plenary speakers (part 2)
Reading Time: 7 minutesThis is blog number 13 in our ‘Symposium Blogathon’ – counting down to the 32nd International Symposium on ALS/MND. Numbers in bold green type correspond
Reading Time: 5 minutesThis is blog number 8 in our ‘Symposium Blogathon’ – counting down to the 32nd International Symposium on ALS/MND. Numbers in bold green type correspond
Reading Time: 3 minutesMotor Neurone Disease (MND), as the name suggests, is known as a disease of motor neurons, a specific type of neurons that co-ordinate our voluntary
Reading Time: 4 minutesConferences and symposia are a crucial part of the research world – not only for the amount of knowledge that is communicated to large audiences
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe know that some people with MND will be affected by cognitive change and a small proportion of these will develop frontotemporal dementia (FTD). The
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe last of our FTD awareness week blog posts is focussing on a healthcare project looking into FTD (frontotemporal dementia) and FTD-MND (FTD when combined with
Reading Time: 3 minutesYesterday we published an introductory blog on frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and described how it is sometimes found in combination with MND. Today we are looking
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn addition to the muscle weakness and wasting, MND also presents with non-motor symptoms, one of the most common being cognitive change. Research has already