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What causes Motor Neurone Disease?

14 August 202414 August 2024

Reading Time: 7 minutesThe exact causes of motor neurone disease (MND) are currently not known. It is thought a number of genetic, environmental and lifestyle risk factors need

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30th Symposium: Perth 2019 Healthcare MND Research

Dysphagia and nutritional management: Highlights from Perth

10 January 202020 May 2020

Reading Time: 5 minutesThis blog is part of the ‘Highlights from Perth’ collection of articles, where you can read about the content of some of the talks and

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29th Symposium: Glasgow 2018 Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research Symposium

Lifestyle & environment: Highlights from Glasgow

13 December 201820 May 2020

Reading Time: 3 minutesThis blog is part of the ‘Highlights from Glasgow’ collection of articles, where you can read about the content of some of the talks and

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Healthcare MND Research

Exercise after diagnosis – a closer look at the evidence

12 June 201820 May 2020

Reading Time: 6 minutesPhysical activity and MND – part 2 This is part two of our series of blogs looking at links between physical activity and MND. This

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Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research

Does physical activity cause MND? A fresh look at the evidence

23 May 201815 July 2020

Reading Time: 5 minutesPhysical activity and MND – part 1 Every month the Research Information team looks at ‘the stats’ for the MND Research blog. These show us

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24th Symposium: Milan 2013 Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research News Research we fund Symposium

Physical activity and MND – is there a link?

8 December 201314 April 2022

Reading Time: 5 minutesThe results of new research investigating a link between physical activity and MND was presented by the University of Sheffield research group in the late-breaking

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22nd Symposium: Sydney 2011 Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research

If you were a car, would you be a Ferrari or a Focus?

1 December 2011

Reading Time: 2 minutesPeople at increased risk of MND might be the human equivalent of high performance cars – built for speed and agility but becoming unreliable once

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