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Symposium Preview: Meet the ALS/FTD Plenary Speakers…Part 2

29 November 202329 November 2023Eleanor GreenLeave a comment

Reading Time: 5 minutes Every year, the team works hard to build on the previous year’s success. This year we are excited to include a series of three ALS-FTD joint sessions, in collaboration with the International Society for Frontotemporal Dementias, in the programme. To give you a teaser of what is to come, we are taking a closer look at the plenary speakers in the ALS-FTD sessions at the Symposium. In this blog, we explore the topics they will be presenting and find out a little more about the speakers.

Symposium Preview: Meet the ALS/FTD Plenary Speakers…Part 1

22 November 202322 November 2023Eleanor GreenLeave a comment

Some people with ALS, the most common form of MND, also develop a form of dementia known as frontotemporal dementia (FTD). FTD is a group of disorders where the nerve cells in two sets of lobes (frontal and temporal) in the brain are damaged. In a similar way to how motor neurones break down in MND and cause loss of function in muscles, the damage to the nerve cells in FTD causes the connections between parts of the brain to break down. As more cells become damaged and die this can lead to symptoms such as problems with memory, thinking or language, changes in mood, emotions and behaviour.

Behind the headlines: could a potential treatment for MND be developed into a nasal spray?

24 March 202324 March 2023Research Information TeamLeave a comment

Reading Time: 6 minutes Recent research, led by Professor Guillaume Hautbergue at the University of Sheffield, has found a potential new method of preventing nerve cell death in the most common genetic form of MND. This new method could, with further studies, lead to the development of a potential therapy for C9orf72 MND, and a type of dementia called…

Assessing cognitive change

10 November 202120 April 2022Mandy SpencerLeave a comment

Reading Time: 5 minutes This is blog number 8 in our ‘Symposium Blogathon’ – counting down to the 32nd International Symposium on ALS/MND. Numbers in bold green type correspond to the code in the abstract book. Click on the number to be redirected to the full abstract (the page might take a minute to load). Up to half of…

CYLD: New FTD and MND gene identified

7 April 202020 May 2020Research Information Team2 Comments

Reading Time: 4 minutes Due to the collaboration, hard work and partnerships with people affected by motor neurone disease (MND) who generously take part in research, new pieces of the complex MND puzzle continue to be found. These pieces can come in many forms and one such type of discovery is of the genes that cause MND – in…

Cognition and FTD: Highlights from Glasgow

21 January 201920 May 2020Research Information TeamLeave a comment

Reading Time: 3 minutes Written by Rachel Boothman and Kaye Stevens This blog is part of the ‘Highlights from Glasgow’ collection of articles, where you can read about the content of some of the talks and posters presented at the 29th International Symposium on ALS/MND. Exploration into cognition and frontotemporal dementia with MND/ALS continues to attract attention. At the…

MND and the mind – who is affected?

18 September 201820 May 2020Martina Slapkova2 Comments

Reading Time: 3 minutes Motor 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 movement, leading to loss of the ability to move, speak and breathe. And perhaps because the main focus often falls on the rapidly-progressing physical symptoms and their management, the way…

Stuck in FUS – the story of arginines, MND and FTD

22 April 201820 May 2020Martina Slapkova5 Comments

Reading Time: 5 minutes In recent news, a number of press releases highlighted a paper published in the journal Cell, in which scientists, under the leadership of the University of Toronto’s Professor Peter St George-Hyslop, and in collaboration with University of Cambridge, described the process of how the FUS protein leads to the development of motor neurone disease (MND)…

Mice and Marbles: A CRISPR Model of Motor Neurone Disease

23 March 20182 August 2024nickjamescoleLeave a comment

Reading Time: 6 minutes A new model of MND in mice made using CRISPR technology to edit TDP-43. The mice have cognitive changes and have uncovered new insights into MND- FTD mechanisms.

Exploring the interaction between TDP-43 and RNA

5 April 20175 May 2022Martina Slapkova2 Comments

Reading Time: 3 minutes In light of the upcoming Biomedical Research Advisory Panel meeting happening on Friday 7 April that will discuss which new research projects the MND Association will fund, we are pleased to report on the progress of one of our already-funded researchers. In their three year project, funded by the MND Association, Prof Annalisa Pastore (King’s College London)…