Reading Time: 2 minutesDeveloping disease models is important for furthering our understanding of MND and allows researchers to screen potential new drugs for a beneficial effect. Moving a
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Reading Time: 2 minutesDeposits of the protein TDP-43 are found within the motor neurones in the majority of cases of MND, and are considered a pathological hallmark of
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe MND Association funds several healthcare research projects that aim to improve care and symptom management for people living with MND. One such project is
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhat is the MND Register? The MND Register is a major five year project that aims to collect and store information about every person living
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: 2 minutesSome people with MND develop an increasingly recognised form of dementia, known as frontotemporal dementia or FTD (for more information visit http://www.ftdtalk.org/). The main symptoms
Reading Time: < 1 minutePhD student Emma Smith has recently started the second year of her MND Association-funded research project at the Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SiTRAN) in
Reading Time: 2 minutesMistakes in a gene known as ALS5, or spatacsin, cause a rare form of inherited MND that develops at a much earlier age than most
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe results from a study looking at the possible links between exposure to environmental toxins (found in pesticides) and motor neurone disease (MND) was published