Reading Time: 3 minutes Adult onset condition, those with genetic mutations associated with the disease don’t get it until they’re adults, starts in one place and then it spreads, once it occurs the progression is usually relentless…. what condition am I describing? Professor Neil Pearce’s point in his talk at the opening session of the International Symposium on…
Reading Time: < 1 minute “On the fifth day of Christmas MND research gives to you… FIVE +1 triggers believed to cause MND” Under the leadership of Prof Neil Pearce at Prof Ammar Al-Chalabi, researchers have used a mathematical approach previously used by cancer researchers to explain why MND is an adult-onset disease, and why it varies (even within families). The…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Published in Lancet Neurology on 7 October 2014, Association-funded researcher, Prof Ammar Al-Chalabi based at King’s College London, and an international team of researchers have used a new approach to study the causes of MND. Under the leadership of Prof Neil Pearce, based at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, researchers have used a mathematical…
