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Measuring cognitive and behavioural changes in MND

20 April 202320 April 2023

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

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Studentship success – next steps for Matthew Nolan

11 August 202011 August 2020

Reading Time: 5 minutesGuest researcher blog post written by Matthew Nolan. My name is Matthew, I’m currently a post-doctoral researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in

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Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research Research we fund

Panic at the (Cell’s) Depot

23 June 202023 June 2020

Reading Time: 5 minutesGuest researcher blog post written by Sam Bryce-Smith – sharing his research into changes in ‘post-code’ sequences of RNA, how it continues during the COVID-19

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Online tool to support CALM – Coping and Living with MND

29 May 202021 October 2020

Reading Time: 2 minutesGuest researcher blog post written by Cathryn Pinto: I am a PhD student at the University of Southampton and my PhD project (titled CALM –

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Students support MND research awareness with a conference

21 April 20204 June 2020

Reading Time: 5 minutesSoon after 8 medical students at the University of Southampton volunteered for the Motor Neurone Disease Association (with their local Southampton and Winchester branch) and

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Life of an MND researcher – part 2: PhD edition

26 June 20175 May 2022

Reading Time: 4 minutesEach year, the MND Association dedicates the month of June to raising MND awareness. This year, we focus on the eyes – in most people

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Causes and disease mechanisms MND Research Research we fund

Using iPSCs to understand why motor neurones lose their normal function in MND

28 June 20168 April 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutesResearchers can create human motor neurones exhibiting signs of MND in the lab by taking skin cells from a person living with MND and reprogramming

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Defining disease progression in MND from MRI ‘snapshots’

26 June 201629 April 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutesAlthough conventional brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans are often normal in people with MND, more sophisticated MRI techniques have shown changes in the structure

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Developing ultrasound imaging as a potential non-invasive diagnostic tool for MND

23 June 201629 April 2022

Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen diagnosing MND, it is important to look at the activity and impact of the motor neurones themselves – is the electrical message being carried

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Investigating C9orf72 and TDP-43 proteins in a fruitfly model of MND

17 June 201629 April 2022

Reading Time: 2 minutesBackground to C9orf72 toxicity We know that damage to C9orf72 (both the gene and the protein it makes) is a crucial step in why some

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