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Correcting the early damage seen in MND

Sara Bolton

Reading Time: 2 minutes Previous research in humans and zebrafish has shown that before symptoms arise in MND, early changes occur in the interneurones. This type of nerve cell provide a link between the upper and lower motor neurones in the brain and spinal cord. The job of one type of interneurone (called inhibitory interneurones) is to apply the…

A view from the President

Dr Samantha Price1 Comment

Reading Time: 3 minutes After we posted yesterday’s blog (Thursday 10 October) about Giovanna Mallucci’s research in Leicester, we received a report on the story from the President of the MND Association, Prof Colin Blakemore. The researchers identified a key pathway that might be a turning point in the search for effective treatments for many types of neurodegenerative disease and we…