Alzheimer's disease is the most common and best known of the tauopathies, a set of neurodegenerative brain diseases caused by toxic tangles of the protein tau. A study by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine ...
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Researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago are looking at the possibility that gastroenterological changes could be an early warning sign for Lou Gehrig's disease. Their research in animal models also shows a promising ...
Mar 18, 2022
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Immune cells could help predict the prognosis of patients with the rare neurological disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), says a study published today in eLife.
Mar 15, 2022
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Do you ever have a muscle that seems to have a mind of its own, causing an uncontrollable twitch or spasm in your eyelid, leg or other part of your body? If so, you're in good company.
Mar 8, 2022
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A new paper in Annals of Neurology describes the approach, structure, and launch of the HEALEY ALS Platform Trial—the first platform trial for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)—designed to accelerate the development ...
Feb 28, 2022
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A new cloud-based data resource co-developed by scientists at Cedars-Sinai provides the research community with a comprehensive set of tools to help identify new subtypes of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a fatal neurological ...
Feb 3, 2022
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A clinical trial conducted by Prof. Alexandra Durr's team (Sorbonne University.AP-HP) at the Paris Brain Institute and the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital AP-HP shows that despite the hopes raised in recent years, riluzole ...
Jan 19, 2022
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Scientists at the Francis Crick Institute have revealed harmful changes in supporting cells, called astrocytes, in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) in two publications in Brain and Genome Research.
Jan 19, 2022
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An international collaboration led by Flinders University has identified a potential biomarker for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Motor Neuron Disease (MND), providing a way to test the effectiveness of ...
Jan 13, 2022
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What if it were possible to decode the internal language of individuals deprived of the ability to express themselves? This is the objective of a team of neuroscientists from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the University ...
Jan 12, 2022
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