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  2. Motor neuron diseases - Wikipedia

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    Motor neuron disease can affect either upper motor neurons (UMNs) or lower motor neurons (LMNs). Motor neuron disease describes a collection of clinical disorders, characterized by progressive muscle weakness and the degeneration of the motor neuron on electrophysiological testing. The term "motor neuron disease" has varying meanings in ...

  3. Progressive bulbar palsy - Wikipedia

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    It belongs to a group of disorders known as motor neuron diseases. [1] PBP is a disease that attacks the nerves supplying the bulbar muscles. These disorders are characterized by the degeneration of motor neurons in the cerebral cortex , spinal cord , brain stem , and pyramidal tracts .

  4. Category:Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis - Wikipedia

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    Articles relating to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as motor neurone disease (MND) or Lou Gehrig's disease. It is a specific disease which causes the death of neurons controlling voluntary muscles. ALS is characterized by stiff muscles, muscle twitching, and gradually worsening weakness due to muscles decreasing in size.

  5. Doddie Weir: What is motor neurone disease? - AOL

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    Scottish rugby international Doddie Weir has died at the age of 52 after being diagnosed with motor neurone disease (MND) in December 2016. Weir was among several players diagnosed with the ...

  6. ALS - Wikipedia

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    ALS is the most common motor neuron disease in adults and the third most common neurodegenerative disease [61] after Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. [121] Worldwide the number of people who develop ALS yearly is estimated to be 1.9 people per 100,000 per year, while the number of people who have ALS at any given time is estimated ...

  7. Progressive muscular atrophy - Wikipedia

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    Progressive muscular atrophy (PMA), also called Duchenne–Aran disease and Duchenne–Aran muscular atrophy, is a disorder characterised by the degeneration of lower motor neurons, resulting in generalised, progressive loss of muscle function.

  8. Spinal muscular atrophy - Wikipedia

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    Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a rare neuromuscular disorder that results in the loss of motor neurons and progressive muscle wasting. [3] [4] [5] It is usually diagnosed in infancy or early childhood and if left untreated it is the most common genetic cause of infant death. [6]

  9. Distal hereditary motor neuronopathies - Wikipedia

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    Distal hereditary motor neuronopathies (distal HMN, dHMN), sometimes also called distal hereditary motor neuropathies, are a genetically and clinically heterogeneous group of motor neuron diseases that result from genetic mutations in various genes and are characterized by degeneration and loss of motor neuron cells in the anterior horn of the spinal cord and subsequent muscle atrophy.