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2. ALS - Wikipedia

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   Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as motor neuron disease (MND) or (in the United States) Lou Gehrig's disease (LGD), is a rare, terminal neurodegenerative disorder that results in the progressive loss of both upper and lower motor neurons that normally control voluntary muscle contraction. [3]

3. Researchers Say This Test Can Predict ALS Patient ... - AOL

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   Researchers identified a new biomarker for predicting the clinical outcome of patients with ALS, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, through brain imaging. Researchers Say This Test Can Predict ALS ...

4. ALS and MND: Symptoms, causes, treatment - AOL

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   What you need to know about the signs and symptoms, causes, and treatment options for the rare neurological disease.

5. Excitotoxicity - Wikipedia

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   Excitotoxicity may be involved in cancers, spinal cord injury, stroke, traumatic brain injury, hearing loss (through noise overexposure or ototoxicity), and in neurodegenerative diseases of the central nervous system such as multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Parkinson's disease, alcoholism, alcohol ...

6. Motor neuron diseases - Wikipedia

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   Those that affect children tend to be inherited or familial, and their symptoms are either present at birth or appear before learning to walk. Those that affect adults tend to appear after age 40. [2] The clinical course depends on the specific disease, but most progress or worsen over the course of months. [6]

7. This ALS patient has a brain implant that translates his ...

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   Mark, a Pennsylvania grandfather with ALS, is participating in a human trial with Synchron and is one of the first patients to be implanted with a brain-computer interface with the company. - CNN

8. Cerebral atrophy - Wikipedia

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   Cerebral atrophy is a common feature of many of the diseases that affect the brain. [1] Atrophy of any tissue means a decrement in the size of the cell, which can be due to progressive loss of cytoplasmic proteins.

9. I thought I was too young to have ALS. Then I was diagnosed ...

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   Brooke Eby shares her Lou Gehrig’s disease, or ALS, diagnosis at age 33 and details her outlook on life after getting a terminal prognosis in her 30s. I thought I was too young to have ALS. Then ...