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Deaths from motor neuron disease in the United States (3 C, 149 P) Pages in category "Deaths from motor neuron disease" The following 141 pages are in this category, out of 141 total.
Pages in category "Deaths from motor neuron disease in the United States" The following 149 pages are in this category, out of 149 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Motor neuron diseases affect both children and adults. [5] While each motor neuron disease affects patients differently, they all cause movement-related symptoms, mainly muscle weakness. [6] Most of these diseases seem to occur randomly without known causes, but some forms are inherited. [2]
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 ...
Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, whose ALS was diagnosed in 1963, had the disease for 55 years, the longest recorded time one had the disease. He died at the age of 76 in 2018. The 11th century monk Hermann of Reichenau had a lifelong disease that is considered likely to have been ALS. This would make him one of the earliest known patients of ...
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.
Deaths from Parkinson's disease in the United States (8 C, 219 P) Pages in category "Neurological disease deaths in the United States" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total.
Those who have died as a result of the disease are categorised in the subcategory Category:Deaths from motor neuron disease. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.