So You Did the Ice Bucket Challenge, Now What?
Along with 2.4 million other people, I shared a video of myself doing the ALS ice bucket challenge on Facebook in the summer of 2014. I excitedly watched ice bu...
Month: March 2017
Diagnosing and Dealing With ALS
A diagnosis of ALS is often accompanied by feelings of fear, frustration, sadness, and anger. Amyotropic lateral sclerosis (ALS) affects about 6,000 Americans e...
ALS, the Battle for the Nervous System
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), or Lou Gehrig’s disease, is a neurodegenerative disorder of motor neurons. Motor neurons are a type of nerve cell that stim...
Where Do We Draw the Line on Research?
Just three weeks ago, I purchased A Brief History of Time, by Stephen Hawking, and less than two weeks ago, I finished the book. From what I hear, Stephen Hawki...
The Singularity of Hawking’s ALS
Stephen Hawking’s life with ALS shows how much the disease varies, and how little we still know about it. When Hawking came down with ALS in 1963, Cambridge Uni...
5 Ways to Reduce Your Anxiety
Stress and anxiety are normal aspects of life. They are biological safety mechanisms that have been put in place to protect humans from dangers that threaten li...