Struggling to Hold On: The ALS Story
You’re Not YOU Picture this: You are 29 years old, in shape, happily married, thinking of children, an avid baker, and enjoying playing the piano in the e...
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The Mystery of ALS: Motor Neurons
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a disease surrounded by a lot of mystery and frustration as the mechanisms of the disease are not fully understood, and t...
Heritability of ALS
What is ALS? Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects the motor neurons in the brain and the spinal cord. As ...
ALS: More Than Just an Ice Bucket Challenge
Recently ALS has been on the radar of many because of something called the ALS ice bucket challenge. The challenge composes of people dumping a bucket of ice on...
Where does Lou Gehrig's Disease come from?
This week we explored the pathways leading to neuron cell death which can lead to various diseases including Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, and Amyot...