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ALS’s ‘Lateral Sclerosis’ Revealed as a Dying-Back Degeneration of Upper Motor Neuron Axons

A clinical-neuropathological study shows that the lateral sclerosis of ALS reflects a length-dependent dying-back ...
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New ALS Classification Reveals That Motor Neuron Type, Not Onset Site, Drives Survival

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis has always been a disease of contradictions. Two patients of the same age, diagnosed on the same day, with symptoms that began in the same part of the body, can follow ...
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Cionic Real-World Evidence Study Examines Quality of Life Across Upper Motor Neuron Conditions

The TRANSFORM study is designed to follow 1,000 adults with multiple sclerosis, stroke, spinal cord injury, cerebral palsy, and other conditions over 12 months, building a dataset of quality-of-life ...
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Battle against the body's own nerves: How Motor Neurone Disease alters lives

Footballer Ezekiel Otuoma and his wife Rachael Otuoma. Otuoma died after a long battle with Motor Neurone Disease (MND). [File, Standard] Former AFC Leopards winger Ezekiel Otuoma passed away at the ...
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Lower Motor Neuron (LMN)

Areflexic, or flaccid, bladder and bowels occur when the spinal cord injury is low enough to damage the cauda equina and alpha motor neurons. It also occurs in all spinal cord injury patients during ...