CHICAGO (Reuters) - Scientists have discovered a gene responsible for more than a third of inherited cases of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, and a related brain ...

People with rare genetic variants linked to degenerative brain disorders like Parkinson's disease are at increased risk of developing ALS, a new study finds. Further, having these genetic variants ...

Researchers have found a new disease-causing mutation in people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in a small region of Spain. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as motor neuron disease, ...

Motor neuron diseases, such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP), share physical similarities but have been largely viewed as genetically distinct. However, ...

In some rare cases, people who are diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) have a partial or total recovery from what is usually a fatal disorder. Scientists wanted to know more about these ...

People with rare genetic variants that are linked to Parkinson’s disease and other neurodegenerative disorders have a higher risk for developing amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also called Lou ...

Researchers from the Neuromuscular Diseases Group and the Dementia Neurobiology Group of the Sant Pau Research Institute (IR Sant Pau) and the Memory Unit of the Sant Pau Hospital, led by neurologist ...

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a serious and usually fatal neurodegenerative disorder in which motor neurons deteriorate and die. The disease causes a loss of movement that eventually affects ...

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) - which you may know as the disease that affected Stephen Hawking - is a fatal neurodegenerative disease that causes progressive muscle weakness. A research team at ...

It may be time to rethink certain genetic mutations associated with two devastating neurodegenerative disorders—amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD)—according to a new ...