ALS is a progressive disease, meaning it worsens over time. Although there is no cure for ALS, medications and therapies are available to help manage the symptoms, slow the disease course, and prolong ...
ALS is a debilitating paralytic disease characterized as the death of upper and lower motor neurons. Fortunately, ALS is relatively rare, with an incidence rate of 1.6 per 100,000 adults, resulting in ...
A new Northwestern University study using patient nervous tissue and lab-grown human neurons has uncovered how a key disease protein, TDP-43, drives overactive nerve cells in the neurodegenerative ...