A patient with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) has become the first person in the world to control an iPad entirely by thought, according to neurotech company Synchron.

Certain subsets of microglia were found to be enriched in nervous system tissues from people with amyotrophic lateral ...

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), known as Lou Gehrig's disease, is an incurable neurological disorder affecting motor ...

Neurologist and Duke ALS Clinic Director Richard Bedlack “stitches strength” for his patients, showing the powers of hope.

Inhibition of a cellular stress response may be a therapeutic target for ALS type 8 related to mutations in the VAPB gene, a ...

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), known as Lou Gehrig's disease, is an incurable neurological disorder affecting motor ...

Dampening the integrated stress response (IRS) in motor neurons may be a valid therapeutic approach in patients with an inherited form of ALS.

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a devastating neurodegenerative disease that slowly robs people of their ability to move, speak, swallow, and even breathe.

Apathy and depression are the most prevalent neuropsychiatric symptoms in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).1-3 Although ...

A recent study by Associate Professor Takehisa Hirayama and Professor Osamu Kano from the Department of Neurology at Toho ...

Some patients who’ve suffered from oral cancers or neurological diseases like ALS are starting to use the technology to regain natural voices that they lost.