Clinicians, researchers, family members and patients have long known that people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) sometimes display cognitive and behavioral symptoms. However, only in the last decade or so has it been officially recognized that ALS, like some...
With no specific test to confirm ALS, diagnosis is a process that involves lab tests, neurological tests and observation. For patients, it can be a frustrating journey: On average, it takes about a year to get a confirmed ALS diagnosis.1 With familial (inherited) ALS,...
ALS is frustratingly difficult to diagnose. Consider these ALS misdiagnosis statistics:1 In about 10% to 15% of the cases, patients initially diagnosed with ALS actually have another disease or condition instead (false positive). Nearly 40% of people with ALS...
To understand how ALS research studies work, it’s important to understand what a “study” entails. That can be confusing. Sometimes, “clinical study” or “research study” and “clinical trial” are used synonymously. Sometimes they aren’t. For example, Good Clinical...
ALS– Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis–may be the best known and most common motor neuron disease (MND), but it’s not the only one. There are many motor neuron diseases similar to ALS. So what is a MND? Motor neuron diseases are a category of neurologic...
What is ALS? Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive, incurable neurodegenerative disease that leads to irreversible degeneration of motor neurons. Motor neurons are the nerve cells in the spinal cord and brain that initiate and control muscle movement....
