A Jacksonville woman's experience caring for her husband with ALS has formed a foundation to help other families fighting ...

Stone will be joining Dane — whom she has been friends with "for a long time" — on the long-awaited third season of the HBO ...

Long-term exposure to sulfur dioxide, an air pollutant generated by the burning of fossil fuels, increases the risk of ALS, a ...

It may be time to rethink certain genetic mutations associated with two devastating neurodegenerative disorders—amyotrophic ...

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that causes the gradual loss of motor neurons in the brain and spinal cord, leading to muscle weakness, paralysis, and ...

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

Scientists have identified a basic biological mechanism that kills neurons in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and in a related genetic disorder, frontotemporal dementia (FTD), found in some ...

Researchers have tied mutations in a gene that causes amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and other neurodegenerative disorders to the toxic buildup of certain proteins and related molecules in ...

The pathophysiological processes underlying onset and progression of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) remain poorly understood. Unlike conventional imaging techniques, which provide information ...

Approximately 90% of persons with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) have the sporadic form, which may be caused by the interaction of multiple environmental factors and previously unknown genes. ...

To the Editor: In their review of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) Rowland and Shneider (May 31 issue)1 state that “the selective vulnerability of motor neurons” to glutamate may be ...