ALS Patients May Benefit Most from Tailored Brain–Computer Interface Programs
Cognitive impairment may present an obstacle for patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) using brain-computer interface devices, according to a…
Articles by Magdalena Kegel
ALS Researchers Find Way to Deliver Genes Selectively to Brain Motor Neurons
Researchers have, for the first time, managed to selectively alter gene expression in brain motor neurons of mice modeling amyotrophic…
ALS Stem Cell Therapy Shows Safety and Efficacy in Early Clinical Trials
Biopharmaceutical company Neuralstem presented new and potentially promising results from its clinical investigations of NSI-566 — human spinal cord-derived neural stem cells for…
ALS, Gulf War Illness Caused by Toxic Exposures, Report Says
A report from the Boston University School of Public Health shows that Gulf War Illness is a result of…
9 ALS Researchers Win US Gov’t Award for Work Toward New Treatments
The U.S. Department of Defense announced that nine researchers are the winners of the 2015 ALS Research Program (ALSRP), which aims to improve…
New ALS Group’s Goal: Finding a New Treatment by 2020
Entrepreneur Kevin Gosnell announced the launch of ALS ONE – a partner organization of the ALS Association and ALS Finding…
ALS Severity, Duration May Be Linked to Glutamate Toxicity
The ratio of N-acetyl aspartate (NAA) to glutamate is related to disease duration in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a…
ALS Researchers Call for Development of ALS Biomarker Consortium
A panel of leading amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) researchers recently published a review study, supported by the ALS Association,…
ALS Stem Cell Therapy Seen to Benefit Patients in First Round of Clinical Tests
A report in the journal JAMA Neurology revealed positive findings from the first Phase 1/2 clinical trial and the…
Neuronal Degeneration Linked to Decline in a Synaptic Protein
University of Bern researchers have discovered that the synaptic protein Homer-3 is linked to the death of Purkinje motor neurons in Spinocerebellar…