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Featured Q&A: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis by Lisa E. L. Patient Expert

Posted Thu 19 Nov 2009 10:02pm it: Lisa’s answer: Approximately 10% of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) cases are familial. As you know, ALS is a neurodegenerative disorder in which motor neurons (nerve cells... Resources: The ALS Association, ALS Connection Patient Registry, ALS Canada’s list of web resources Technorati Tags: als, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, lou gehrig’s disease Read on »

What do the words "amyotrophic lateral sclerosis" mean? by Jeremy Posted Tue 10 Nov 2009 10:03pm Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is the most common form of progressive motor neurone disease, and is characterised by the almost relentless loss of both upper...”. This is a distinct clinical feature of ALS, and is due to the denervation of muscle fibres that occurs as the motor neurones die away. Then there’s the “lateral sclerosis bit”. ALS Read on »

Headliners: Neurodegenerative Disease: Inflammatory Enzyme Modulates Motor Neuron Damage in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis by Environmental Health Posted Thu 30 Nov 2006 9:00pm Headliners: Neurodegenerative Disease: Inflammatory Enzyme Modulates Motor Neuron Damage in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis... to Jerry Phelps Citation: Phelps J 2006. Headliners: Neurodegenerative Disease: Inflammatory Enzyme Modulates Motor Neuron Damage in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Read on »

MOTOR NEURONS/AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS/LOU GEHRIG'S DISEASE/LYME DISEASE by Joanne60 Posted Fri 06 Aug 2010 4:33am Page Severe cases of Lyme disease can be misdiagnosed as ALS, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease... present on his story of recovery but about his findings after he opened a clinic specialising in treating Multiple Sclerosis patients, Motor Neurons patients/Amyotrophic Lateral Read on »

Study Says Brain Trauma Can Mimic Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (Lou Gehrig’s disease, ALS) by Bob DeMarco Patient Expert

Posted Tue 17 Aug 2010 8:51pm By Max Wallack Alzheimer's Reading Room Did Lou Gehrig Have Lou Gehrig’s Disease? For the past two weeks, things have been very exciting at Boston University’s Alzheimer’s Disease Center. I know I am very privileged to be able to be here at a time when important findings are reached. In a paper to be published tomorrow in the Jo ... Read on »

HLA-DRB1(*)15 allele influences the later course of relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis by stuart Patient Expert

Posted Wed 14 Jan 2009 8:24pm HLA-DRB1(*)15 allele influences the later course of relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis. Cournu-Rebeix I, Génin E, Leray E, Babron MC, Cohen J, Gout C, Alizadeh M... works so far have aimed at finding genes associated with multiple sclerosis (MS) susceptibility. Very few studies have attempted to correlate disease features with DNA variants Read on »

TICKBITE-LYME DISEASE-MOTOR NEURONS, PARKINSON'S, MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS by Joanne60 Posted Sun 15 Aug 2010 12:43am given him a diagnosis of ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), a nerve disease with fatal outcome. Foreign experts believe he has an active Borrelia infection in the body... where it is established that Borrelia in rare cases can cause an "illness resembling amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. - When the experts of the Respondent now admits that Borrelia Read on »

The Misdiagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis, and the Mystery of Me… by Wheelchair Kamikaze Patient Expert

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Posted Tue 22 Feb 2011 11:48pm be mistaken for MS, including Lyme Disease, Hughes Syndrome, Primary Lateral Sclerosis, Neuromyelitis Optica, Vitamin B12 Deficiency, and Lupus, to name a few. The paper... to look for patients with Clinically Definite Multiple Sclerosis (more on my experience in the study later). The NIH undertook this study because they had found that the rate Read on »

Depression and Multiple Sclerosis - MS and Depression - Mental Health Symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis by Rudy S. Patient Expert

Posted Mon 25 Aug 2008 9:07pm

6 Comments This article is a general overview of depression as it relates to multiple sclerosis Link: Depression and Multiple Sclerosis - MS and Depression - Mental Health Symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis . Depression and multiple sclerosis have a complicated relationship, since one can aggravate the other. Also, depression has many of the same symptoms as MS Read on »

Re-emergence of anti-topoisomerase I antibody with exacerbated development of skin sclerosis in a patient with systemic sclerosi by Jan Posted Mon 01 Feb 2010 12:00am was diagnosed as having diffuse cutaneous systemic sclerosis based on the skin sclerosis of her extremities and trunk and assessed by the modified Rodnan skin score method. Her anti–topoisomerase I antibody (anti–topo I) level was 78.1 index (normal range, ≤16 index). With oral prednisolone treatment, her skin sclerosis gradually improved and disappeared. In parallel Read on »