- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) - Symptoms and causes
Also known as ALS, the disease leads to muscle weakness and gets worse over time ALS often begins with muscle twitching and weakness in an arm or leg, trouble swallowing, or slurred speech
- ALS - Wikipedia
ALS genes identified to date explain the cause of about 70% of familial ALS and about 15% of sporadic ALS Overall, first-degree relatives of an individual with ALS have a ~1% risk of developing ALS themselves
- What is ALS? - Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis | The ALS Association
ALS, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord There is no cure for ALS yet
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) - Johns Hopkins Medicine
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) What is ALS? Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal type of motor neuron disease It causes progressive degeneration of nerve cells in the spinal cord and brain It's often called Lou Gehrig disease after a famous baseball player who died from the disease
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) | National Institute of . . .
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), formerly known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease, is a neurological disease that affects motor neurons—those nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord that control voluntary muscle movement
- About Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) | National ALS Registry | CDC
ALS also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, is a motor neuron disease ALS is rare, though slightly more common in men than women The disease affects the nerve cells in both the upper and lower parts of the body It causes the muscles to become weak and leads to paralysis No one knows what causes most cases of ALS
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) - WebMD
ALS is a disease that causes motor neurons, the nerve cells that send messages from your brain to your spinal cord and then to your muscles, to break down and die These motor neurons control all
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) - Harvard Health
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) causes a slow degeneration of nerve cells (called motor neurons) that control muscle movements As a result, people with ALS gradually lose the ability to control their muscles Fortunately, their capacity to think and remember things usually is not affected
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