Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis – ALS for short – is a rare and incurable nerve disease. The disease became the focus of public attention mainly due to the physicist Stephen Hawking, who died in March 2018. In ALS, the motor neurons in the brain and spinal cord die off continuously. Motoneurons are nerve cells that are […]
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, more commonly known as ALS or motor neurone disease, is a neurodegenerative disease that causes the depletion of the motor neurons in the body, i.e the neurons that are responsible for muscle movement. Although the average life expectancy is around 2-5 years after the initial diagnosis, (this is not the case for […]
