This link—www.ninds.nih.gov/index.htm—is to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders, which has a very informative info page on the devastating post-polio ...

Optineurin (OPTN) mutations cause neurodegenerative diseases, including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and glaucoma. Although the ALS-associated E478G mutation in the UBAN domain of OPTN ...

Our clinic, the Motor Neuron Disease/ALS Clinic, is sponsored by the Muscular Dystrophy Association and ALS Association and provides a multidisciplinary clinic serving the needs of individuals with a ...

IT is assumed in the therapy of spinal-cord injuries that, because the paralyses all originated from a unified injury to the cord, the symptoms must also arise from a single source. Instead, it can be ...

There are a number of chronic neurological disorders that exhibit pseudobulbar or bulbar palsy (dysarthria and dysphagia) and in which mutism supervenes. In pseudobulbar palsy there are bilateral ...

With a history of spinal injury and having not undergone a surgical stabilization, a syrinx was suspected. A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) study of the patient's cervical and thoracic spine was ...

Mark and Beth Ann Schumacher consider themselves blessed. The Clear Lake couple has been showered with love and support in the weeks leading up to a benefit Sunday organized by their friends at Zion ...