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
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
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
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) - 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
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) - WebMD What Is ALS? 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
What is ALS - The ALS Association - web. alsa. org Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord Motor neurons reach from the brain to the spinal cord and from the spinal cord to the muscles throughout the body
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