“It doesn’t take very much practice either.” A new technology described in the paper published online on July 26 in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, might allow people who have almost completely lost the

What took place this past month at Hadassah Hospital’s Department of Neurology was not expected even by the most senior neurologists. An ALS patient- a chronic disease with no known cure that causes a slow

Electrical stimulation, brain “cooling” and drug-delivery devices are all being developed as antiseizure tools Epilepsy affects some 2.7 million Americans—more than Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig’s disease) combined. More than

“From this work it appears that cisplatin is a promising lead compound for the rational design of ALS treatments,” A long-used anti-cancer drug could be a starting point to develop new treatments for the incurable

You can significantly delay the onslaught of the symptoms and improve survival   Irish researchers have made a major breakthrough in the treatment of the deadly motor neuron disease, or Lou Gehrig’s disease, as it

UCSD scientists announced last week that a metabolism-boosting protein, PCG-1?, may help restore cell function in individuals afflicted by Lou Gehrig’s Disease. Lou Gehrig’s disease, or Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis is a progressive, fatal, adult-onset disease

The iBrain is part of a new generation of portable neural devices Already surrounded by machines that allow him, painstakingly, to communicate, the physicist Stephen Hawking last summer donned what looked like a rakish black

Intuary, a mobile app startup, recently launched its first app, called Verbally, which is designed to bring speech to those without. Verbally is an augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) solution built for the more than