We used Big Five Inventory data obtained from an online questionnaire looking for risk factors for ALS to investigate personality traits in large numbers of people with ALS and controls.Jane A. Parkin KullmannThe Stacey Motor Neuron Disease LaboratorySusan Hayes...
Minnesota woman's nonprofit helps connect people with ALSOne Minnesota woman is helping people across the country impacted by a fatal neurodegenerative disease make meaningful connections.19m ago embed code copied Where to Watch Android Android TV Apple TV Fire Tablet Fire TV iOS LG TV Pluto TV...
Southfield (CW50) - ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig Disease, is clinically defined as a nervous system disease that weakens muscles and eventually destroys physical function. Patients are ultimately unable to speak, swallow, walk and breathe. The cause is unknown. Medication and therapy can ...
A:We don't know yet. Some people with ALS have been found to have the gene that causes the disease, but it accounts for only 5 to 10 percent of all ALS patients. In Korea, the proportion of people with ALS caused by genetic mutations is also low compared to other countries, at less...
What might happen to people diagnosed with ALS? A. Losing the ability to thhak, and speak normally. B. Maintaining a normal life by taking medicines. C. Dying within months of a confirmed diagnosis D. Needing external assistance to survive in the end.26. Why is Alzheimer's disease ...
Almost all people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) experience a motor speech disorder, such as dysarthria, as the disease progresses. At some point, 80 to 95% of people with ALS are unable to meet their daily communication needs using natural speech. Unfortunately, once intelligibility beg...
People with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) who choose tracheostomy demonstrate a strong and mostly consistent attachment to life from the point of diagnosis. It is unclear if these patients also use medical and health services to a greater degree than patients who decide against tracheostomy. In...
We conducted a cross-sectional study among 40 ALS caregivers, assessing general worries, burden of care, depression, anxiety, perception of social support, and patients' severity of disease. Caregiver burden, depression, and anxiety were positively related with each other, and all these variables ...
Update on alsuntangled; A global scientific effort to investigate alternative and off-label treatment options for patients with ALS Background Parkinson's Disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder of the central nervous system. Motor symptoms are the focus of pha... R Bed...
Stephen Hawking – Physicist (ALS) What disability did Stephen Hawking have? The famous Physicist was diagnosed with ALS in 1963. Hawking taking a zero-gravity flight in a reduced-gravity aircraft, April 2007 (image source:Wikipedia Public Domain) ...