The scientist Stephen Hawking lived with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), the most common type of motor neuron disease, ...

A new study from Sweden links long-term air pollution exposure to higher risk of motor neurone disease and faster progression ...

Air pollution was associated with risk for developing motor neuron disease such as ALS and likely contributes to an ...

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The human brain contains billions of connected neurons that collectively support different mental functions, including the ...

The test was developed by researchers at the US-based not-for-profit Brain Chemistry Labs, who analysed 788 blood samples – roughly half from patients with the disease and half from people without it.

A 75-year-old woman with motor neurone disease had to wait nearly 30 hours for an ambulance following a fall at her home in Portadown on Saturday evening. After the fall, Eileen O'Rourke's pain ...

Professional soccer players and American football stars are at much greater risk of developing dementia. What can we do to help them? If you're a football player, there's nothing quite like the rush ...

An estimated 60% of patients with Alzheimer's disease develop epilepsy or subclinical epileptiform activity over the course of the disease. New-onset seizures in cognitively healthy adults also ...