ALLMedicine™ Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Center

Aug 15th, 2022 - This study evaluated a novel control method for patients unable to independently control powered wheelchairs. Patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis often require a wheelchair but struggle with sufficient hand dexterity required for joystick ...

Aug 15th, 2022 - Widespread appreciation that neuroplasticity is an essential feature of the neural system controlling breathing has emerged only in recent years. In this chapter, we focus on respiratory motor plasticity, with emphasis on the phrenic motor system....

Aug 14th, 2022 - The genetics of an individual is a crucial factor in understanding the risk of developing the neurodegenerative disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). There is still a large proportion of the heritability of ALS, particularly in sporadic cas...

Aug 14th, 2022 - Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurodegenerative disorder with heterogeneous aetiology and a complex genetic background. Effective therapies are therefore likely to act on convergent pathways such as dysregulated energy metabolism,...

Aug 12th, 2022 - This is a Phase 2a, multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, biomarker-driven clinical trial evaluating the safety, tolerability, and biological effect of LAM-002A in approximately 12 adults with C9ORF72-associated ALS (C9ALS). I...

Jan 9th, 2019 - Universally established comprehensive clinical bulbar scales objectively assessing disease progression in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) are currently lacking. The goal of this working group project is to design a best practice set of provisi...

Dec 25th, 2017 - Neurological diseases are frequently associated with swallowing disorders and malnutrition. Moreover, patients with neurological diseases are at increased risk of micronutrient deficiency and dehydration. On the other hand, nutritional factors may...

Oct 14th, 2009 - To systematically review evidence bearing on the management of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The authors analyzed studies from 1998 to 2007 to update the 1999 practice parameter. Topics covered in this section include breaking...

Aug 12th, 2022 - This is a Phase 2a, multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, biomarker-driven clinical trial evaluating the safety, tolerability, and biological effect of LAM-002A in approximately 12 adults with C9ORF72-associated ALS (C9ALS). I...

Aug 11th, 2022 - Recent evidence supports the disruption of the ubiquitin-proteasome-system and autophagy as central events in ALS. ALS is characterized by the presence of misfolded proteins prone to oligomerize into aggregates, which exert a toxic effect by affec...

Aug 11th, 2022 - The study population will consist of subjects with a diagnosis of probable laboratory-supported, probable, or definite ALS, as defined by El Escorial Revised ALS diagnostic criteria; with ALS symptom onset within 48 months; and with percent predic...

Aug 11th, 2022 - Participants will be randomized to one of three doses of enoxacin (200, 400, or 600mg twice daily) for 30 days. On day 1, 7, 14, 21, and 30 of treatment and at a follow-up visit 14 days after the last dose, participants will be assessed for safety...

Aug 9th, 2022 - This is an open label pilot study, where patients (n=10) with ALS will take a daily nutritional supplement for 8 months. After documenting the ALS symptom history at baseline, the disease severity, and the motor muscles functions will be assessed ...

Aug 1st, 2022 - Editor’s note: Readers’ Forum is a department for correspondence from readers that is not in response to articles published in Current Psychiatry. All submissions to Readers’ Forum undergo peer review and are subject to editing for length and styl.

Jul 27th, 2022 - (Reuters) -Biogen Inc's treatment for a rare type of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) was accepted for review by the U.S. health regulator, weeks after follow-up analyses of data from a failed late-stage study suggested the drug was likely to w...

Jul 21st, 2022 - The Weekend That I graduated from law school, my mother told me that she had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease, a neurological disease for which there is currently no cure. As I recalled in a recent essay, I ...

Jul 6th, 2022 - (Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will reconvene a meeting of its outside experts to review Amylyx Pharmaceuticals' application for its amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) treatment, the company said on Tuesday. A panel of outside a...

Jun 24th, 2022 - The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has unveiled a 5-year strategy aimed at improving and extending the lives of people with rare neurodegenerative diseases. The agency's Action Plan for Rare Neurodegenerative Diseases including Amyotrophic ...