The latest in motor neurone disease

Motor neurone disease is a neurodegenerative disease, predominantly affecting the motor neurones. The number of people living with MND in the UK is 7,000 and 30,000 in the US, with an average age of onset at about 55 years. It is characterised by progressive weakness and wasting of limb, bulbar and respiratory muscles due to selective degeneration of both upper motor neurones and lower motor neurones. Motor neurone disease (MND), also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)/Lou Gehrig’s disease in the US and La Maladie de Charcot in France, is a rapidly progressive and ultimately fatal neurodegenerative disease. It was