Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis Basic description: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis‚ or ALS‚ is a disease of the nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord that control voluntary muscle movement. ALS is also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease or motor neurone disease in some British Commonwealth countries. It is a debilitating disease with rapidly progressive weakness‚ breaking down of the muscles‚ muscle spasticity‚ difficulty speaking‚ difficulty swallowing‚ and decline in breathing ability. ALS is
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History of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis ( Greek origin "A" means know‚ "Myo" refers to muscle‚ "Trophic" means nourishment ["No muscle nourishment"] with abbreviation of ALS) is a disease that effects the nervous and muscular system of the body. It was first studied in 1869 by Jean- Martin Charcot who was a French neurologist. In 1939 it gained international and national attention thanks to a man named Lou Gehrig. Gehrig was a baseball player for the New Year Yankees
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Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects the brain and spinal cord. Coming from Greek language Amyotrophic simply means no muscle nourishment (alsa.org). Lateral is the anatomical identification along the spinal cord and as the disease progresses‚ it eventually leads to sclerosis which is hardening of the region along the spinal cord. ALS was first discovered in 1869 by a famous French neurologist named Jean- Martin Charcot‚ ALS was originally named
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Introduction Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a fast progressing‚ degenerative‚ neurological disease. The disease is marked by weakness‚ atrophy and paralysis of the body’s voluntary muscles as a result of motor neuron degeneration and death (Wijesekera & Leigh‚ 2009). ALS gets its name from Greek origin: Amyotrophic- “A” meaning without‚ “myo” meaning muscle‚ “trophic” meaning nourishment‚ literally translated this term means “without muscle nourishment”. “Lateral Sclerosis” refers to the
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Assessment Essay Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis(ALS) is a specific disorder that involves the death of neurons that control voluntary muscles. ALS is characterized by stiff muscles‚ muscle twitching and gradually working weakness due to muscles decreasing in size. Also‚ Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis results in a difficulty speaking‚ swelling‚ and eventually not being able to breath on your Niown. ALS affects the brain and spinal chord muscles which leads to death or no control over these voluntary
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ALS Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) or Lou Gherig’s is a neuromuscular disease‚ being that it affects the nerves and the muscles. It damages motor neurons in the spine and some in the brain. ALS is considered hereditary but is not in all cases. 90% of patients suffer from SALS‚ or sporadic ALS and is not hereditary directly. Approximately 10% of patients are diagnosed with familial ALS (FALS) which is passed down from parents. Family history is used to distinguish between the two‚ if one or
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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis‚ usually referred to as ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease‚ is a condition that continually deteriorates motor neurons in the brain and spinal cord. Motor neurons are nerve cells that control muscle movements. When these nerves fail‚ the muscles they are supposed to communicate with don’t receive the full messages that are being carried from the brain or spinal cord‚ causing the muscles to stop working properly. Early symptoms of this disease include cramping or twitching of
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Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis James Smith University of Southern Mississippi Dr. Jennifer Walker BSC 370 Genetics‚ Spring 2010 Imagine being not able to move your muscles freely everyday‚ and that process has to coordinate between the brain and the spinal cord to tell the muscles to move. However‚ when this coordination is challenged and can not convey signals‚ the results are no muscle movement. At first‚ muscles in the hands‚ arms‚ and legs feel weak. The hands and feet twitch
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Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis‚ also called ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease‚ is a genetic disease that affects the nerve cells that control muscle movement. ALS is a unique disease by the symptoms it causes when it is just beginning‚ the way it effects the people who have it‚ the people who are effected by it‚ and the way it is passed down from generation to generation in families. The symptoms of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis are easy to overlook. The first symptoms of
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In the western world‚ Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is the third most common neurodegenerative disease‚ characterised by gradual paralysis that leads to death from respiratory failure. (Renton‚ et al.‚ 2011). Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD)‚ the second most common cause of young onset dementia‚ is categorised by the degeneration of the frontal temporal lobes in the brain which lead to personality and behavioural changes. (Fratta‚ et al.‚ 2012). An increasing consensus proposes that ALS and FTD
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