A wearable robot that detects small arm motions and supports the shoulder helped ALS patients lift and carry things, a study ...

Measuring the electrical activity of muscles in the neck in ALS may be easier for some patients than using the tongue for ...

Certain subsets of microglia were found to be enriched in nervous system tissues from people with amyotrophic lateral ...

Inhibition of a cellular stress response may be a therapeutic target for ALS type 8 related to mutations in the VAPB gene, a ...

Thanks to a gift from her husband with ALS, columnist Kristin Neva takes a journey through joy and sorrow in years of ...

Guest writer Anita Newton discusses the difficult decisions that must be made as ALS progresses. None of them are easy.

Exposure to rhodamine B (RhB), a toxic fluorescent dye, causes neurodegeneration, symptoms that resemble ALS, and molecular ...

Far-field potentials (FFPs), nerve signals that can be measured on the skin, show promise as diagnostic and prognostic ...

Neuvivo and the FDA have agreed on a regulatory pathway for NP001 (sodium chlorite) to treat ALS, with Phase 3 testing ...

Completing a project in her backyard was satisfying for columnist Kristin Neva, whose work as an ALS caregiver is repetitive and ongoing.

In ALS, the loss of certain proteins turns off a gene called UNC13A that needs to stay active for nerve cell communication, a ...

Columnist Dagmar Munn feels as if she's finding her voice again as she picks up her speech exercises, and then some.