Thursday 20 November 2014

Origin of Lou Gehrig's Disease Traced to Brain's Motor Neurons

Muscle-controlling nerve cells in the brain are damaged much earlier than previously thought, in Lou Gehrig's disease, also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, as revealed in a research from the Cedars-Sinai Board of Governors Regenerative Medicine Institute. The findings, published in the Nov. 12 emJournal of Neuroscience/em, could shift researchers' attention from the spinal cord to the brain's motor cortex as the disease's initial point of dysfunction. "In ...

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