Motor Neuron Disease
Diseases characterized by a selective degeneration of the motor neurons of the spinal cord, brainstem, or motor cortex. Clinical subtypes are distinguished by the major site of degeneration.
Alternate Names : Lou Gehrig's disease, ALS, Upper and lower motor neuron disease, Motor neuron disease
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Motor neuron diseases - for unknown or genetic reasons, the lower (and sometimes also the upper) motor neurons gradually die.
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Motor neuron diseases are progressive chronic diseases of the nerves that come from the spinal cord responsible for supplying electrical stimulation to the muscles. This stimulation is necessary for the movement of body parts.
Motor neuron disease linked to dementia seems to be even more aggressive. People with this form of the disease usually die within 3 years of the first symptoms.
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In motor neuron disease (MND) there is relentless and unexplained destruction of lower and upper motor nerve fibres in the brain and spinal cord, leading to progressive weakness of muscles.
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Lou Gehrig disease
Motor neuron disease (in the United Kingdom)
Maladie de Charcot disease (after the physician that first described it in the 1870s)
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Adult progressive spinal muscular atrophy, Aran Duchenne type: A group of inherited motor neuron diseases involving progressive muscle weakness, wasting and paralysis due to degeneration of motor neurons in the spinal cord.
Central Motor Neuron Disease
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ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis): A classic motor neuron disease. Motor neuron diseases are progressive chronic diseases of the nerves that come from the spinal cord responsible for supplying electrical stimulation to the muscles.
Clinical features of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and other forms of motor neuron disease
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Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis; Motor Neuron Disease
Definition
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a rare, progressive neurological disorder in which nerves that control the body's muscle activity deteriorate (degenerate).
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is one of a group of disorders known as motor neuron diseases.
Miller RG, Mitchell JD, Lyon M, et al; Riluzole for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)/motor neuron disease (MND). Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2007 Jan 24;(1):CD001447. [abstract] ...
The disease belongs to a group of disorders known as motor neuron diseases, which are characterized by the gradual degeneration and death of motor neurons.
Lou Gehrig disease: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a classic motor neuron disease.
Lou Gehrig's disease; ALS; Upper and lower motor neuron disease; Motor neuron disease
Causes, incidence, and risk factors
In about 10% of cases, ALS is caused by a genetic defect. In the remaining cases, the cause is unknown.
Neuromuscular Diseases - A general term encompassing lower MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; and certain MUSCULAR DISEASES.
Brown, Robert H. "The motor neuron diseases." In Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 14th ed., edited by Anthony S. Fauci, et al. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1998, pp. 2368-2372.
Feldman EL. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and other motor neuron diseases. In: Goldman L, Ausiello D, eds. Cecil Medicine. 23rd ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2007:chap. 435.
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), or Motor Neuron Disease
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CAUSES"Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is the most common motor neuron disease, resulting in muscular atrophy.
They include autoimmune diseases, cancer, compression/trauma, diabetes, side-effects of drugs and toxic substances, motor neuron diseases, nutritional deficiencies and infectious diseases.
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Australians and the English call the condition the motor neuron disease (MND). In France, ALS is known as the maladie de Charcot, derived from Jean-Martin Charcot, the first doctor to write about the problem in 1869.
Fazio-Londe disease, also called progressive bulbar palsy of childhood,[1][2] is an inherited motor neuron disease found in children and young adults.
Patients with spinal accessory nerve palsy may exhibit signs of lower motor neuron disease such as diminished muscle mass (atrophy) and fasciculations of the sternocleidomastoid and trapezius muscles.
When the typical behavioral problems of frontotemporal dementia occur with the signs and symptoms of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease), the condition is frontotemporal dementia with motor neuron disease (FTD/MND).
lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive, fatal neurological disease affecting as many as 20,000 Americans with 5,000 new cases occurring in the United States each year. The disorder belongs to a class of disorders known as motor neuron diseases.
is a serious neurological disease that causes muscle weakness, disability and eventually death. ALS is often called Lou Gehrig's disease, after the famous baseball player who was diagnosed with it in 1939. In the U.S., ALS and motor neuron disease ...
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 See also: Sclerosis, Symptom, Lateral Sclerosis, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Atrophy
  
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