A progressive disease that involves degeneration of the motor neurons and wasting of the muscles.
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Studies have shown that consumption of some species of cassava as a staple diet could lead to chronic health problems such as nutritional neuropathies, endemic goitre and upper motor neuron disease.
He is a committed Christian who since contracting motor neuron disease has been keen to try to alleviate the suffering of everyone with the condition.
When I got worse, it was determined that I also had a ‘nonspecific motor neuron disease.’
To date these abnormalities are manifest in rheumatoid arthritis, as well as in the neurological diseases Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, motor neuron disease, and autism.
She wants to die before motor neuron disease stops her heart.
Multiple sclerosis and motor neuron disease were two conditions defined clinically by him, and also defined pathologically.
In Britain it is usually called motor neuron disease.
Quite naturally he is most keen to help charities dealing with physical disability and in particular motor neuron disease.
The embryonic stem cells that we derive in this way will only be used for research into motor neuron disease.
The next step for McKay was to ask his father for some land to secure a loan of £100,000 to develop communication aid software for people with disabilities such as motor neuron disease and cerebral palsy.
Pat battled against motor neuron disease for a few years before finally succumbing to it.
Wilmut's team applied for a cloning research license in September 2004 to learn more about motor neuron disease.
Now the scientist who is crippled by a motor neuron disease says he was wrong.