Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) is a degenerative disease that affects the neurons responsible for voluntary muscle control. Motor neurons are responsible for movement and to cause movement need to receive electrochemical messages from the brain and spinal cord(the central nervous system). When the brain sends a message to the rest of your body telling it how to move, the message first starts in the brain. These neurons in the brain, called upper neurons, then send the message to the spinal…

In the year 2012, a woman named Susan Hammack died of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) otherwise known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease. She passed away at age 64 and ended up being diagnosed 2 and a half years prior. Hammack’s disease got to the point of hospice in her own home and put on a medical respirator to help her breath. Many of her symptoms included: twitching or cramping muscles, slurred speech or trouble projecting her voice, loss of motor skills in hands and arms, tripping and falling,…

Some experiments were aimed at finding how SOD1 becomes pro-apoptotic (promoting programmed cell death) due to the fact that healthy SOD1 are against programmed cell death (Pasinelli et al. 2004). The pro-apoptotic characteristic of mutant SOD1 is demonstrated in vivo and in vitro. The mitochondria inside cells firmly control apoptosis, and the mutant SOD1 that aggregates inside mitochondria triggers the programmed cell death of motor neurons (Pasinelli et al. 2004). One experiment studied…

With every intention to move, the victim has no control over the body’s muscles, for not a single finger is lifted nor a smile displayed. Such a disease does exist and has affected many lives worldwide. This awful illness is named ALS, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, a progressive neurodegenerative disease. With many diseases in the world, countless terrible ones are unknown like CTE, Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, which is also a progressive neurodegenerative disease. Multiple patients have…

Encephalopathy and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis being found in the majority of athletes. As a whole, people are not seeing the true effects of athletes are struggling through. When one football game is over, fans continue into the next week and expect the same CTE-ridden athletes to endanger their life. However, this has been a national crisis we all have been blinded to for years. Changing the regulations of the game for the greater good is necessary and needs to happen quickly. Amyotrophic…

ALS is a disease that progressively affect the nerves in the brain and in the spinal cord. Many people known it as the Lou Gehrig’s disease but its official name is Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis. Lou Gehrig was a hall of fame baseball player who was diagnosed with ALS in the 1930s. (Figure2). Before he was diagnosed Mr. Gehrig started notes systems when he was having trouble tying he’s shoe laces and when he was on the baseball field. According to ALSA.org, “Based on U.S. population studies, a…

than usual, and he was fumbling the ball. On June 19, 1939, he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) on his thirty-sixth birthday. In the same year, Lou Gehrig retired from baseball, still considering himself to be the luckiest man alive and having a lot to live and be thankful for. Two years later he gave in to the disease and died on the second of June in 1941. Later, amyotropic lateral sclerosis came to be known as Lou Gehrig’s disease in America. Another notable person with…

the U.S. per year (“Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis” Human Diseases and Conditions 79).…

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, better yet known as A.L.S is a rare, worldwide disease. This neurodegenerative disease can affect any one. Although terminal, it is possible for one to still yet appreciate the rest of their days in life. Dudley Clendinen expresses this in his article "The Good Short Life". Reporter and Editor, Clendinen published this article July of 2011. Like all his other work, it was placed in "The New York Times." Dudley Clendinen lived his last years with A.L.S. The tone of…

The Ice Bucket started in Sarasota, Florida with a student named Chris Kennedy. He was nominated by a friend of his to participate, which in that time had nothing to do with the ALS Association. Participants on that time were choosing their own charity donations. Chris friend decided and choice a charity that was going to benefit a young child with cancer closed to the area. From there Kennedy passed the challenge along, he selected the ALS charity because he knew a relative was passing through…