ALS

See media highlights stemming from Jan. 18's Norman Fixel Institute for Neurological Diseases at UF Health gift announcement.

Funds will help launch institute at UF Health for Parkinson’s and other neurodegenerative diseases.

MBI members discuss how the service and science hub specialty care model is working at the Fixel Center.

A new blood test could reveal the genetic roots of muscular dystrophy, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and other disorders caused by the expansion of DNA repeats.

Following legendary physicist Stephen Hawking’s passing after battling ALS for more than 50 years, Dr. James Wymer discusses this unforgiving disease.

Chronic neurological diseases — Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, dystonia, ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease), Huntington’s disease, neuromuscular disease, multiple sclerosis and epilepsy, to mention only a few — afflict millions of Americans worldwide and account for tremendous morbidity and mortality. Furthermore, age is the largest risk factor for many…