Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: translating genetic discoveries into therapies

F Akçimen, ER Lopez, JE Landers, A Nath… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Recent advances in sequencing technologies and collaborative efforts have led to
substantial progress in identifying the genetic causes of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) …

ALS genetics, mechanisms, and therapeutics: where are we now?

R Mejzini, LL Flynn, IL Pitout, S Fletcher… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The scientific landscape surrounding amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) continues to shift
as the number of genes associated with the disease risk and pathogenesis, and the cellular …

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis-frontotemporal spectrum disorder (ALS-FTSD): Revised diagnostic criteria

MJ Strong, S Abrahams, LH Goldstein… - … lateral sclerosis and …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
This article presents the revised consensus criteria for the diagnosis of frontotemporal
dysfunction in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) based on an international research …

Hereditary spastic paraplegia: an update

A Meyyazhagan, A Orlacchio - International Journal of Molecular …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP) is a rare neurodegenerative disorder with the
predominant clinical manifestation of spasticity in the lower extremities. HSP is categorised …

The changing scene of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

W Robberecht, T Philips - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2013 - nature.com
Several recent breakthroughs have provided notable insights into the pathogenesis of
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), with some even shifting our thinking about this …

Gene discovery in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: implications for clinical management

A Al-Chalabi, LH Van Den Berg, J Veldink - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2017 - nature.com
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disease predominantly affecting
upper and lower motor neurons. The disease leads to relentlessly progressive weakness of …

The role of sex and sex hormones in neurodegenerative diseases

E Vegeto, A Villa, S Della Torre, V Crippa… - Endocrine …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Neurodegenerative diseases (NDs) are a wide class of disorders of the central nervous
system (CNS) with unknown etiology. Several factors were hypothesized to be involved in …

Hereditary spastic paraplegia: clinico-pathologic features and emerging molecular mechanisms

JK Fink - Acta neuropathologica, 2013 - Springer
Hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP) is a syndrome designation describing inherited
disorders in which lower extremity weakness and spasticity are the predominant symptoms …

Clinical genetics of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: what do we really know?

PM Andersen, A Al-Chalabi - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2011 - nature.com
Hereditary amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) encompasses a group of genetic disorders
characterized by adult-onset loss of the lower and upper motor neuron systems, often with …

Molecular pathways of motor neuron injury in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

L Ferraiuolo, J Kirby, AJ Grierson, M Sendtner… - Nature Reviews …, 2011 - nature.com
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a genetically diverse disease. At least 15 ALS-
associated gene loci have so far been identified, and the causative gene is known in …