A Jacksonville woman's experience caring for her husband with ALS has formed a foundation to help other families fighting ...

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that causes the gradual loss of motor neurons in the brain and spinal cord, leading to muscle weakness, paralysis, and ...

Stone will be joining Dane — whom she has been friends with "for a long time" — on the long-awaited third season of the HBO ...

In the beginning, not even Hynek Wichterle's postdoc thought his idea to slow the progression of amyotrophic lateral ...

Long-term exposure to sulfur dioxide, an air pollutant generated by the burning of fossil fuels, increases the risk of ALS, a ...

A new discovery about mutations in a gene that causes ALS may allow researchers to design targeted therapies, a study found.

Answer ALS, in collaboration with ALS Therapy Development Institute (ALS TDI) and Augie's Quest, today announced plans to ...

New advances in brain-computer interface (BCI) technology may make speech for those who've lost the ability to do easier than ...

A brain-computer interface has enabled people with paralysis to turn their thoughts directly into words, requiring less ...

In a recent study, scientists successfully decoded not only the words people tried to say but the words they merely imagined saying.

Four people living with severe paralysis, caused by conditions including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and brainstem stroke, took part in the trial. One participant could only respond ...

In that moment, things clicked. A year ago, my father died after an absolutely brutal battle with amyotrophic lateral ...