A CUMBRIAN dad living with motor neurone disease was among 100 people to walk 12km to raise awareness of the disease.

Motor neuron diseases are a group of neurodegenerative disorders, including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and progressive bulbar palsy. ALS, also referred to as Lou Gehrig's disease, is the ...

Introduction This study investigated factors contributing to failure of domiciliary non-invasive ventilation (NIV) in patients with Motor Neurone Disease (MND), including a cohort of patients with ...

Craig Hamilton was diagnosed with Progressive Bulbar Palsy – a rarer type of MND which affects the muscles used for speech and swallowing first – in December. The 56-year-old, who owns an art ...

The 56-year-old has been diagnosed with Progressive Bulbar Palsy – a rarer type of MND which affects the muscles used for speech and swallowing first. Crag Hamilton outside his art studio in ...

Abstract The pioneers of neurology in Japan were professors Hiroshi Kawahara and Kinnosuke Miura. Kawahara published the first description of progressive bulbar palsy and wrote the first neurology ...

His greatest academic contribution was the pioneering description of a family illness called "progressive bulbar palsy", in 1897. 14 The disease is today defined as X-linked recessive bulbar-spinal ...

Motor neurone disease (progressive bulbar palsy and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) is characterized by progressive degeneration of the corticospinal tracts, anterior horn cells, and/or bulbar ...

Progressive bulbar palsy manifests as wasting of the tongue muscles, weakness of throat muscles and difficulty swallowing, inability to speak, and weak jaw and face muscles.

Progressive Bulbar Palsy Progressive bulbar palsy involves a slow degeneration of certain cells in the brainstem, which contains the cranial nerves that control the face, tongue, and throat. As a ...

Motor neuron diseases are a group of progressive and ultimately fatal neurodegenerative disorders of the motor system, includeing amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, primary lateral sclerosis, progressive ...