ALS is often referred to as a neurodegenerative disease because it affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home | Mail Online] Reference

Alzheimer's Disease many years later, one of a number of my personal reasons for becoming interested in neurodegenerative disorders.    From Wordnik.com.  [H. Robert Horvitz - Autobiography] Reference

Dr. Blackburn and her team are now exploring the potential role that the enzyme could eventually play in neurodegenerative and other age-related disorders.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-05-01] Reference

This type of marginalization is perpetuated by the phrase in the fundraiser which calls neurodegenerative diseases “crimes.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Once Again, Jail and Bail Fundraisers aren’t cool « Knitting Clio] Reference

As a result, he has been able to expand his basic-science research and think about applying it to the treatment of diseases such as neurodegenerative and autoimmune conditions.    From Wordnik.com.  [China Entices Scientists to Return Home] Reference

Resveratrol may aid in the prevention of age-related disorders, such as neurodegenerative diseases, inflammation, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific Blogging] Reference

But there is some evidence to suggest that the process may sometimes become too aggressive, and may lead to problems such as neurodegenerative diseases and diabetes.    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition] Reference

Antioxidant treatment could be vital in treating other types of severe infection and in chronic non-infectious conditions such as neurodegenerative diseases too, he added.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daily News & Analysis] Reference

But smell and a neurodegenerative problem is linked.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 24, 2007] Reference

My young son has an incurable neurodegenerative disorder.    From Wordnik.com.  [James Love: People vs the Authors Guild, don't turn off text to speech in Kindle 2] Reference

It's no wonder why the US leads the world in neurodegenerative diseases.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dr. M.J. Wegmann: 13 Foods To Avoid] Reference

When damage persists and accumulates, neurodegenerative disease may result.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jill Stein and Ted Schettler: Reducing The Risk of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Diseases] Reference

The 52-year-old had ALS, a progressive, usually fatal, neurodegenerative disease.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kevorkian: The Right to Die and Other 9th Amendment Freedoms] Reference

In illnesses categorized as neurodegenerative diseases, there is "a wasting of the brain.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Marcia G. Yerman: If It's Not Alzheimer's Disease or Parkinson's Disease, It May Be NPH] Reference

In conclusion, Ghika calls for a change in the way we think of neurodegenerative diseases.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dan Agin: Alzheimer's Disease and Darwinian Evolution: Is There a Connection?] Reference

The idea that neurodegenerative dementia may have something to do with evolution is not new.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dan Agin: Alzheimer's Disease and Darwinian Evolution: Is There a Connection?] Reference

These findings could help patients with memory-impairing neurodegenerative diseases avoid dementia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Periscope] Reference

Alzheimer's is a neurodegenerative disorder affecting up to one-third of people who reach the age of 80.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gene Shows Promise for Alzheimer's] Reference

In some cases the disorder was detected up to 50 years before the neurodegenerative condition developed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dr. Michael J. Breus: Sleep Disorder Linked to Risk of Dementia] Reference

You're a doctor presented with a patient suffering from an advanced, untreated neurodegenerative disease.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Speculist: Future Healing] Reference

As you know, Heidi, a lot of people know, Alzheimer's is this sort of progressive neurodegenerative problem.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 11, 2008] Reference

His practice is devoted almost solely to research and treatment of autism and other neurodegenerative disorders.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 27, 2008] Reference

It is a tragic, neurodegenerative disorder that steals the wisdom, the memories and the essence of an individual.    From Wordnik.com.  [Carolyn Anderson: Keeping Our Wits About Us Into the Golden Years] Reference

If this new idea about neurodegenerative diseases pans out, it may make the problem of prevention more tractable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dan Agin: Alzheimer's Disease and Darwinian Evolution: Is There a Connection?] Reference

The neurodegenerative disease is said to affect seven people in 100,000, but experts believe the proportion is higher.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fear of insurance penalties keeps Huntington's sufferers in the shadows] Reference

"There couldn't be a better review tool than reading up on metabolic diseases and neurodegenerative disorders," he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [This Doctor Makes 'House' Calls] Reference

It is logical to assume that the risks of associated neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative diseases will rise as well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deirdre Imus: Is Your Baby Crawling On Carpet Made Of Coal Ash?] Reference

Iplex is available in Italy for Lou Gehrig's disease, a fatal neurodegenerative disease, under an expanded access program.    From Wordnik.com.  [FDA Allows Use of Drug for ALS] Reference

Huntington's is a neurodegenerative disorder which affects muscle co-ordination and leads to cognitive decline and dementia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fear of insurance penalties keeps Huntington's sufferers in the shadows] Reference

Nothing about the FDA which still approves it, despite a mountain of evidence of neurodegenerative harm that aspartame causes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hawaii Senate Health Committee "Defers" Bill to Ban Aspartame, thus killing it for 2008!] Reference

In November, doctors in Oregon injected them into a child with a rare, fatal neurodegenerative disorder called Batten disease.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stem Cells Are Where It's At] Reference

This suggests, they say, that low vitamin D may be uniquely linked to Parkinson's rather than to neurodegenerative diseases in general.    From Wordnik.com.  [Study illuminates link between Parkinson's and vitamin D] Reference

Treats chorea, the involuntary muscle movements that occur in Huntington's disease, a neurodegenerative disease affecting 30,000 Americans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Push to Cure Rare Diseases] Reference

It's a neurodegenerative disease, basically characterized by the formation of plaque, these neurofibrillary plaques entangles in the brain.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 11, 2008] Reference

Already a pioneer in fetal surgery, the hospital will research children's cancer and neurodegenerative diseases, among other areas, he says.    From Wordnik.com.  [UCSF to Get $100 Million for Hospital] Reference

To test this, researchers presented the lyrics of 40 children's songs to 13 Alzheimer's patients and to 14 adults with no history of neurodegenerative disease.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Acupuncture May Work] Reference

"If the industry came up with a treatment for this chronic neurodegenerative disease, it would be a massive blockbuster but no one wants to do it alone," she says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Widow Gives $2.5 Million for Parkinson's Research] Reference

The weakening or elimination of circuits can lead to memory loss, which occurs normally with aging but is accelerated in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's.    From Wordnik.com.  [How the Mind Works: Revelations] Reference

Coal processing is also a major contributor to the nation's epidemic of neurodegenerative conditions in children and adults, such as compromised intellectual capacities and even.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Coal Industry's Unabated War on Americans' Health] Reference