The family of Bruce Willis recently revealed that the actor has been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia, or FTD. While you’ve likely heard of dementia and associate the health condition with...
Few treatments exist for neurodegenerative diseases that progressively rob a person’s ability to move and think, yet the results of a new study is opening additional approaches for exploration.
90 to 95 percent of ALS cases are "sporadic", meaning these patients had no clear family history of the condition, and therefore no indication that they were at risk. A...
Scientists report a significant step toward combatting two degenerative brain diseases that chip away at an individual’s ability to move, and think. A targeted therapy developed by scientists at University...
University of Utah neurologists Stefan Pulst, M.D., and Summer Gibson, M.D., are authors on a collaborative, multi-institutional study published in the journal Science. The research identifies mutations in a gene...
ALS is life‑changing, but new treatments, specialized care, and innovative research are bringing real hope. See how advances at University of Utah Health are shaping the future of ALS care.
Kayla’s ALS diagnosis came fast and unexpectedly. Now, the ALS Clinic at University of Utah Health is helping her navigate each step with coordinated care and a therapy designed for...
