Today is World ALS Day. About 1500 Dutch people are currently living with this muscle disease, which causes patients to become increasingly paralyzed. How does ALS develop and what are the symptoms? Jeroen Pasterkamp, neuroscientist at the UMC Utrecht Brain Center, talks about this condition. “ALS is currently incurable, but great strides have been made in treatment in recent years.”
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How does muscle disease ALS develop? Expert explains: ‘Seems to be more common among (top) athletes’
