Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: improving care with a multidisciplinary approach

A Hogden, G Foley, RD Henderson… - Journal of …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease, leading to
death within an average of 2–3 years. A cure is yet to be found, and a single disease …

Cognitive, emotional and psychological manifestations in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis at baseline and overtime: a review

S Benbrika, B Desgranges, F Eustache… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
It is now well recognized that, in addition to motor impairment, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
(ALS) may cause extra-motor clinical signs and symptoms. These can include the alteration …

Prevalence of depression among amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patients: A systematic review and meta-analysis

ME Heidari, J Nadali, A Parouhan, M Azarafraz… - Journal of affective …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) people have a high risk of severe mental
disorders, like depression, which impacts their function, quality of life, and mobility. However …

The impact of cognitive and behavioral symptoms on ALS patients and their caregivers

J Caga, S Hsieh, P Lillo, K Dudley, E Mioshi - Frontiers in neurology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Previously thought to be a pure motor disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is now
established as multisystem neurodegenerative disorder that lies on a continuum with …

Sleep disorders and respiratory function in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

RM Ahmed, REA Newcombe, AJ Piper, SJ Lewis… - Sleep medicine …, 2016 - Elsevier
Sleep disorders in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) present a significant challenge to the
management of patients. Issues include the maintenance of adequate ventilatory status …

Hastening the diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

H Mitsumoto, EJ Kasarskis, Z Simmons - Neurology, 2022 - AAN Enterprises
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a chronic progressive neurodegenerative disease.
Neurologists generally see patients as requested and as schedules allow. This practice is …

Depression in ALS in a large self-reporting cohort

NJ Thakore, EP Pioro - Neurology, 2016 - AAN Enterprises
Objective: To report an observational study of depression in a large cohort of patients with
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), including its prevalence, associations, longitudinal …

Neural mechanisms of psychosis vulnerability and perceptual abnormalities in the ALS‐FTD spectrum

EM Devenney, S Tu, J Caga, RM Ahmed… - Annals of Clinical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Objective The aims of this study were to (i) explore psychotic experiences across the entire
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis‐frontotemporal dementia (ALS‐FTD) spectrum from a clinical …

Motor neuron disease-frontotemporal dementia: a clinical continuum

E Devenney, S Vucic, JR Hodges… - Expert review of …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Overlap between motor neuron disease (MND) and frontotemporal dementia (FTD) occurs at
clinical, genetic and pathological levels, and has been recently strengthened through the …

Frontotemporal dysfunction and dementia in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

SC Woolley, MJ Strong - Neurologic clinics, 2015 - neurologic.theclinics.com
The classic description of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) has little to do with the
presence of neuropsychological dysfunction, and instead focuses largely on the motor …