Structural and functional investigation of motor and extra-motor involvement in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: neuroimaging, neurophysiological and neuropsychological associations

  • Christidi, Foteini
  • Χρηστίδη, Φωτεινή
Publication date
January 2016
Publisher
National Documentation Centre (EKT)

Abstract

Background: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is the most fatal and major diagnostic category of motor neuron diseases and is characterized by involvement of both the upper (central) motor neuron and lower (peripheral) motor neuron resulting in patient’s death three to five years from the time of diagnosis, mainly because of respiratory insufficiency. The traditional view of ALS as a pure motor disease with any extra-motor involvement being described only in frontal areas and characterized by mild executive dysfunction or behavioral changes according to the ALS-Frontotemporal Dementia (FTD) continuum, has been totally updated. ALS is now regarded as multi-systematic disease with change within and beyond the primary motor cortex, the corti...

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