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Motor Neurone disease
Background
The description of motor neurone disease (MND) is given to a group of closely related conditions where degeneration of the motor neurones (nerve cells that control muscles) in the brain and spinal cords causes progressive muscular wasting and weakness.
Precise figures of the incidence and prevalence of MND are not certain: