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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 which 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:

  • incidence is thought to be 2 in 100,000 per year;
  • prevalence thought to be 7 in 100,000;
  • estimated number of people with MND in the UK is approximately five thousand.

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Medical text written August 2005 by Dr Brian Dickie PhD, Director of Research Development, MND Association, Northampton, UK.

 

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