Motor Neuron Disease
Motor neuron disease is a very common disease. It kills people all around the world! Here are some information about it.
What is Motor Neuron Disease?
Motor neuron disease (MND) is a disease that affects the motor neurons in your brain and spine. These affect our everyday movements like moving, breathing, swallowing and speaking. Many famous people have had this disease and have died with it, the most famous person living with MND today is Stephen Hawking.
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Statistics
MND is an adults disease and is very uncommon to form in people under the age of 30. In 2006, 1300 people suffered from MND. MND kills a large number of people. How it Impairs the Body
MND attacks the motor neurons in the brain and spine (the neurons that control our movements). Because of this, MND sufferers do not use their muscles as much and the muscle cells waste away so it makes it harder to move. 
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Symptoms
Symptoms of MND are usually seen at the ages between the ages of 50-70. The symptoms include: slurred speech, pain, stiff joints, breathing problems, muscle cramps and spasms, bowel problems, saliva and mucous, coughing and much more.
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Treatments
To treat MND, patients have to take a drug called “riluzole” to live longer. To stop the pain, MND sufferers need a variety of health specialists like neurologists, speech-language pathologists, specialist nurses psychologists, etc.
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Cures and Preventions
MND has no cure but there is research going on to help us find out the causes of it and try to find a cure. You can go to the MND website for more information. 
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Lee Ness | Oct 1, 2009 | Reply
Hi I saw this on 60 minutes.
Very good write and the pictures explain a lot
Thank you for sharing and get us people aware of this
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raman13 | Oct 1, 2009 | Reply
Great Work
Interesting
Best Regards
Darkplanner | Oct 2, 2009 | Reply
Very Interesting.
And nicely written.
Avaxier | Oct 2, 2009 | Reply
Very nice information! I didn’t know about this at all. Thanks for sharing!
Ruby Hawk | Oct 2, 2009 | Reply
Interesting and informative information. Lets hope a cure will eventually be found.
fishfry aka Elizabeth Figueroa | Oct 2, 2009 | Reply
I have never seen or heard of this Motor Neuron Disease, but it can’t be easy to have, or to have to care for someone with this disease.
Awesome Article,, very informative.
shadow of force | Oct 3, 2009 | Reply
Great work, good article, you definitely do a lot of research
Mr Ghaz | Oct 4, 2009 | Reply
Motor neuron disease..Never heard before..Thanks for the information..Its very helpful..A great article..Thanks for sharing this wonderful piece:-)
CA Johnson | Oct 6, 2009 | Reply
I have never heard of Motor Neuron Disease. I want to thank you for taking the time to give us the information about such a painful disease.
LOVELY HONEY | Oct 6, 2009 | Reply
very interesting
two of my very well known friends
died of MND and there is no cure
its a marvel
HAWKINS IS STILL ALIVE PERHAPS HIS BRAIN HAS NOT BEEN DAMAGED HIS MIND EVEN WITH MND
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is like EINSTEINS GREAT MAN
I have great regards for him
thanks for the wonderful write up