Representatives from the Irish Motor Neurone Disease Research Team recently attened the 9th Meeting of the European Network for the Cure of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis in Hannover, Germany.

Some Presentations from the group are listed here -

Dr. Susan Byrne:Epidemiology of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis in the island of Ireland from 2005 – 2010

Mr. Kevin Kenna:  Using ALS pathways to uncover the genetic basis of disease within the Irish population

Dr.Marwa Elamin:  The Spectrum of Behavioural Abnormalities in ALS Patients and its Correlates

Poster Presentations by the group can be view below

1.  The use of a novel geo‐coding technique to look at patient location in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

2.  Proposed Criteria for Familial Amyotriophic Lateral Sclerosis

3.  The CognitiveProfile Of ALS Patients with Comparison of Incident Versus Prevalent Populations

4.  Analysis of the current consensus criteria for the diagnosis of frontotemporal cognitive and behavioural syndromes in

5.  Prioritization of ALS candidate genes through integrative pathway analysis

6.  Targeted high-throughput resequencingof ALS candidate genes

7. Peter - Mri

8. Peter - Palliative Care

9. Peter - Hirayama

Members from the Irish Motor Neurone Research Team recently attended the European ALS Consortium Young Investigator Meeting 2010, held in London.

Some of the presentations from the ANN 2010 can be viewed here

Congratulations to the Multidisciplinary Team from Beaumont Hospital who held a very informative MND Study Day on 23-01/2010

Presentations from the 20th ALS/MND Symposium