Talk:Motor neurone disease
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First and Second, or Upper and Lower
How often (and whereabouts) are they called first and second motor neurons? Isn't upper and lower MNs much more common. I hate to quote the google test... so i won't. -T 05:56, 11 Apr 2004 (UTC)
- The international support organization uses the abbreviation ALS/MND to refer to the disease.
To which disease? The first paragraph taught us that MND refers to a whole group of diseases, of which ALS is only one member (even though Americans use the term "ALS" for the whole group). So what exactly is ALS/MND? The whole group or just one member? Also, does "Lou Gehrig's disease" refer to the whole group or just to the specific member? AxelBoldt 15:22, 1 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Is appears that in the US, ALS is used to cover all of the conditions that are elsewhere known as MND and that a number of conditions can be characterrised as MND. What specific variety of MND Lou Gerhig had I have no idea, but I would guess it is likely to be ALS given that ALS is the more common name for the conditions in the US. See http://www.alsmndalliance.org/whatis.html. Mintguy (T) 16:52, 1 Jul 2004 (UTC)
This article should be upgraded with a more natural language. This is a dictionary for everyone not purely a reference for specialists and medical scientists. I have a fealing that many of the strange scientific words could be replaced using dayily language words. If no such word exist one could give a short explanation in the text on most of theese words (preferrably not just in separate articles).
Does this article need moving?
Everywhere in the article, the condition is referred to as "Motor Neurone Disease" (note caps) and yet the title doesn't feature such capitalization. The other one is currently a redirect, but is that the right way around? - Vague | Rant 12:42, Dec 15, 2004 (UTC)
MMA
> MMA removed as not strictly speaking an MND.
How/Why is MMA "not strictly speaking an MND"?
> Monomelic amyotrophy (MMA) a variant of motor neuron disease
AHands 05:48, 24 May 2005 (UTC)
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