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sounds like your upper neurons were largely unaffected then for some reason they seem to be the most important ones since they are in the brain and control speech swallow and legs, the lower are in the spine. any theories to why you made it for so long? i think i have pre-als symptoms now, any advice for me?

Amazing!

Curagious .

Are you on a vent

Hi how are you what are you doing that helped

There is hardly a cure for anything so why would there be a cure for this? People need to stop playing into the hands of the medical industry

It’s Justin

thx. how is it going so far?

Actually everones mnd is different

Just because this 1 is bad, doesn't mean it's the worst. There's other's way worst. There's 1 disease in particular that can't be tested for because there's no way to test it but people that suffer from it will get full body burn pain, described as being burned alive. The disease is so bad that everyone that's suffered from it has taken their own life due to there being no way to treat the pain of being boiled alive. (I forgot the disease name but im sure you can easily find it)

​@@californiadoll6273nope, it's just you who "knows it".

stay strong, a lot of positive stuff happening right now!

My father too :(

@@SanPot123 I am so sorry, how is your father doing?

Yes,ALS and MND are interchangeably used

Ramachandran Sankararaman thank you

ALS is subtype of motor neuron disease.

We R aye stupid worthless people in the Unized stats

Justin is a legend. I had him in my class in Yr.7 in 1986. I left that school at the end of '86 to go to Newcastle Uni. I never forgot this mature, tallish year 7 kid who spoke to me about basketball. I went to his funeral at Wollongong Uni and bought his book. A fantastic read.

If that’s a stupid question I apologise. It’s a genuine question - genuinely stupid question?

​@aliciam6725 I have expertise in AI but not neuroscience. I lost my father to MND. There is a possibility for AI, more formally Machine Learning and Deep Learning to assist in this space, indeed it already is. The biggest challenge is that these techniques thrive on data and MND, compared to other neurological conditions, is relatively sparse in data. But this is improving over time! Expect drug discovery and gene detection being low hanging fruit for these techniques, as well as using AI for earlier assisted diagnosis (critically important in MND) as well as the numerous ways that AI can assist patients with loss of function (e.g predictive text, speech to text, predictive sensors etc.)

What are you talking about? That's literally his biological sister who was worried.