• Question: What is a motor neuron disease?

    Asked by ScienceGuy to Ali on 14 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Alison Thomson

      Alison Thomson answered on 14 Nov 2014:

      Great question! It’s a type of disease that causes people’s motor neurones to get sick and die.
      Motor neurones are the nerves that give your muscles instructions, so if you had MND your muscles would get progressively weaker as more motor neurones die.
      It’s a horrible disease that we don’t have a cure for yet, but hopefully we’ll find one soon!

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