Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis in Veterans: Review of the ...
Institute Of Medicine / Board On Population Health And Public He / Committee on the Review of the Scientifi
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) our Lou Gehrig's disease is a fatal, mostly non-familial disease that affects the nervous system of humans by causing the degeneration of nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord. The degeneration halts communication between the nervous system and voluntary muscles in the body. This leads to muscle paralysis and eventually the muscles that aid in breathing are affect, causing respiration to fail. The disease...