7-13-12: Impacting the Mechanics Behind ALS

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If you’ve listened to this program regularly over the past year and a half, you know we’ve talked a lot about the neurodegenerative disease ALS, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.  Every two weeks, Tom Hall spoke with the writer Dudley Clendinen, who was diagnosed in November 2010.  Dudley died in May. 

Dudley’s doctor was Dr. Jeffrey Rothstein.  He’s a professor of neurology at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, the Director of the Brain Science Institute, and the Director of the Robert Packard Center for ALS Research at Hopkins.  He led a team of researchers that has published an article in the current issue of the journal Nature that describes a new understanding of how certain cells in the brain work, and what that might mean for our understanding of ALS. 

Tom Hall talks about the new research with Jeff Rothstein.