Being able to target their effects could lead to better drugs to treat alzheimer 's and perhaps other diseases that destroy brain cells like strokes and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis , also know as als or lou gehrig 's disease .
Labs are using such cells to study amyotrophic lateral sclerosis , parkinson 's disease , huntington 's disease , and even autism .
实验室通过这些细胞来研究肌萎缩性脊髓侧索硬化、帕金森氏症、亨廷顿氏病,甚至自闭症。
Hawking has als , or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis , which has confined him to a wheelchair and leaves him unable to speak without the help of a computerized voice synthesizer .
Brain decoding may also help engineers develop accurate and portable communication devices for people who have lost the ability to speak due to debilitating neurodegenerative diseases , such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ( als ) .
Strokes and spinal cord injuries can quickly disconnect parts of the brain that initiate movement with the nerves and muscles that execute it , and neurodegenerative disorders such as parkinson 's disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ( als ) draw the process out to the same effect .