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Jun 2023
53m 33s

#63 Motor Neurone Disease

Sam Williams
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Dr Alex Thompson, honorary consultant neurologist at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, joins Sam for today's episode looking at motor neurone disease in PACES. We talk through the history, examination signs, differential diagnoses, investigations and management of this condition and Alex gives us an insight into his current research looking at treating this condition.


04:00 Basics of MND:

13:00 Presenting symptoms

21:30 Examination

27:15 DDx

36:35 Investigations

40:50 - Management


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